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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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Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 1

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 504 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 is against it. A man is to earry himself in the presence of all opposition, as if everything were titular and ephemeral but him....
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Boston Monday lectures, Volume 3

Joseph Cook - 1880 - 304 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 is against it. A man is to carry himself, iu the presence of all opposition, as if everything were titular and ephemeral but he." 6. "One man...
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Works

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 648 pages
...my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this ; the only right is yet served up to it. everything were titular and ephemeral but him. I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges...
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The English School of Painting

Ernest Chesneau - 1885 - 402 pages
...which he maintained by self-reliance. Aptly does he illustrate the American philosopher's words : " A man is to carry himself in the presence of all opposition as if everything were titular and ephemeral but he." Learn all you can from the past, and forget it — this...
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Christian Thought, Volume 1

1886 - 436 pages
...own mind." "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." Carlyle, witnessing this soaring away from nature, under the plea of trusting nature, in Emerson, and...
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The American Catholic Quarterly Review, Volume 11

James Andrew Corcoran, Patrick John Ryan, Edmond Francis Prendergast - 1886 - 806 pages
...the law." " 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 .... if I am the devil's child, I will live then from the devil." " In self-trust all the virtues are...
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Scribner's Magazine, Volume 46

Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Dashiell, Harlan Logan - 1909 - 1036 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." Ill IT would indeed be hardly too fanciful to find Emerson's philosophy very considerably derived from...
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Select Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 402 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 - 1888 - 408 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...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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