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 52 by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 333 pages Full view - About this book
...not the slave of your own past. In your prayer, in your teaching cumber not yourself with solicitude lest you contradict somewhat you have stated in this or that public place. So you worship the dull God Terminus & not the Lord of Lords. But dare rather to quit the platform,...