People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essays: First Series (Emerson)

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Topic

Personal growth Wandering Human nature

Author

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source

Circles Essays: First Series (Emerson)

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

1841 1840s 19th century

Occupation

Philosopher Writer

From

United States

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Original Citation

Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "Circles." Essays: First Series. Boston: James Munroe and Company, 1841.

Current Citation

Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "Circles (1841)." The Portable Emerson, edited by Jeffrey S. Cramer. Penguin Classics, 2014.

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Come out of your warm, angular house, resounding with few voices, into the chill, grand, instantaneous night, with such a Presence as a full moon in the clouds.

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Source
Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Medium
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Time
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. Journal entry. 11 May 1838.

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I wear the chain I forged in life.

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Medium
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Language
English
Time
1843 1840s 19th century
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Original Citation

Dickens, Charles. A Christmas Carol. London: Chapman & Hall, 1843, stave 1.

Current Citation

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Out of the crooked timber of humanity no straight thing was ever made.

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Topic
Imperfection Human nature

Author

Immanuel Kant
Source
Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Purpose
Medium
Essay
Genre
Philosophical literature
Statement Type
Metaphor, analogy and simile
Language
German
Time
1784 1780s 18th century
Era
Age of Enlightenment
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Citation

Kant, Immanuel. "Idee zu einer allgemeinen Geschichte in weltbürgerlicher Absicht [Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Purpose]." Berlinische Monatsschrift, Nov. 1784.