 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 19by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 120 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 206 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... | |
 | Sherwin Cody - 1903 - 470 pages
...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...memory alone, scarcely even in acts of pure memory, but to bring the past for judgment into the thousand-eyed present, and live ever in a new day. In your... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 466 pages
...loth 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...memory alone, scarcely even in acts of pure memory, but to bring the past for judgment into the thousand-eyed present, and live ever in a new day. In your... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 842 pages
...disappoint them. But why should you keep your head over your shoulder? Why drag about this corpse of __y your memory, lest you contradict somewhat you have...memory alone, scarcely even in acts of pure memory, but to bring the past for judgment into the thousand-eyed present, and live ever in a new day. In your... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 478 pages
...have no other data for computing our orbit than our past acts, and we are loth 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 ?... | |
 | Sherwin Cody - 1903 - 476 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, kst you contradict somewhat you have stated in this or that public place? Suppose... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 362 pages
...loth to disappoint them. But why should you keep your head over your shoulder ? 10 Why drag about this corpse of your memory, lest you contradict somewhat...memory alone, scarcely even in acts of pure memory, but to bring the past for judgment into the thousand-eyed present, and live ever in a new day. In your... | |
 | Barrett Wendell, Chester Noyes Greenough - 1904 - 468 pages
...them consistent things ? — "Why should you keep your head over your shoulder ? Why drag about this corpse of your memory, lest you contradict somewhat...Suppose you should contradict yourself: what then? ... A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1854 - 598 pages
...doctrine of Emerson's." Page 15, note 2. " But why should you keep your head over your shoulder ? ... It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on your memory alone, but to bring the past for judgment into the thousand-eyed present, and live ever in a new day. ...... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 602 pages
...doctrine of Emerson's." Page 15, note 2. " But why should you keep your head over your shoulder ? ... It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on your memory alone, but to bring the past for judgment into the thousand-eyed present, and live ever in a new day. ...... | |
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