 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 466 pages
...such ; but if I am the Devil's child, I will live then from the Devil." No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names...thing were titular and ephemeral but he. I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead institutions. Every... | |
 | Sherwin Cody - 1903 - 476 pages
...such ; but if I am the Devil's child, I will live then from the Devil." No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names...carry himself in the presence of all opposition, as if everything were titular and ephemeral but him. I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 842 pages
...be such; but if I am the Devil's child, I will live then from the Devil." No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names...constitution ; the only wrong what is against it. A man is to-carry himself in the presence of all opposition as if every thing were titular and ephemeral but... | |
 | Horatio Willis Dresser - 1903 - 468 pages
...retrospect, and, I cannot doubt, it will be found symmetrical, though I mean it not and see it not. . . . Good and bad are but names very readily transferable...my constitution, the only wrong what is against it. ... We first share the life by which things exist, and afterwards see them as appearances in nature,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 362 pages
...such; but if I am the Devil's child, I will live then from the Devil. " No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names...opposition as if every thing were titular and ephemeral but he.5 I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead... | |
 | John Burroughs - 1904 - 336 pages
...and knows that his will is higher and more excellent than all actual and all possible antagonists." "A man is to carry himself in the presence of all opposition as if everything were titular and ephemeral but he." "Great works of art," he again saySj "teach us to abide... | |
 | John Burroughs - 1904 - 336 pages
...and knows that his will is higher and more excellent than all actual and all possible antagonists." "A man is to carry himself in the presence of all opposition as if everything were titular and ephemeral but he." "Great works of art," he again says, "teach us to abide... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1905 - 70 pages
...such ; but if I am the devil's child, I will live then from the devil.' No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names...thing were titular and ephemeral but he. I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead 7 institutions.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1905 - 138 pages
...NOVEMBER ELEVENTH We cannot describe the natural history of the soul, but we know that it is diyine. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable...if every thing were titular and ephemeral but he. SELF-RELIANCE NOVEMBER THIRTEENTH One thing is forever good, That one thing is success, — Dear to... | |
 | Oscar Lovell Triggs - 1905 - 312 pages
...general would adopt the saying of Emerson : "Virtue is the adherence in action to the nature of things: The only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong is what is against it." And if the retort be made : "These impulses may be from below," Whitman would... | |
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No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is •what is after my constitution, the only wrong what is against it. 
