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" What have I to do with the sacredness of traditions, if I live wholly from within?" my friend suggested, — "But these impulses may be from below, not from above." I replied, "They do not seem to me to be such; but if I am the Devil's child. I will live... "
Twelve essays [comprising Essays, 1st ser.]. - Page 42
by Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1849
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Bob Dylan and Philosophy: It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Thinking)

Peter Vernezze, Carl J. Porter - 2006 - 232 pages
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Murder in the Heartland

M. William Phelps - 2006 - 412 pages
...she put the receiver to her mouth. "I'm going to prove you are the liar, Carl." not from above . . . but if I am the Devil's child, I will live then from the Devil. — Ralph Waldo Emerson THE RUSE It was five days before the winter solstice. December 16, 2004, started...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Harold Bloom - 2007 - 280 pages
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The Works of Orestes A. Brownson: Contai, Volume 6

Orestes A. Brownson - 2006 - 600 pages
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The Redemptive Self: Stories Americans Live By

Dan P. McAdams - 2005 - 400 pages
...republic: "Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members," and "no law can be sacred to me but that of my nature." Therefore, "whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist."42 The individualist keeps his distance and...
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Populist Saints

Howard A. Snyder - 2006 - 1020 pages
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Liberty: God's Gift to Humanity

Chana B. Cox - 2006 - 302 pages
...different ways. Emerson writes, "Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind" and "No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature," but Stanton writes of "the immeasurable solitude of self." And so it ever must be in the conflicting...
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2007 - 240 pages
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Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter

Harold Bloom - 2007 - 232 pages
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Changing Rapture: Emily Dickinson's Poetic Development

Aliki Barnstone - 2006 - 220 pages
...On my saying, "What have I to do with the sacredness of traditions, if I live wholly from within?" my friend suggested, — "But these impulses may be...the Devil's child, I will live then from the Devil." (Complete Writings 138) Dickinson has revisioned two texts with great cultural importance — one sacred,...
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