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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. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. "
Emerson's Complete Works: Essays. 1st series - Page 52
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883
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The Standard, Volume 2

1915 - 266 pages
...predominating in all their being. * * * Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of our own minds. Absolve you to yourself and you shall have the suffrage of the world." What an indictment of the fearsome "man-child" in the midst of free, contented, unashamed nature about...
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A History of American Literature Since 1870

Fred Lewis Pattee - 1917 - 474 pages
...and adopted his philosophy literally and completely: "Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist." "He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness." "Insist on yourself; never imitate." "Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self -helping man. For...
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Prophets of Dissent: Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy

Otto Heller - 1918 - 250 pages
...unqualified declaration of moral independence when he says: "Whoso would be a man musf be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered...at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature." l His attitude of countenancing the positive joys...
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Essays for College English

James Cloyd Bowman - 1918 - 504 pages
...loves not 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...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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Readings from Great Authors

John Haynes Holmes, Harvey Dee Brown, Helen Edmunds Redding, Theodora Goldsmith - 1918 - 120 pages
...always done so, betraying their perception that the absolutely trustworthy was seated at their heart. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Abide in the simple and noble regions of thine own life. Trust thyself. Every heart vibrates to that...
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Types of the Essay

Benjamin Alexander Heydrick - 1921 - 422 pages
...loves not 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...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 - 580 pages
...loves not realnd creators, but names and customs. ioso would be a man must be a nonconformist. He o 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
...truth, actuality. "Whoso would be a man," he declares in "SelfReliance," "must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered...of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness." He doesnot take up the virtues so methodically and exhaustivelyas Franklin does. That is mainly because...
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Reading the Gospels in the Dark: Portrayals of Jesus in Film

Richard Walsh - 2003 - 226 pages
...loves not 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...last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.:< takes away the sin of the world (John 1 :29), its cross is also more revelatory than redemptive, because...
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Radical Dreaming: Use Your Dreams to Change Your Life

John D. Goldhammer - 2003 - 356 pages
...Without integrity, we fall apart, dis-integrate; we lose touch with our own center. As Emerson observed, "Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your...yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world." Emerson seems to be saying that the very universe itself supports integrity. And, in his book Integrity...
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