Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Artistic development Artists

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source

Progress of Culture

Medium

Speech

Language

English

Time

1867 1860s 19th century

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Philosopher Writer

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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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Men are what their mothers made them.

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Fate

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Fate The Conduct of Life
Medium
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Language
English
Time
1860 1860s 19th century
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Original Citation

Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "Fate." The Conduct of Life. Boston: Ticknor & Fields/London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1860.

Current Citation

Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "Fate." The Conduct of Life, edited by Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, and Douglas Emory Wilson. Vol. 6, Belknap Press, 2004.

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If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of view, justify revolution—certainly would if such a right were a vital one.

Abraham Lincoln

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Medium
Speech
Genre
Political speech
Language
English
Time
1861 1860s 19th century
Authentication Score 2
Original Citation

Lincoln, Abraham. "First Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1861, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Another quote from 1867

We must march my darlings, we must bear the brunt of danger,
We the youthful sinewy races, all the rest on us depend,
Pioneers! O pioneers!

Walt Whitman

Pioneers! O Pioneers!

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Walt Whitman
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Pioneers! O Pioneers! Leaves of Grass
Medium
Poem
Language
English
Time
1867 1860s 19th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Whitman, Walt. "Pioneers! O Pioneers!" Leaves of Grass. New York: Self-published, 1867, st. 2. Originally published in Drum-Taps. New York: Peter Eckler, 1865, st. 2.