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Ralph Waldo Emerson, né le 25 mai 1803 à Boston et mort le 27 avril 1882 à Concord , est un essayiste, philosophe et poète américain, chef de file du mouvement transcendantaliste américain du début du XIXe siècle. Wikipedia  

✵ 25. mai 1803 – 27. avril 1882   •   Autres noms Ральф Эмерсон
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“Qu’est-ce qu’une herbe? Une plante dont les vertus n’ont pas encore été découvertes […].”

La Destinée de la République (Fortune of the Republic), 1878

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Citations en anglais

“A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.”

20 June 1831 http://books.google.com/books?id=jJZaAAAAMAAJ&q="A+sect+or+party+is+an+elegant+incognito+devised+to+save+a+man+from+the+vexation+of+thinking"&pg=PA386#v=onepage
1820s, Journals (1822–1863)

“Good is a good doctor, but Bad is sometimes a better.”

Considerations by the Way
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Variante: Good is a good doctor, but Bad is sometimes a better.

“Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous.”

Source: 1830s, Nature http://www.emersoncentral.com/nature.htm (1836), Ch. 3, Beauty

“Every hero becomes a bore at last.”

Uses of Great Men
1850s, Representative Men (1850)

“Genius is always sufficiently the enemy of genius by over influence.”

1830s, The American Scholar http://www.emersoncentral.com/amscholar.htm (1837)

“Out from the heart of Nature rolled
The burdens of the Bible old.”

St. 2
1840s, Poems (1847), The Problem http://www.emersoncentral.com/poems/problem.htm

“The faith that stands on authority is not faith.”

The Over-soul
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“The manly part is to do with might and main what you can do.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson livre The Conduct of Life

The Conduct of Life, Wealth
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“What potent blood hath modest May!”

May-Day
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“The next thing to saying a good thing yourself, is to quote one”

This sentence has no known source in Emerson's works, but its general sense does closely match the tenor of Emerson's essay "Quotation and Originality", in particular the sentence "Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it." (listed above).
Gow, Foundations for Human Engineering (1931) contains the following passage: "I have the backing of Emerson, for it was he, I believe, who said that the next thing to saying a good thing yourself, if to quote one". It is not clear whether Gow is purporting to quote Emerson verbatim, or merely to paraphrase his work.
Disputed

“The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men round to his opinion twenty years later.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson livre The Conduct of Life

Culture http://books.google.com/books?id=uVYRAAAAYAAJ&q="The+measure+of+a+master+is+his+success+in+bringing+all+men+round+to+his+opinion+twenty+years+later"&pg=PA157#v=onepage
1860s, The Conduct of Life (1860)

“Every really able man, in whatever direction he work,—a man of large affairs, an inventor, a statesman, an orator, a poet, a painter,—if you talk sincerely with him, considers his work, however much admired, as far short of what it should be.”

Immortality
1870s, Society and Solitude (1870), Books, Letters and Social Aims http://www.rwe.org/comm/index.php?option=com_content&task=category&sectionid=5&id=74&Itemid=149 (1876)

“None shall rule but the humble,
And none but Toil shall have.”

Boston Hymn. 1863
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Life is our dictionary.”

1830s, The American Scholar http://www.emersoncentral.com/amscholar.htm (1837)

“All mankind love a lover.”

Love
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Essays, First Series

“A man is a god in ruins.”

Source: 1830s, Nature http://www.emersoncentral.com/nature.htm (1836), Ch. 8, Prospects

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