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" Why drag about this monstrous corpse of your memory, lest you contradict somewhat you have stated in this or that public place? Suppose you should contradict yourself; what then? It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on your memory alone, scarcely... "
Select Essays and Poems - Page 37
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1898 - 120 pages
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Compensation and Self-Reliance

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2005 - 69 pages
...have no other data for computing our orbit than our past acts, and we are loath to disappoint them. But why should you keep your head over your shoulder?...contradict somewhat you have stated in this or that public placc? Suppose you should contradict yourself; what then? It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to...
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A Year with Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2005 - 264 pages
...not the slave of your own past. In your prayer, in your teaching cumber not yourself with solicitude lest you contradict somewhat you have stated in this or that public place. So you worship the dull God Terminus & not the Lord of Lords. But dare rather to quit the platform,...
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American Cultures: Readings in Social and Cultural History

Al Smith - 2007 - 464 pages
...have no other data for computing our orbit than our past acts, and we are loath to disappoint them. But why should you keep your head over your shoulder? Why drag about this corpse of your memory, lest you contradict somewhat you have stated in this or that public place? Suppose...
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American Cultures: Readings in Social and Cultural History

Al Smith - 2007 - 464 pages
...have no other data for computing our orbit than our past acts, and we are loath to disappoint them. But why should you keep your head over your shoulder? Why drag about this corpse of your memory, lest you contradict somewhat you have stated in this or that public place? Suppose...
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Motivational Classics

Tom Walsh - 2007 - 200 pages
...have no other data for computing our orbit than our past acts, and we are loath to disappoint them. But why should you keep your head over your shoulder? Why drag about this corpse of your memory, lest you contradict somewhat you have stated in this or that public place? Suppose...
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Emerson: Political Writings

Kenneth S. Sacks - 2008 - 228 pages
...have no other data for computing our orbit than our past acts, and we are loath to disappoint them. But why should you keep your head over your shoulder? Why drag about this corpse of your memory, lest you contradict somewhat you have stated in this or that public place? Suppose...
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