Ralph Waldo Emerson: Frasi in inglese (pagina 24)

Ralph Waldo Emerson era filosofo, scrittore e saggista statunitense. Frasi in inglese.
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“A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.”

1840s, Essays: First Series (1841), Friendship
Variante: A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud…

“Fear not, then, thou child infirm;
There's no god dare wrong a worm.”

Compensation
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Variante: Fear not, then, thou child infirm;
There's no god dare wrong a worm.

“Olympian bards who sung
Divine ideas below,
Which always find us young
And always keep us so.”

Ode to Beauty
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Variante: Olympian bards who sung
Divine ideas below,
Which always find us young
And always keep us so.

“For what are they all in their high conceit,
When man in the bush with God may meet?”

Good Bye
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Variante: For what are they all in their high conceit,
When man in the bush with God may meet?

“Man Thinking must not be subdued by his instruments.”

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

“Love not the flower they pluck and know it not,
And all their botany is Latin names.”

Blight
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“The heroic cannot be the common, nor can the common be the heroic.”

1870s, Society and Solitude (1870), Quotation and Originality

“Though love repine, and reason chafe,
There came a voice without reply, —
"'Tis man's perdition to be safe,
When for the truth he ought to die."”

Sacrifice
1860s, May-Day and Other Pieces (1867)
Variante: Though love repine, and reason chafe,
There came a voice without reply, —
"'Tis man's perdition to be safe,
When for the truth he ought to die."