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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) said by 1882 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“There is nothing settled in manners, but the laws of behaviour yield to the energy of the individual.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) said by 1882 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“And with Cæsar to take in his hand the army, the empire, and Cleopatra, and say, "All these will I relinquish if you will show me the fountain of the Nile.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) said by 1882 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I find the Englishman to be him of all men who stands firmest in his shoes.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) said by 1882 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I rarely read any Latin, Greek, German, Italian, sometimes not a French book, in the original, which I can procure in a good version. I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven. I should as soon think of swimming across Charles River when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in originals when I have them rendered for me in my mother tongue.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) said by 1882 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“When Shakespeare is charged with debts to his authors, Landor replies, "Yet he was more original than his originals. He breathed upon dead bodies and brought them into life.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) said by 1882 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The passages of Shakespeare that we most prize were never quoted until within this century.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) said by 1882 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force; that thoughts rule the world.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) said by 1882 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I do not find that the age or country makes the least difference; no, nor the language the actors spoke, nor the religion which they professed, whether Arab in the desert or Frenchman in the Academy. I see that sensible men and conscientious men all over the world were of one religion.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) said by 1882 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source