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 that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after... The American Scholar,: Self-reliance, Compensation, - Page 53by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1911 - 132 pagesFull view - About this book
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 470 pages
...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. Good and bad are but names very readily...carry himself in the presence of all opposition as if every thing were titular and ephemeral but he. I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 302 pages
...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. Good and bad are but names very readily...constitution, the only wrong what is against it. A man is to earry himself in the presence of all opposition, as if everything were titular and ephemeral but him.... | |
| Joseph Cook - 1880 - 304 pages
...child, I will live from the devil. Good and bad are names very readily transferable to this or that. The only right is what is after my constitution, the...wrong, what is against it. A man is to carry himself, iu the presence of all opposition, as if everything were titular and ephemeral but he." 6. "One man... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 648 pages
...if I am the Devil's child, I will live then from the Devil. ' No law can be sacred to me but that of to which we are entitled, whilst it is only a thought,...that incites us. We have not yet served up to it. ephemeral but him. I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1900 - 356 pages
...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. Good and bad are but names very readily...carry himself in the presence of all opposition as if every thing were titular and ephemeral but he. I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 352 pages
...live then from the Devil." No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are T)ut names very readily transferable to that or this; the...carry himself in the presence of all opposition as if every thing were titular and ephemeral but he. I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 350 pages
...if I am the Devil's child, I will live then from the Devil." N0.Iaw can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this ; the onlv_righi ISL what is after my constitution ; the only wrong what is against it. A man is to carry... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884 - 356 pages
...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. Good and bad are but names very readily...Carry himself in the presence of all opposition as if every thing were titular and ephemeral but he. I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges... | |
| Ernest Chesneau - 1885 - 402 pages
...which he maintained by self-reliance. Aptly does he illustrate the American philosopher's words : " A man is to carry himself in the presence of all opposition as if everything were titular and ephemeral but he." Learn all you can from the past, and forget it — this is the only rule for great... | |
| James Andrew Corcoran, Patrick John Ryan, Edmond Francis Prendergast - 1886 - 806 pages
...nature-god, of whom I am a part, an incarnation). " The highest virtue is always against the law." " Good and bad are but names very readily transferable...my constitution; the only wrong, what is against it .... if I am the devil's child, I will live then from the devil." " In self-trust all the virtues are... | |
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