never to rely on your memory alone, scarcely even in acts of pure memory, but bring the past for judgment into the thousand-eyed present, and live ever in a new day. Trust your emotion. In your metaphysics you have denied personality to the Deity: yet... The Essay on Self-reliance - Page 22by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1908 - 59 pagesFull view - About this book
| William Mackintire Salter - 1879 - 64 pages
...conception. We may not indeed deny our impulses or refuse to allow the natural forms which they create. " In your metaphysics you have denied personality to...Deity ; yet when the devout motions of the soul come, yield to them heart and life, though they should clothe God with shape and color."* Yet we may not... | |
| Alfred Hudson Guernsey - 1881 - 340 pages
...It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely upon your memory even in acts of pure memory; but to bring the past for judgment into the thousand-eyed present, and live ever in a new day. In your metaphysics you have denied personality tp the Deity; and yet when the devout motions of the... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 360 pages
...public place ? Suppose you should contradict yourself ; what then ? It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on your memory alone, scarcely even in acts of pure memory, but to bring the past for judgment into the thousand-eyed present, and live ever in a new day. In your... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 356 pages
...that public place ? Suppose you should contradict yourself; what then? It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on your memory alone, scarcely even in acts of pure memory, but to bring the past for judgment into the thousand-eyed present, and live ever in a new day.. In your... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 618 pages
...public place ? Suppose you should contradict yourself ; what then ? It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on your memory alone, scarcely even in acts of pure memory, but to bring the past for judgment into the thousand-eyed present, and live ever in a new day. In your... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 556 pages
...that public place? Suppose you should contradict yourself; what then ? It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on your memory alone, scarcely even in acts of pure memory, but to bring the past for judgment into the thousand-eyed present, and live ever in a new day. In your... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 648 pages
...public place? Suppose you should contradict yourself ; what then ? It seems to 1 >ea rule of wisdom never to rely on your memory alone, scarcely even in acts of pure memory, but to bring the past for judgment into the thousand-eyed present, and live ever in a new day. In your... | |
| William Hague - 1884 - 84 pages
..."Self-Reliance" Mr. Emerson puts the central thought of his teaching in a short preceptive sentence, thus: " In your metaphysics you have denied personality to...Deity; yet when the devout motions of the soul come, yield to them heart and life, though they should clothe God with shape and color." This is an apt expression... | |
| 1894 - 674 pages
...come upon a faith more definite than this. They but reflect the announcements made in the Essays : " In your metaphysics, you have denied personality to...Deity ; yet when the devout motions of the soul come, yield to them heart and life, though they should clothe God with shape and color." % Herein we strike... | |
| James Thomson - 1892 - 300 pages
...haughty mind bows down that it may be exalted in worship, take the following : " Trust your emotions. In your metaphysics you have denied personality to the deity: yet when the devout emotions of the soul come, yield to them heart and life, though they should clothe God with shape and... | |
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