 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 - 1922 - 314 pages
...them. 13. 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...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... | |
 | Dorothy Canfield Fisher - 1922 - 522 pages
...word. . . . 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...yourself; what then? It seems to be a rule of wisdom ... to bring the past for judgment into the thousand-eyed present, and live ever in a new day. Leave... | |
 | University of Michigan. Department of Rhetoric and Journalism - 1923 - 444 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...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... | |
 | University of Michigan. Dept. of Rhetoric and Journalism - 1924 - 446 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...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 - 1924 - 152 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...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 - 1926 - 398 pages
...keep your head over your shoulder? iVhy drag about this corpse of your memory, lest you ;ontradlct somewhat you have stated in this or that public place? Suppose you should contradict yourself, what :hen? It seems to be_a rule of wisdom never to rely on ^our memory aloneTscarcely even in acts of pure... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1926 - 412 pages
...of ot i . But wny should you keep your head over your shoulder? Why drag about this corpse of your memory, lest you contradict somewhat you have stated in this or that public place? Siipnpse von shonld contradict vnnrsolf : what, then? It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to Kty... | |
 | Lucy Lockwood Hazard - 1927 - 344 pages
...man should be independent even of his own past acts and words. "Why drag about this corpse of your memory lest you contradict somewhat you have stated...Suppose you should contradict yourself; what then?" With the same consummate nonchalance, Whitman says: Do I contradict myself? Very well then, I contradict... | |
 | Wendy Martin - 1984 - 286 pages
...Reliance," Emerson asks, "Why drag about this corpse of your memory?," and he counsels his audience to "bring the past for judgment into the thousand-eyed present, and live ever in a new day." " Arbitrary categories of past, present, and future are mechanical divisions that serve the public... | |
 | Emory Elliott - 1988 - 1312 pages
...of conformity, and even his own past beliefs, in favor of a strenuous self-expressiveness that can "bring the past for judgment into the thousand-eyed present, and live ever in the new day." In its constant metaphoric equation of youthfulness with virtue, "SelfReliance" is in... | |
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