 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
 | Mary Edwards Calhoun, Emma Leonora MacAlarney - 1915 - 670 pages
...concernment. 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...public place ? Suppose you should contradict yourself ; when then ? It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on your memory alone, scarcely even in... | |
 | James Cloyd Bowman - 1918 - 504 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...thousand-eyed present, and live ever in a new day. Trust your emotion. In your metaphysics you have denied personality to the Deity, yet when the devout... | |
 | Alice Hubbard - 1918 - 382 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...thousand-eyed present, and live ever in a new day. Trust your emotion. In your metaphysics you have denied personality to the Deity; yet when the devout... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1918 - 564 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 « new day. ... A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." — " Self- Reliance." Page... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1918 - 558 pages
...shoulder ? ... It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on your memory alone, but to bring the pas: 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 I6, note I.... | |
 | Percy Holmes Boynton - 1919 - 534 pages
...consistency. 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...Suppose you should contradict yourself ; what then ? . . . A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers... | |
 | Benjamin Alexander Heydrick - 1921 - 422 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...thousand-eyed present, and live ever in a new day. Trust your emotion. In your metaphysics you have denied personality to the Deity, yet when the devout... | |
 | Benjamin Alexander Heydrick - 1921 - 416 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, but to bring the past for judgment into the 304 THE REFLECTIVE ESSAY thousand-eyed present, and live ever in a new day. Trust your emotion. In... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1921 - 580 pages
...this monstrous corpse of your memory, lest you contradict somewhat you have stated in this or Athat public place? Suppose you should contradict yourself;...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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1921 - 584 pages
...to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on your 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 emotion. In your metaphysics you have denied personality to the Deity: yet when the devout... | |
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