But why should you keep your head over your shoulder? Why drag about this corpse of your memory, lest you contradict somewhat you have stated in this or that public place? Essays - Page 53by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1895 - 270 pagesFull view - About this book
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 168 pages
...terror that scares us from self-trust is our consistency ; a reverence for our past act or word, because the eyes of others have no other data for computing...our past acts, and we are loath to disappoint them. 13. But why should you keep your head over your shoulder ? Why drag about this monstrous corpse of... | |
| 1842 - 740 pages
...After stating that a regard for consistency often ' scares us from our self-trust,' he asks, — ' But why should you keep your head over your shoulder?...contradict somewhat you have stated in this or that public places' Suppose you should contradict yourself; what then:'' — Essay ii., p. 57. Why — it depends... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 354 pages
...terror that scares us from self-trust is our consistency ; a reverence for our past act or word, because the eyes of others have no other data for computing...your head over your shoulder ? Why drag about this corpse of your 4 memory, lest you contradict somewhat you have stated in this or that public place... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...terror that scares us from self-trust is our consistency ; a reverence for our past act or word, because the eyes of others have no other data for computing...that public place ? Suppose you should contradict yourself—what then ? It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on your memory alone, scarcely... | |
| Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...terror that scares us from self-trust is our consistency ; a reverence for our past act or word, because the eyes of others have no other data for computing...But why should you keep your head over your shoulder 1 Why drag about this monstrous corpse of your memory, lest you contradict somewhat you have stated... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 352 pages
...terror that scares us from self-trust is our consistency ; a reverence for our past act or word, because the eyes of others have no other data for computing...your head over your shoulder ? Why drag about this corpse of your 4 memory, lest you contradict somewhat you have stated in this or that public place... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 356 pages
...terror that scares us from self-trust is our consistency ; a reverence for our past act or word, because the eyes of others have no other data for computing...your head over your shoulder ? Why drag about this corpse of your memory, lest you contradict somewhat you have stated in this or that public place ?... | |
| 1850 - 524 pages
...terror that scares us from self-trust is our consistency : a reverence for our past act or word, because the eyes of others have no other data for computing our orbit than our past acts, and we are loth to disappoint them." But the deliberate acts and words of a highly trained man proceed from principles... | |
| 1858 - 424 pages
...terror that scares us from self-trust is our consistency ; a reverence for our past act or word, because the eyes of others have no other data for computing our orbit than our past acts, and we are loth to disappoint them. But why should you keep your head over your shoulder? Why drag about this... | |
| Augusta Jane Evans - 1859 - 518 pages
...to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said to-day. Why should you keep your head over your shoulder ? Why drag about this corpse of your memory, lest you contradict somewhat you have stated in this or that public place ?... | |
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