Hidden fields
Books Books
" He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others. "
The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Page 6
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903
Full view - About this book

The Complete Idiot's Guide to American Literature

Laurie E. Rozakis - 1999 - 500 pages
...there just wasn't enough meat left on those bones. Thus, a new -ism, trancendentalism, was born. Nature "He is great who is what he is from Nature, and who never reminds us of others." — from Nature When a legacy from his wife's estate granted him financial freedom, Emerson returned...
Limited preview - About this book

Emerson, Thoreau, and the Role of the Cultural Critic

Sam McGuire Worley - 2001 - 196 pages
...individual than a redefinition of the individual's inner nature. Admittedly, lines still turn up like "He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others" and "Man is that noble endogenous plant, which grows, like the palm, from within outward."26 Yet here...
Limited preview - About this book

Civilization's Quotations: Life's Ideal

Richard Alan Krieger - 2007 - 344 pages
...— Publilius Syrus "There is nothing new except what is forgotten." — Mademoiselle Bertin "A man is great who is what he is from nature and who never reminds us of others." — Emerson "Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no other is,...
Limited preview - About this book

Civilization's Quotations: Life's Ideal

Richard Alan Krieger - 2007 - 344 pages
...Panchatantra "To be great is to be misunderstood." — "To be simple is to be great." — "He is great Buxton who is what he is from Nature, and who never reminds us of others." — "Not in one's goals but in one's transitions is a man great." — "No great man ever complains...
Limited preview - About this book

Bildung versus Self-Reliance?: Selbstkultur bei Goethe und Emerson

Philipp Mehne - 2008 - 234 pages
...Individuums bewahren soll. Größe wird von Emerson zunächst als Originalität, als Selbst-Sein definiert: „He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others." (CW 4, 5). Goethe etwa feiert er am Schluss des Buchs als „a manly mind unembarrassed by the variety...
Limited preview - About this book

Quote Unquote (A Handbook of Quotations)

M.P. Singh - 2005 - 324 pages
...could pass personnel." — Paul Goodman "To be great is to be misunderstood." — Ralph Waldo Emerson "He is great who is what he is from Nature, and who never reminds us of others." — Ralph Waldo Emerson "We have, I fear, confused power with greatness." — Stewart Udall "The great...
Limited preview - About this book

Arranging Grief: Sacred Time and the Body in Nineteenth-century America

Dana Luciano - 2007 - 345 pages
...call Lincoln's representativeness. The representative individual, for Ralph Waldo Emerson, was one "who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others," yet who somehow "must be related to us, and our lives receive from him some promise of explanation."3...
Limited preview - About this book

Representations of Death in Nineteenth-century US Writing and Culture

Lucy Elizabeth Frank - 2007 - 258 pages
...his representativeness, in the Emersonian sense. The representative individual, for Emerson, was one 'who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others', yet who somehow 'must be related to us, and our lives receive from him some promise of explanation'...
Limited preview - About this book

Daniel's Texas Medical Journal, Volume 24

Ferdinand Eugene Daniel - 1909 - 602 pages
...more for a wise soul to convey his quality to other men. And everyone can do his best thing easiest. He is great who is what he is from nature and who...to us, and our life receive from him some promise or explanation. I can not tell what I would know, but 1 have observed there are persons who, in their...
Full view - About this book

The Chicago Medical Recorder, Volume 30

1908 - 808 pages
...more for a wise soul to convey his quality to other men. And everyone can do his best thing easiest. He is great who is what he is from nature and who...to. us, and our life receive from him some promise or explanation. I cannot tell what I would know, but I have observed there are persons who, in their...
Full view - About this book




  1. My library
  2. Help
  3. Advanced Book Search
  4. Download EPUB
  5. Download PDF