 Why drag about this corpse of your memory lest you contradict somewhat you have stated in this or that public place? Suppose you should contradict yourself; what then?  Essays - Page 52by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 333 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1899 - 380 pages
...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...memory, but to bring the past for judgment into the thousand - eyed present, and live ever in a new day. In your metaphysics you have denied personality... | |
 | Barrett Wendell - 1900 - 598 pages
...things ? — " Why should you keep your head over your shoulder ? Why drag about this corpse of your memory, lest you contradict somewhat you have stated...Suppose you should contradict yourself : what then ? . . . A foolish consistency is the hobJ goblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers... | |
 | Israel C. McNeill, Samuel Adams Lynch - 1901 - 398 pages
...But why should you keep your head over your shoulder ? Why drag about this corpse of your memory, 235 lest you contradict somewhat you have stated in this...of pure memory, but to bring the past for judgment into240 the thousand-eyed present, and live ever in a new day. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 206 pages
...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...contradict yourself; what then? It seems to be a rule of \visdom never to rely on your memory alone, scarcely even in acts of pure memory, but to bring the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 66 pages
...But why should you keep your head over your shoulder? Why drag about this monstrous corpse of your memory, lest you contradict somewhat you have stated...memory alone, scarcely even in acts of pure memory, but bring the past for judgment into the thousand-eyed present, and live ever in a new day. Trust your... | |
 | Barrett Wendell, Chester Noyes Greenough - 1904 - 478 pages
...consistent things?— "Why should you keep your head over your shoulder? Why drag about this corpse of your memory, lest you contradict somewhat you have stated...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 - 1904 - 560 pages
...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. ... A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." — " Self- Reliance." Page 16, note I.... | |
 | 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 - 574 pages
...of Emerson's.,-" },' Page 75, 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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