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" 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 53
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1911 - 132 pages
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Christian Thought, Volume 1

1886 - 436 pages
...belong." Furthermore, as to morals, " Nothing at last is sacred but the integrity of your own mind." "Good and bad are but names very readily transferable...constitution, the only wrong what is against it." Carlyle, witnessing this soaring away from nature, under the plea of trusting nature, in Emerson, and...
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Scribner's Magazine, Volume 46

Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Dashiell, Harlan Logan - 1909 - 1036 pages
...me but that of my own nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to this or that; the only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong what is against it." Ill IT would indeed be hardly too fanciful to find Emerson's philosophy very considerably derived from...
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The Works of Orestes A. Brownson: Controversy

Orestes Augustus Brownson - 1884 - 610 pages
...such; hut if I am the devil's child, I will live from the devil. No> law is sacred to me but the law of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to this or that ; the only right it what it after my constitution, the only wrong is what is against it."...
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Select Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 402 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...all opposition, as if everything were titular and ephemeral but he. I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies...
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Essays: First Series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 408 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...to carry himself in the presence of all opposition ^s if every thing were titular and ephemeral but neT I am ashamed bo ^ VJ3U- .to think how easily we...
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To-day, Volume 1

J. Morrison-Fuller, Walter C. Rose - 1890 - 526 pages
...integrity of our own mind. . . . No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and lad aro hut names very readily transferable to that or this; the...is what is after my constitution ; the only wrong is what is against it. A man is to carry himself, in the presence of all opposition, as if everything...
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The American Scholar: Self-reliance. Compensation

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1893 - 126 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...ephemeral3 but he. I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead institutions. Every decent and well-spoken...
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Essays: First Series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1894 - 334 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 transferable to that or this; the only light is what is after my constitution, the only wrong what is against it. A man is to carry himself...
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1895 - 334 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 transferable to that or this; the only light is what is after my constitution, the only wrong what is against it. A man is to carry himself...
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Select American Classics: Being Selections from Irving's Sketch Book and ...

1896 - 374 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...ephemeral3 but he. I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead institutions. Every decent and well-spoken...
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