 | Henry Harrison Brown - 1901 - 72 pages
...incomparable essay on "Self-Reliance": "Whoso would be a man must be a non-conformist. Nothing at last is sacred but the integrity of your own mind. , Absolve...yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world." Liberty is the way, and the only way, to soul growth. It is the way man has ever traveled. There has... | |
 | 1915 - 266 pages
...predominating in all their being. * * * Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of our own minds. Absolve you to yourself and you shall have the suffrage of the world." What an indictment of the fearsome "man-child" in the midst of free, contented, unashamed nature about... | |
 | Wayne W. Dyer - 1991 - 294 pages
...person. Ralph Waldo Emerson understood this better than anyone I've ever read. In Self-Reliance he said, Whoso would be a man, must be a non-conformist He...at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Those are mighty powerful words, but diey are not the most popular of sentiments. Nonconformity is... | |
 | James McCorkle - 1990 - 608 pages
...more important sex of mind." Of divine absolution, he simply referred us to a divinity closer at hand: "Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world." I would like to say these examples amount to recombinant memes. I can certainly say along with Charles... | |
 | John Beebe - 1992 - 200 pages
...Integrity and Gender 70 Chapter 4. Working on Integrity 99 Epilogue 125 Notes 127 Index 155 Foreword Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your...yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world. — EMERSON JOHN BEEBE has successfully carried out an immense task of understanding one of the most... | |
 | Douglas Robinson - 1994 - 340 pages
...constant counterpressure. "Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind," Emerson says. "Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world" ("SelfReliance" 50). But if integrity is sacred, it is also taboo: work to absolve yourself so that... | |
 | Sanford Budick - 1996 - 372 pages
...resembles no earlier critic of American culture more than Emerson. Emerson writes in "Self-Reliance": Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist. He...name of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness. ... If malice and vanity wear the coat of philanthropy, shall that pass? If any angry bigot assumes... | |
 | David Edwards - 1996 - 260 pages
...but to be real; only from this aim can virtuous lives and behaviour arise. As Emerson said so well: 'He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered...of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness.' 25 Like the Eastern sages, our society needs to grow out of its adolescent experimentation with inadequate... | |
 | Charles Horton Cooley - 1998 - 284 pages
...Emerson offers his calm, clear, and unmistakable counsel of self-reliance. "Trust thyself." "Whoso would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by...name of goodness but must explore if it be goodness." He does not say "follow your own instincts unless they seem to conflict with what the world recognizes... | |
 | Charles B. Guignon - 1999 - 350 pages
...conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs. Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist. He...yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world. I remember an answer which when quite young I was prompted to make to a valued adviser who was wont... | |
| |
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness. 
