What have I to do with the sacredness of traditions, if I live wholly from within?" my friend suggested, — "But these impulses may be from below, not from above." I replied, "They do not seem to me to be such; but if I am the Devil's child. I will live... Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Page 47by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876Full view - About this book
| M. William Phelps - 2006 - 412 pages
...she put the receiver to her mouth. "I'm going to prove you are the liar, Carl." not from above . . . but if I am the Devil's child, I will live then from the Devil. — Ralph Waldo Emerson THE RUSE It was five days before the winter solstice. December 16, 2004, started... | |
| Harold Bloom - 2007 - 280 pages
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...republic: "Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members," and "no law can be sacred to me but that of my nature." Therefore, "whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist."42 The individualist keeps his distance and... | |
| Chana B. Cox - 2006 - 302 pages
...different ways. Emerson writes, "Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind" and "No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature," but Stanton writes of "the immeasurable solitude of self." And so it ever must be in the conflicting... | |
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| Len Gougeon - 2012 - 280 pages
...indicates. "On my saying What have I to do with the sacredness of traditions, if I live wholly from within? my friend suggested,— 'But these impulses may be...Devil's child, I will live then from the Devil.'" For Emerson, "sacredness" was now a matter of internal disposition and personal perception. He believed... | |
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