never to rely on your memory alone, scarcely even in acts of pure memory, but bring the past for judgment into the thousand-eyed present, and live ever in a new day. Trust your emotion. In your metaphysics you have denied personality to the Deity: yet... The Essay on Self-reliance - Page 22by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1908 - 59 pagesFull view - About this book
| Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1841 - 408 pages
...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 even...Deity: yet when the devout motions of the soul come, yield to them heart and life, though they should clothe God with shape and colour. Leave your theory,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 354 pages
...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 even in acts of pure memory, but to bring the past for judgment into the thousand-eyed present, and live ever in a new day. In your... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...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 even...Deity; yet when the devout motions of the soul come, yield to them heart and life, though they should clothe God with shape and colour. Leave your theory,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...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 even...Deity: yet when the devout motions of the soul come, yield to them heart and life, though they should clothe God with shape and colour. Leave your theory... | |
| Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...that public place 1 Suppose you should contradict yourself; what then? It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on your memory alone, scarcely even...Deity: yet when the devout motions of the soul come, yield to them heart and life, though they should clothe God with shnpe »nd colour. Leave your theory... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 352 pages
...be a rule of wisdom never to rely on y&ur memory alone, scarcely even in acts of pure memory, but to bring the past for judgment into the thousand-eyed present, and live ever in a new day. In your metaphysics you have denied personality to the Deity : yet when the devout motions of the soul... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 356 pages
...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 even in acts of pure memory, but to bring the past for judgment into the thousand-eyed present, and live ever in a new day. In your... | |
| Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1853 - 214 pages
...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 even...Deity : yet when the devout motions of the soul come, yield to them heart and life, though they should clothe God with shape and colour. Leave your theory... | |
| Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1853 - 214 pages
...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 even...Deity : yet when the devout motions of the soul come, yield to them heart and life, though they should clothe God with shape and colour. Leave your theory... | |
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