 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
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1983 - 1196 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... | |
 | Wendy Martin - 1984 - 286 pages
...Reliance," Emerson asks, "Why drag about this corpse of your memory?," and he counsels his audience to "bring the past for judgment into the thousand-eyed present, and live ever in a new day." " Arbitrary categories of past, present, and future are mechanical divisions that serve the public... | |
 | Emory Elliott - 1988 - 1312 pages
...of conformity, and even his own past beliefs, in favor of a strenuous self-expressiveness that can “bring the past for judgment into the thousand-eyed present, and live ever in the new' day.” In its constant metaphoric equation of youthfulness with virtue, “SelfReliance”... | |
 | Emory Elliott - 1988 - 1312 pages
...of conformity, and even his own past beliefs, in favor of a strenuous self-expressiveness that can "bring the past for judgment into the thousand-eyed present, and live ever in the new day." In its constant metaphoric equation of youthfulness with virtue, "SelfReliance" is in... | |
 | Ronald J. Zboray - 1993 - 349 pages
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 | Herbert Grabes - 1994 - 454 pages
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 | Graham Parkes - 1994 - 514 pages
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 | Keith Frome, Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1996 - 156 pages
...above time, ‘Self'Reliance.' Essays: First Series(,Os,. reps: ,O.s7(. 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 thouasnd-eyed present, and live ever in a new day. ‘Setf'Retiance.'... | |
 | Mark C. Taylor - 1998 - 446 pages
...women and men—even those who did not know they had a metaphysics—fol-lowed Emerson's suggestion: "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. Leave your theory,... | |
 | Mark C. Taylor - 1998 - 446 pages
...women and men—even those who did not know they had a metaphysics—followed Emerson's suggestion: "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. Leave your theory,... | |
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