Ральф Уолдо Эмерсон: Цитаты на английском языке (страница 4)
Ральф Уолдо Эмерсон было американский эссеист, поэт, философ, пастор, общественный деятель. Цитаты на английском языке.“A great man is always willing to be little.”
1840s, Essays: First Series (1841), Compensation
Контексте: Our strength grows out of our weakness. The indignation which arms itself with secret forces does not awaken until we are pricked and stung and sorely assailed. A great man is always willing to be little. Whilst he sits on the cushion of advantages, he goes to sleep. When he is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something; he has been put on his wits, on his manhood; he has gained facts; learns his ignorance; is cured of the insanity of conceit; has got moderation and real skill. The wise man throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to find his weak point. The wound cicatrizes and falls off from him like a dead skin, and when they would triumph, lo! he has passed on invulnerable. Blame is safer than praise. I hate to be defended in a newspaper. As long as all that is said is said against me, I feel a certain assurance of success. But as soon as honeyed words of praise are spoken for me, I feel as one that lies unprotected before his enemies. In general, every evil to which we do not succumb is a benefactor.
11 November 1842
1820s, Journals (1822–1863)
Источник: Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, with Annotations - 1841-1844
1840s, Essays: First Series (1841), Art
Вариант: Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
Источник: Emerson's Essays
Контексте: Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not. The best of beauty is a finer charm than skill in surfaces, in outlines, or rules of art can ever teach, namely, a radiation from the work of art of human character, — a wonderful expression through stone, or canvas, or musical sound, of the deepest and simplest attributes of our nature, and therefore most intelligible at last to those souls which have these attributes.
“Our chief want in life, is somebody who shall make us do what we can.”
Considerations by the Way
1860s, The Conduct of Life (1860)
“Shallow men believe in luck.”
Worship
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.”
The Conduct of Life, Chapter 6, “Worship,” p. 214
1860s, The Conduct of Life (1860)
“Every artist was first an amateur.”
Progress of Culture (see also: Art)
1870s, Society and Solitude (1870), Books, Letters and Social Aims http://www.rwe.org/comm/index.php?option=com_content&task=category§ionid=5&id=74&Itemid=149 (1876)
8 November 1838
1820s, Journals (1822–1863)
Источник: Emerson in His Journals
“It is easy to live for others; everybody does. I call on you to live for yourselves.”
May 3, 1845
1820s, Journals (1822–1863)
Источник: Self-Reliance and Other Essays