Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Topic

Artistic development Artists

Speaker

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source

Progress of Culture

Medium

Speech

Language

English

Time

1867 1860s 19th century

Occupation

Philosopher Writer

From

United States

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Citation

Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "Progress of Culture." Phi Beta Kappa society meeting. 18 July 1867, Cambridge University, Cambridge, England, UK.

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Another quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Standing on the bare ground,—my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space,—all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eye-ball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature

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Topic
Pantheism Interconnectedness of all things

Author

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source
Nature
Language
English
Time
1836 1830s 19th century
Authentication Score 2
Original Citation

Emerson, Ralph Waldo. Nature. Boston: James Munroe and Company, 1836, ch. 1.

Current Citation

Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "Nature." Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays and Lectures. Library of America, 1983, ch. 1.

Another quote from the 1860s

Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.

Susan B. Anthony

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Topic
Women's rights Women's equality Men and women

Author

Susan B. Anthony
Source
The Revolution
Medium
Motto Newspaper
Statement Type
Motto
Language
English
Time
1868 1860s 19th century
Authentication Score 1
Citation

Anthony, Susan B. The Revolution. 15 Jan. 1868.

Another quote from 1867

The sea of faith
Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore
Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furl'd;
But now I only hear
Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar,
Retreating, to the breath
Of the night-wind down the vast edges drear
And naked shingles of the world.

Ah, love, let us be true
To one another! for the world, which seems
To lie before us like a land of dreams,
So various, so beautiful, so new,
Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light,

Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain;
And we are here as on a darkling plain
Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,
Where ignorant armies clash by night.

Matthew Arnold

Dover Beach

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Topic
Decline of religion Disenchanted world Modern life

Author

Matthew Arnold
Source
Dover Beach
Language
English
Time
1867 1860s 19th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Arnold, Matthew. "Dover Beach." New Poems. London: Macmillan and Co., 1867, st. 3, 4.

Current Citation

Arnold, Matthew. "Dover Beach." Dover Beach and Other Poems. Dover Publications, 2012, st. 3, 4.