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 42by Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1849Full view - About this book
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...direction, hence, in one sense, no path (plottable from outside the journey). (From "Self-Reliance" : "If I am the Devil's child, I will live then from the Devil." The idea is that attempting not to live so would not protect the world from the fact of you, probably... | |
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