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
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1911 - 148 pages
...On my saying, 5 What have I to do with the sacredness of traditions, if I live wholly from within? my friend suggested, — "But these impulses may be...the Devil." No law can be sacred to me but that of ic my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this ; the only right... | |
| Frederick William Roe, George Roy Elliott - 1913 - 512 pages
...church. 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...They do not seem to me to be such; but if I am the only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong what is against it. A man is to carry himself... | |
| Frederick William Roe, George Roy Elliott - 1913 - 512 pages
...church. 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...replied, " They do not seem to me to be such; but if I am 35 the devil's child, I will live then from the devil." No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature.... | |
| Stephen French Whitman - 1913 - 514 pages
...Emerson said about that? ' What have I to do with the sacredness of traditions, if I live from within? No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature.' And he was right. To be an individual, one must live his own life. "We don't all find our best satisfaction... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1915 - 200 pages
...church. 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..."They do not seem to me to be such; but if I am the 20 devil's child, I will live then from the devil." No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature.... | |
| Alice Hubbard - 1918 - 382 pages
...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 from...the Devil's child, I will live then from the Devil." <I No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature s* <I Good and bad are but names very readily transferable... | |
| Ulysses Grant King - 1921 - 302 pages
...if I live wholly from within?' my friend suggested, — 'But these impulses may be from below, and not from above.' I replied, 'They do not seem to me...sacred to me, but that of my nature. Good and bad are names very readily transferable to that or this, — the only right is what is after my constitution;... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1922 - 314 pages
...church. 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...replied, " They do not seem to me to be such ; but if 1 »" the Devil's child, I will live then from the Devil." No law can be sacred to me but that of my... | |
| Clifford Smyth - 1925 - 850 pages
...but must explore if it be goodness. Nothinc is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. ... No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature." Emerson's writings are strewn with pregnant sentences like these, sentences full of enthusiasm, of... | |
| Sybrandi Braak - 1923 - 224 pages
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