 Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness.  Essays and Poems of Emerson - Page xxvby Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1921 - 525 pagesFull view - About this book
 | fred lewis pattee - 1915 - 522 pages
...fact. He read Emerson and adopted his philosophy literally and completely: '' Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist." "He who would gather immortal...palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness." "Insist on yourself; never imitate." "Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man. For... | |
 | James Cloyd Bowman - 1918 - 504 pages
...Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs. Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal...name of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but 'the integrity of our own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall... | |
 | Otto Heller - 1918 - 250 pages
...with Emerson's unqualified declaration of moral independence when he says: "Whoso would be a man musf be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms...name of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. No law can be sacred to me but that of... | |
 | Benjamin Alexander Heydrick - 1921 - 432 pages
...is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs. Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal...name of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of our own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall... | |
 | Stuart Pratt Sherman - 1922 - 364 pages
...hurtful, the nature of man alone considered." Emerson as moralist takes up the work which Frnaklin's political duties prevented him from carrying out....will result with a kind of instinctive and inevitable Tightness. "The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues," he says in "Spiritual Laws," "the better... | |
 | Clifford Smyth - 1925 - 850 pages
...scarcely be set down as a classicist. Neither does this sound like conservatism: "Whoso would be a man must be a non-conformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered l>y the name of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness. Nothinc is at last sacred but the integrity... | |
 | University of Michigan. Department of Rhetoric and Journalism - 1923 - 444 pages
...Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs. Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal...name of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall... | |
 | Algernon de Vivier Tassin - 1923 - 456 pages
...enjoyment, And yet, like my title, have nothing to do! BAUBY PAIN 301. NONCONFORMITY Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal...name of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall... | |
 | John Drinkwater - 1927 - 604 pages
...benefactors, obeying the Almighty effort, and advancing on Chaos and the Dark Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal...name of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall... | |
 | Stuart Pratt Sherman - 1923 - 286 pages
...vision of sincerity, truth, and actuality. 'Whoso would be a man,' he declared in his famous essay on Self-Reliance, 'must be a nonconformist. He who would...of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness.' No American ever lived whose personal life was more exemplary; or who expressed such perfect disdain... | |
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