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 - 1893 - 120 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 5 present, and live ever in a new day. In your... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1894 - 334 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...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... | |
| William James Potter - 1895 - 474 pages
...though they may be able to give a very poor logical account of themselves. As Emerson said of prayer, " 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... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1899 - 380 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... | |
| Israel C. McNeill, Samuel Adams Lynch - 1901 - 398 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 into240 the thousand-eyed present, and live ever in a new day. A foolish... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 66 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...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... | |
| Sherwin Cody - 1903 - 508 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 - 1903 - 478 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 - 1904 - 602 pages
...over your shoulder ? ... It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on your memory alone, but to bring the past for judgment into the thousand-eyed present, and live ever in a new day. ... A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." — " Self-Reliance." Page 16, note I.... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1909 - 512 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. Trust your... | |
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