Quote Help.. American Literature?

Question

Who said something along the lines of "You see a mans true self in a state of emergency" or something like that. I believe it was Emerson or Thoreau or something.

I need the Quote AND Author! Please Help!

Answer 1

It's in reference to a man's character.

Here's what I found on "character" at
http://en.thinkexist.com/quotations/character/

“You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.”
James D. Miles

“Everyone tries to define this thing called Character. It's not hard. Character is doing what's right when nobody's looking.”

“I have no regrets in my life. I think that everything happens to you for a reason. The hard times that you go through build character, making you a much stronger person.”
Rita Mero

"Character develops itself in the stream of life.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Character is not made in a crisis it is only exhibited.”
Robert Freeman

“Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are to some extent a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it piece by piece by thought, choice, courage and determination.”
John Luther

And my favorite:
“Character is the sum and total of a person's choices.”
P. B. Fitzwater

*******And from
http://www.quoteland.com/topic.asp?CATEGORY_ID=20

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."
-Martin Luther King, Jr.

Answer 2

The method to procedure that is to appear on the essence of HF and notice the way it applies to detailed works. Rebellion, starting off on an journey, more youthful as opposed to older iteration, abuse by way of father and mother, coming residence: all advised in a homespun, useful language a ways eliminated from stilted speech. To Kill a Mockingbird, I do not suppose, follows this sample, even though you'll be able to see similarities: the friendship of the kids, for example. Poetry? Does Robert Frost have compatibility the mould? I do not suppose so. How approximately Eugene O'Neil in his performs--I do not suppose so. I would not take Hemingway too critically. I'm a Faulkner guy myself.

Answer 3

James Russell Lowell said in "Abraham Lincoln" (1864):

"It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the nativ metal of a man is tested."

There's the line from Rudyard Kipling's "If:"

"If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too; ..."

The poem ends, of course,

"Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man my son!"

Answer 4

"You can't truly see anyone else if you could not see yourself"

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