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" 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 my constitution, the only wrong what is against it. "
Emerson's Complete Works: Essays. 1st series - Page 52
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883
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The Congregational Review, Volume 1

1861 - 636 pages
...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." We are even informed, on what we believe to be reliable authority, that, on a winter day, this gentleman...
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The Boston Review, Volume 1

1861 - 634 pages
...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." We are even informed, on what we believe to be reliable authority, that, on a winter day, this gentleman...
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Philosophy as absolute science, founded in the universal laws of being, by E ...

Ephraim Langdon Frothingham - 1864 - 520 pages
...my 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. I shun father and mother and wife and brother when my genius calls me. I would write upon the lintels...
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The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 1

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 592 pages
...nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this ; the only right "' is what is after my constitution, the only wrong what...it. A man is to carry himself in the presence of all opposiā€¢ ti(3n, as if everything were titular and ephemeral but he. I am ashamed to think how easily...
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Half truths and the truth, lects. on the origin and development of ...

Jacob Merrill Manning - 1872 - 544 pages
...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 only wrong what...himself, in the presence of all opposition, as if everything were titular and ephemeral but he."3 " It is of no use to preach to me from without. If...
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Half Truths and the Truth: Lectures on the Origin and Development of ...

Jacob Merrill Manning - 1872 - 420 pages
...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 only wrong what...himself, in the presence of all opposition, as if everything were titular and ephemeral but he."3 " It is of no use to preach to me from without. If...
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Half Truths and the Truth: Lectures on the Origin and Development of ...

Jacob Merrill Manning - 1872 - 418 pages
...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 only wrong what...himself, in the presence of all opposition, as if everything were titular and ephemeral but he."3 " It is of no use to preach to me from without. If...
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The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: In Two Volumes, Volume 1

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 584 pages
...my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this ; the only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong what...carry himself in the presence of all opposition, as if everything were titular and ephemeral but he. I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges...
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Essays: First Series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 300 pages
...my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this ; the only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong what...carry himself in the presence of all opposition, as if everything were titular and ephemeral but him. I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges...
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Essays, First Series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 302 pages
...my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong what...carry himself in the presence of all opposition, as if everything were titular and ephemeral but him. I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges...
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