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" No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this: the only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong what is against it. "
Essays: First Series - Page 48
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1894 - 322 pages
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The Monthly magazine

Monthly literary register - 1841 - 1092 pages
...Good and bad," says he, " are but names very readily transferable to that or this ; the only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong what is against it." This doctrine (though true) is liable to much misinterpretation; especially in the vague and paradoxical...
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Select Essays and Poems

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 168 pages
...is meant by : " Absolve you to yourself " ? Ought we to care for the opinion of others ? Why is E. only wrong what is against it. A man is to carry himself in the presence of all opposition as if everything were titular and ephemeral but he. I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges...
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 396 pages
...of my nature. Good and bad are but names, very readily transferable to that or this ; the only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong what...societies and dead institutions. Every decent and well«/ spoken individual affects and sways me more than is right. I ought to go upright and vital,...
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The Dublin Review, Volume 11

Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1841 - 618 pages
...of my nature. Good and bad are but names, very readily transferable to that or this ; the only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong what...if every thing were titular and ephemeral but he." — p. 50. And, again, " Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the exception than the rule....
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The Monthly Magazine, Or, British Register

1841 - 640 pages
...Good and bad," says he, " are but names very readily transferable to that or this ; the only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong what is against it." This doctrine (though true) is liable to much misinterpretation ; especially in the vague and paradoxical...
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Human Nature: A Philosophical Exposition of the Divine Institution of Reward ...

1844 - 112 pages
...this source. " Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this, the only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong what is against it."* A philosophical and true standard of right and wrong, good and evil, to which every action may be referred,...
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Human nature, a philosophical exposition of the divine institution of reward ...

Human nature - 1844 - 116 pages
...this source. " Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this, the only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong what is against it."* A philosophical and true standard of right and wrong, good and evil, to which every action may be referred,...
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The United States Magazine and Democratic Review, Volume 15

1844 - 648 pages
...of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution ; the only wrong, what is against it." . . . . " Perhaps, if we should meet Shnkspcare, we should not be conscious of any steep inferiority...
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The Methodist new connexion magazine and evangelical repository, Volume 54

1851 - 650 pages
...of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this ; the only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong what is against it."f There are occasional irreverences in the writings of Emerson to which we decidedly object, and...
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The Water Cure Journal and Hygienic Magazine, Volume 1

1848 - 1292 pages
...of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this ; the only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong what...thing were titular and ephemeral but he. I am ashamed hoV easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead institutions. Every decent...
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