 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 466 pages
...impulses may be from below, not from above." I replied, " They do not seem to me to be such ; but if I am the Devil's child, I will live then from the Devil."...against it. A man is to carry himself in the presence of all opposition as if every thing were titular and ephemeral but he. I am ashamed to think how easily... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 842 pages
...impulses may be from below, not from above." I replied, " They do not seem to me to be such; but if I am the Devil's child, I will live then from the Devil."...constitution ; the only wrong what is against it. A man is to-carry himself in the presence of all opposition as if every thing were titular and ephemeral but... | |
 | Horatio Willis Dresser - 1903 - 468 pages
...retrospect, and, I cannot doubt, it will be found symmetrical, though I mean it not and see it not. . . . Good and bad are but names very readily transferable...my constitution, the only wrong what is against it. ... We first share the life by which things exist, and afterwards see them as appearances in nature,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 362 pages
...impulses may be from below, not from above." I replied, "They do not seem to me to be such; but if I am the Devil's child, I will live then from the Devil....against it. A man is to carry himself in the presence of all opposition as if every thing were titular and ephemeral but he.5 I am ashamed to think how easily... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1905 - 70 pages
...impulses may be from below, not from above." I replied, ' They do not seem to me to be such ; but if I am the devil's child, I will live then from the devil.'...against it. A man is to carry himself in the presence of all opposition as if every thing were titular and ephemeral but he. I am ashamed to think how easily... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1905 - 138 pages
...NOVEMBER ELEVENTH We cannot describe the natural history of the soul, but we know that it is diyine. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable...against it. A man is to carry himself in the presence of all opposition as if every thing were titular and ephemeral but he. SELF-RELIANCE NOVEMBER THIRTEENTH... | |
 | Oscar Lovell Triggs - 1905 - 312 pages
..."These impulses may be from below," Whitman would respond as cheerfully as did the elder sage : "If I am the Devil's child, I will live then from the Devil;...no law can be sacred to me but that of my nature." However Whitman is more inclined to deny the validity of the terms good and bad altogether and would... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1907 - 270 pages
...to the established creed or rule. 2 Undying fame. 3 Justify. 4 Vote of approval. such ; but if I am the Devil's child, I will live then from the Devil."...that or this ; the only right is what is after my 5 constitution ; the only wrong what is against it. A man is to carry himself in the presence of all... | |
 | George Edward Woodberry - 1907 - 252 pages
...man obeys his constitution, he will be in the right. Here is Emerson's only sanction of morality ; " the only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong what is against it." A man cannot violate his own nature, in any case ; but error lies in setting up - one part of it by itself.... | |
 | 1860 - 708 pages
...course, can be committed against him. The sole authority is man's own nature. " No law," he says, " can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names readily transferable to this or that ; the only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong... | |
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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. 
