| Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. | | | |
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| | | NUMBER: | 1819 |
| AUTHOR: | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) |
| QUOTATION: | These times of ours are serious and full of calamity, but all times are essentially alike. As soon as there is life there is danger. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | RALPH WALDO EMERSON, “Public and Private Education,” lecture before the Parker Fraternity, Boston, Massachusetts, November 27, 1864.—Emerson, Uncollected Lectures, ed. Clarence Gohdes, p. 14 (1932). |
| SUBJECTS: | Times |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia | | WORKS: | Ralph Waldo Emerson Collection | | |
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