Ralph Waldo Emerson a-t-il vraiment dit « Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm » ?

Ralph Waldo Emerson a-t-il vraiment dit « Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm » ?

Trouvé mot pour mot. Oui. Le texte figure dans des œuvres attribuées à Ralph Waldo Emerson. Source et emplacement ci-dessous.

… elves, to be surprised out of our propriety, to lose our sempiternal[715] memory and to do something without knowing how or why; in short to draw a new circle. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. The way of life is wonderful. It is by abandonment. The great moments of history are the facilities of performance through the strength of ideas, as the works of genius and religion. "A man," said Oliver Cromwell,[716] "never rises so high as when he knows not whither he is going." Dreams and drunkenness, the use of opium and alcohol are the semblance and counterfeit of this oracular genius, and hence their dangerous attraction for men. For the like reason they as …
Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson — Ralph Waldo Emerson, ¶444 · Public domain (US), Project Gutenberg #16643 · source

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