 Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself,...  The Revolt of Modern Youth - Page 339by Ben Barr Lindsey, Wainwright Evans - 1925 - 354 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1848 - 596 pages
...duty is to be sought for from within, and not from without, whether from the Bible or elsewhere. " I remember an answer which, when quite young, I was...to a valued adviser, who was wont to importune me witli the dear old doctrine of the church. On my saying, What have I to do with the sacredness of traditions,... | |
 | 1850 - 524 pages
...us, by an incident in his own life, what he meaas by this self-reliance : — " I remember an aaswer which, when quite young, I was prompted to make to a valued friend who was wont to importune me with the dear old doctrines of the Church. On my saying, ' What... | |
 | Fredrika Bremer - 1854 - 676 pages
...must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve...yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world. * * * * " A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, ado: ed by little statesmen, and... | |
 | Ephraim Langdon Frothingham - 1864 - 520 pages
...of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of our own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world. No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1879 - 304 pages
...must not be hindered by tlie name of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve...you shall have the suffrage of the world. I remember au answer which •when quite young I was prompted to make to a valued adviser, who was wont to importune... | |
 | Alfred Hudson Guernsey - 1881 - 340 pages
...must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve...yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world." And again, still following his theme along another path : SELF-BELIANCE AND PEAYEE. " It is easy to... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 402 pages
...must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve...yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world. I rernember an answer which when quite young I was prompted to make to a valued adviser, who was wont... | |
 | John Mackinnon Robertson - 1891 - 322 pages
...must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve...to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world."3 There is the pure note of the moral truth in the doctrine of the secret augury and the inward... | |
 | Maturin Murray Ballou - 1894 - 604 pages
...occasion to put the hands of others at the end of his own arms . — Koussca u . Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve...yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world. — Emerson. Happy the man to whom Heaven has given a morsel of bread without laying him under the... | |
 | F. J. L. Cavanagh - 1895 - 188 pages
...sensibility creates unhappiness; too much insensibility leads to crime. — Talleyrand. NOTHING is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve...yourself and you shall have the suffrage of the world. — Emerson. A TRAGIC END. Little deeds of love, Make this world an Eden Like the Heaven above. SELF-CONTROL.... | |
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