...Rostand 41. Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory. - Denis Dederot 42. Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. - RW Emerson 43. All maxims have their antagonist maxims; proverbs should be sold in pairs, single...

..."September: Am Flusse." 9. AmZ 23 (1821), col. 378. Burkholder quotes Ralph Waldo Emerson's observation that "Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it," in NG2 4:28. 10. See the hymn and brief commentary in Das katolische deutsche Kirchenlied in seinem...

...peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said" - Jean Rostand. "Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it" - Ralph Waldo Emerson. "Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory" - Denis...

...his excellent knowledge and quotations perhaps as much, possibly more, than Ms original suggestions. Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first...done this, that line will be quoted east and west. When Shakespeare is charged with debts to his authors, Landor replies : " Yet he was more original...

...important to us whose they are. If we are fired and guided by these, we know him as a benefactor. . . . We respect ourselves the more that we know them. Next...originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. ... Genius borrows nobly. When Shakespeare is charged with debts to his authors, Landor replies: "Yet...

...as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors. —Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) The next best thing to being witty one's self, is to be able to...

...about policy to be proactive on consequential transportation development matters? Railroads Rising Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of i — Ralph Waldo Emerson, Quotation and Originality Introduction The first railroad serving both passengers...

...out of context, and may not even mean (even desire to mean) what the "original" author meant; thus, "next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it" and "Genius borrows nobly" (CW 785). Emerson's own source is Goethe, In this case, all thought and...

...constant quoter. "By necessity, by proclivity — and by delight, we all quote," he observed. And: "Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. In the process of quotation Emerson himself didn't always get it right. In his essay "Experience,"...

...dormitory of the soul, side by side with the most despised and exploded errors. — ST Coleridge. 17. Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. — Emerson. 18. Toil is never slavish when it is animated by a glorious purpose. (Compare this saying...