To fill the hour—that is happiness.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essays: Second Series (Emerson)

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Happiness Killing time Spending time

Author

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source

Experience Essays: Second Series (Emerson)

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

1844 1840s 19th century

Occupation

Philosopher Writer

From

United States

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Original Citation

Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "Experience." Essays: Second Series. Boston: James Munroe and Company, 1844.

Current Citation

Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "Experience (1844)." The Portable Emerson, edited by Jeffrey S. Cramer. Penguin Classics, 2014.

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Men grind and grind in the mill of a truism, and nothing comes out but what was put in. But the moment they desert the tradition for a spontaneous thought, then poetry, wit, hope, virtue, learning, anecdote, all flock to their aid.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Literary Ethics

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Literary Ethics
Medium
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Time
1838 1830s 19th century
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "Literary Ethics." 24 July 1838, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA.

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"A fair day's-wages for a fair day's work:" it is as just a demand as Governed men ever made of Governing. It is the everlasting right of man.

Thomas Carlyle

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Thomas Carlyle
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Past and Present
Language
English
Time
1843 1840s 19th century
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Original Citation

Carlyle, Thomas. Past and Present. London: Chapman and Hall, 1843, bk. 1, ch. 3.

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Another quote about Happiness

To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.

Walter Benjamin

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Topic
Self-knowledge Happiness

Author

Walter Benjamin
Source
One Way Street
Language
German
Time
1979 1970s 20th century
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Original Citation

Benjamin, Walter. Einbahnstraße [One Way Street]. Ernst Rowohlt Verlag, 1928.

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Benjamin, Walter. One-Way Street, translated by Edmund Jephcott, edited by Michael W. Jennings. Belknap Press, 2016.