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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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An Emerson Calendar

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1905 - 138 pages
...is diyine. 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...if every thing were titular and ephemeral but he. SELF-RELIANCE NOVEMBER THIRTEENTH One thing is forever good, That one thing is success, — Dear to...
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The Emerson Birthday-book ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1906 - 200 pages
...we value total powers and effects — as, the impression, the quality, the spirit of men and things. A MAN is to carry himself in the presence of all opposition...if every thing were titular and ephemeral but he. "THE prayer of the farmer kneeling in his field to weed it, the prayer of the rower, kneeling with...
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Select Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1907 - 270 pages
...bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this ; the only right is what is after my 5 constitution ; the only wrong what is against it....presence of all opposition as if every thing were titular1 and ephemeral but he. I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names,...
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Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1908 - 324 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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American Prose Masters: Cooper, Hawthorne, Emerson, Poe, Lowell, Henry James

William Crary Brownell - 1909 - 572 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." IV It would, indeed, be hardly too fanciful to find Emerson's philosophy very considerably derived...
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Select Essays and Addresses: Including The American Scholar

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1912 - 314 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 carry himself in^the presenci of all opposition, as if every thing were titular and ephemera but he. I am ashamed...
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The American Scholar,: Self-reliance, Compensation,

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1911 - 148 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 ephemeral3 but he. I am ashamed to think how easily we is capitulate to...
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The Methodist Review, Volume 64; Volume 86

1904 - 1036 pages
...integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself and you shall have the suffrage of the world. ... A man is to 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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English Prose: A Series of Related Essays for the Discussion and Practice of ...

Frederick William Roe, George Roy Elliott - 1913 - 512 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...capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and 5 dead institutions. Every decent and well-spoken individual affects and sways me more than is right....
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College Life, Its Conditions and Problems: A Selection of Essays for Use in ...

Maurice Garland Fulton - 1914 - 556 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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