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" Don't say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary. "
Letters and Social Aims - Page 80
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 285 pages
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The Irish Monthly, Volume 34

1906 - 730 pages
...Emerson says in one of his essays : " That which you are will teach, not voluntarily but involuntarily. Don't say things. What you are stands over you the...that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary." The witness that we now bring forward as to the last term of Father Edward Kelly's life begins by almost...
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Talks on Writing English

Arlo Bates - 1896 - 342 pages
...speaks, but the personality and manner which declare the contrary. You remember how Emerson puts this : " What you are stands over you the while, and thunders...that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary." Now the writer is confronted by the necessity of making himself intelligible without the many aids...
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Talks on Writing English

Arlo Bates - 1896 - 342 pages
...speaks, but the personality and manner which declare the contrary. You remember how Emerson puts this: " What you are stands over you the while, and thunders...that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary." Now the writer is confronted by the necessity of making himself intelligible without the many aids...
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Record: 1893-98 of the Class of '93

Pennsylvania. University. Class of 1893, University of Pennsylvania. Class of 1893 - 1898 - 174 pages
...main, is a plain statement of facts; it shows what *93's men are to-day. "What you are" says Emerson, "stands over you the while and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary." Is the record we have made in the last five years an honorable, a creditable one? With modesty, we...
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The Centenary of the Birth of Ralph Waldo Emerson: As Observed in Concord ...

Social Circle in Concord - 1903 - 170 pages
...through you though you were dumb. They will flow out of your actions, your manners and your face. . . . Don't say things : What you are stands over you the while and thunders so that I cannot say what you say to the contrary. . . . What a man is engraves itself upon him in letters of light....
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Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson: 1838-1841

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1911 - 614 pages
...Love takes off the edges and the ceremonies of speech and says Thee to one, and you to many. Do not say things. What you are stands over you the while...so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary. (From F) August 1 6. After seeing Anna Barker I rode with Margaret [Fuller] to the plains. She taxed...
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Memories and Studies

William James - 1911 - 446 pages
...through you though you were dumb. They will flow out of your actions, your manners and your face. . . . Don't say things: What you are stands over you the while and thunders so that I cannot say what you say to the contrary. . . . What a man is engraves itself upon him in letters of light....
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A Course in Citizenship

Ella Lyman Cabot, Fannie Fern Andrews, Fanny E. Coe, Mabel Hill, Mary McSkimmon - 1914 - 420 pages
...which you found irresistible. You will accept the fertile truth, instead of the solemn customary lie. When people come to see us, we foolishly prattle,...so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary. For the Class: He who feeds men serveth few, He feeds all who dares be true. EMERSON. Suggestions for...
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Occasional Addresses

Brainerd Kellogg - 1914 - 224 pages
...refutes the word and not the word the deed? Are we not in accord with the wise Emerson when he says, "What you are stands over you the while, and thunders...that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary"? I reiterate, then, the great truth that being is a never failing mountain spring from which doing proceeds....
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Mechanisms of Character Formation: An Introduction to Psychoanalysis

William Alanson White - 1916 - 364 pages
...chapter in the discussion of partial libido trends. 17 Loc. cit. CHAPTER IX THE WILL TO POWEB (Cent.) What you are stands over you the while, and thunders...so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary. — EMERSON, — Social Aims. PABTIAL LIBIDO STBIVINGS The body is composed of cells, the cells are...
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