I am at a loss to understand why people hold Miss Austen's novels at so high a rate, which seem to me vulgar in tone, sterile in artistic invention, imprisoned in their wretched conventions of English society, without genius, wit, or knowledge of the world. Never was life so pinched and narrow. ... All that interests in any character [is this]: has he (or she) the money to marry with? ... Suicide is more respectable.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Mots clés jane-austen



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A great man is always willing to be little.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Mots clés greatness confidence humility modesty humbleness size



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With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.

Ralph Waldo Emerson


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All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

Ralph Waldo Emerson


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Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Mots clés friends loneliness abandonment visiting



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great is the art

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Mots clés merlin-i



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Every[one] I meet is in some way my superior.

Ralph Waldo Emerson


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People go out to look at sunrises and sunsets who do not recognize their own, quietly and happily, but know that it is foreign to them. As they do by books, so they quote the sunset and the star, and do not make them theirs. Worse yet, they live as foreigners in a world of truth, and quote thoughts, and thus disown them. Quotation confesses inferiority

Ralph Waldo Emerson


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Build therefore your own world.

Ralph Waldo Emerson


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It is not often the worst trait that occasions the loudest outcry. Men complain of their suffering and not of the crime.

Ralph Waldo Emerson


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