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" 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. "
The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Page 247
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870
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Prophets of Dissent: Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy

Otto Heller - 1918 - 236 pages
...declaration of moral independence when he says : "Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by...at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature." 1 His attitude of countenancing the positive joys...
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Essays for College English

James Cloyd Bowman - 1918 - 504 pages
...realities and creators, but names and customs. Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by...goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but 'the integrity of our own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world. I remember an...
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Types of the Essay

Benjamin Alexander Heydrick - 1921 - 422 pages
...realities and creators, but names and customs. Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by...goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of our own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world. I remember an...
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Essays and Poems of Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1921 - 584 pages
...realities and creators, but names and customs. Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by...goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of our own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world. I remember an...
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Americans

Stuart Pratt Sherman - 1922 - 360 pages
...actuality. "Whoso would be a man," he declares in "Self-Reliance," "must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by...of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness." He does not take up the virtues so methodically and exhaustively as Franklin does. That is mainly because...
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The Outline of Literature, Volume 3

John Drinkwater - 1927 - 604 pages
...Almighty effort, and advancing on Chaos and the Dark Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by...yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world. . . . A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers...
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The Oral Study of Literature

Algernon de Vivier Tassin - 1923 - 456 pages
...have nothing to do! BAUBY PAIN 301. NONCONFORMITY Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by...yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world. . . . THE ORAL STUDY OF LITERATURE think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual...
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The Bookman, Volume 59

1924 - 1042 pages
...doubt; but it is what youth delights to hear. Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by...goodness, but must explore if it be goodness. Nothing at last is sacred but the integrity of your own mind. I remember an answer which when quite young I...
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Die Akademie: eine Sammlung von Aufsätzen aus dem Arbeitskreis der ...

Rolf Hoffmann - 1924 - 798 pages
...Sittlichkeit. »Whoso would be a man«, sagt Emerson, »must be a nonconformist«. Und er fügt hinzu: »He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by...of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness«. Emersons Moralkritik wendet sich mit freimütiger Kühnheit gegen soziale, kirchliche, konventionelle...
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The Genius of America: Studies in Behalf of the Younger Generation

Stuart Pratt Sherman - 1923 - 286 pages
...would be a man,' he declared in his famous essay on Self-Reliance, 'must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by...of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness.' No American ever lived whose personal life was more exemplary; or who expressed such perfect disdain...
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