 No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution ; the only wrong, what is against it.  Twelve Essays - Page 43by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 261 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Sherwin Cody - 1903 - 508 pages
...above." I replied : " They do not seem to me to be such ; but if I am the Devil's child, I will live then from the Devil." No law can be sacred to me but...carry himself in the presence of all opposition, as if everything were titular and ephemeral but him. I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 842 pages
...above." I replied, " They do not seem to me to be such; but if I am the Devil's child, I will live then from the Devil." No law can be sacred to me but...constitution ; the only wrong what is against it. A man is to-carry himself in the presence of all opposition as if every thing were titular and ephemeral but... | |
 | Horatio Willis Dresser - 1903 - 468 pages
...retrospect, and, I cannot doubt, it will be found symmetrical, though I mean it not and see it not. . . . Good and bad are but names very readily transferable...my constitution, the only wrong what is against it. ... We first share the life by which things exist, and afterwards see them as appearances in nature,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 362 pages
...from above." I replied, "They do not seem to me to be such; but if I am the Devil's child, I will live then from the Devil. " No law can be sacred to me...opposition as if every thing were titular and ephemeral but he.5 I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead... | |
 | John Burroughs - 1904 - 336 pages
...and knows that his will is higher and more excellent than all actual and all possible antagonists." "A man is to carry himself in the presence of all opposition as if everything were titular and ephemeral but he." "Great works of art," he again saySj "teach us to abide... | |
 | John Burroughs - 1904 - 336 pages
...and knows that his will is higher and more excellent than all actual and all possible antagonists." "A man is to carry himself in the presence of all opposition as if everything were titular and ephemeral but he." "Great works of art," he again says, "teach us to abide... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1905 - 138 pages
...NOVEMBER ELEVENTH We cannot describe the natural history of the soul, but we know that it is diyine. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable...if every thing were titular and ephemeral but he. SELF-RELIANCE NOVEMBER THIRTEENTH One thing is forever good, That one thing is success, — Dear to... | |
 | Oscar Lovell Triggs - 1905 - 312 pages
...Whitman would respond as cheerfully as did the elder sage : "If I am the Devil's child, I will live then from the Devil; no law can be sacred to me but that of my nature." However Whitman is more inclined to deny the validity of the terms good and bad altogether and would... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1906 - 200 pages
...we value total powers and effects — as, the impression, the quality, the spirit of men and things. A MAN is to carry himself in the presence of all opposition...if every thing were titular and ephemeral but he. "THE prayer of the farmer kneeling in his field to weed it, the prayer of the rower, kneeling with... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1907 - 270 pages
...rule. 2 Undying fame. 3 Justify. 4 Vote of approval. such ; but if I am the Devil's child, I will live then from the Devil." No law can be sacred to me but...that or this ; the only right is what is after my 5 constitution ; the only wrong what is against it. A man is to carry himself in the presence of all... | |
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