 Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. Society is a joint-stock company, in which the members agree, for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater....  Ralph Waldo Emerson: Philosopher and Poet - Page 175by Alfred Hudson Guernsey - 1881 - 327 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William MacLeod Raine - 1913 - 348 pages
...to the ghosts of dead yesterdays that rule to-day. "Whoso would be a man must be a Bon-conformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but mast explore if it be goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind." —... | |
 | Cyris Franklin Leavitt - 1914 - 390 pages
...life? I believe it is. So I welcome it, heeding only to make sure of its place and accompaniments. "He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered...of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness." "It is only as a man puts off all foreign support and stands alone that I see him to be strong and... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1915 - 200 pages
...bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater. The virtue in most 5 request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion....by the name of goodness, but must explore if it be good- 10 ness. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of our own mind. Absolve you to yourself,... | |
 | fred lewis pattee - 1915 - 522 pages
...wild dreams as solemn fact. He read Emerson and adopted his philosophy literally and completely: '' Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist." "He...palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness." "Insist on yourself; never imitate." "Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man. For... | |
 | Frank Aydelotte - 1917 - 420 pages
...agree, for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater. The virtue in most request is conformity....not realities and creators, but names and customs. The other terror that scares us from self-trust is our consistency; a reverence for our past act or... | |
 | Alice Hubbard - 1918 - 382 pages
...agree, for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realties and creators, but names and customs. <I We can drive a stone upward for a moment into the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1921 - 580 pages
...in the name of sincerity, truth, actuality. "Whoso would be a man," he declares in "SelfReliance," "must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal...of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness." He does not take up the virtues so methodically and exhaustively as Franklin does. That is mainly because... | |
 | Dorothy Canfield Fisher - 1922 - 522 pages
...agree, for the better securing of the bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater. The virtue in most request is conformity....customs. Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist. . . . "The other terror that scares us from self-trust is our consistency; a reverence for our past... | |
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