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" 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 47
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876
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Dark sayings on a harp; and other sermons

Edwin Paxton Hood - 1865 - 454 pages
...strength, we must harbour such disconsolate consciences." Again, he says : — " My friend suggested, tBut these impulses may be from below, not from above.'...They do not seem to me to be such ; but if I am the devif* child, I will live then for the devil. No law can be sacred to me but that of my own nature.'...
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The pilgrim and the shrine; or, Passages from the life and correspondence of ...

Edward Maitland - 1868 - 312 pages
...Do you remember,' asked Mary, ' that sentence of Emerson, "If I am the devil's child, I will live as from the devil. No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature." I was shocked by it when I first read it; but it seems plain that nothing can act contrary to its nature,...
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The Pilgrim and the Shrine: Or, Passages from the Life and Correspondence of ...

Edward Maitland - 1871 - 488 pages
...yon remember,' asked Mary, ' that sentence of Emerson, " If I am the devil's child, I will live as from the devil. No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature." I was shocked by it when I first read it; but it seems plain that nothing can act contrary to its nature,...
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Isms Old and New: Winter Sunday Evening Sermon-series for 1880-81 Delivered ...

George Claude Lorimer - 1881 - 388 pages
...distinguish by any favor; MORALITY AND VIRTUE. 75 she comes eating and drinking and sinning." . . . "My friend suggested : ' But these impulses may be...such, but if I am the devil's child I will live, then, for the devil. No law can be sacred to me but that of my own nature."' The tendency of such sentiments...
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Isms Old and New: Winter Sunday Evening Sermon-series for 1880-81 Delivered ...

George Claude Lorimer - 1881 - 388 pages
...I replied, 'They do not seem to me to be such, but if I am the devil's child I will live, then, for the devil. No law can be sacred to me but that of my own nature.'" The tendency of such sentiments as these, and they are creeping into our literature more...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: His Life, Writings, and Philosophy

George Willis Cooke - 1881 - 406 pages
...at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind," 5 because the mind is ,the descending Spirit. " No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature," 6 because it is the law pf the Over1 Society and Solitude, p. 274. a Essays, first series, p. 249....
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The Month, Volume 53

1885 - 670 pages
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The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Critical writings

Theodore Parker - 1865 - 324 pages
...integrity of your own mind." " The virtue most in request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion." " No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature, the only wrffRg what is against it." "Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love." " Your goodness...
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Emerson's Complete Works: Essays. 1st series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 352 pages
...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...sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are T)ut names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution...
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Emerson's Complete Works: Essays. 1st series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 350 pages
...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...the Devil's child, I will live then from the Devil." N0.Iaw can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable...
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