 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
 | George Carpenter Clancy - 1928 - 288 pages
...and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another. . . . 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1979 - 434 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... | |
 | John Morris Dorsey - 1980 - 300 pages
...of thought which he most admired in his Emerson. One of his oft-quoted Emerson admonitions is that "he who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered...name of goodness but must explore if it be goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind." In the foreword of his American Government... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1983 - 1196 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... | |
 | Wayne W. Dyer - 1991 - 294 pages
...understood this better than anyone I've ever read. In Self-Reliance he said, Whoso would be a man, must be a non-conformist 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. Those are mighty powerful words, but... | |
 | Sanford Budick - 1996 - 372 pages
...critic of American culture more than Emerson. Emerson writes in "Self-Reliance": Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal...name of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness. ... If malice and vanity wear the coat of philanthropy, shall that pass? If any angry bigot assumes... | |
 | David Edwards - 1996 - 260 pages
...but to be real; only from this aim can virtuous lives and behaviour arise. As Emerson said so well: 'He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered...of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness.' 25 Like the Eastern sages, our society needs to grow out of its adolescent experimentation with inadequate... | |
 | Charles Horton Cooley - 1998 - 284 pages
...Emerson offers his calm, clear, and unmistakable counsel of self-reliance. "Trust thyself." "Whoso would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by...goodness but must explore if it be goodness." He does not say "follow your own instincts unless they seem to conflict with what the world recognizes as right... | |
 | Charles B. Guignon - 1999 - 350 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 your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall... | |
 | Wanda H. Ball, Pam Brewer - 2000 - 182 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 mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have... | |
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