 | Laurie Rozakis - 2003 - 434 pages
...elevated diction from philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson: "Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered...of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness." Note the difficult words (Whoso, nonconformist, hindered), long sentences, formal tone, and complex... | |
 | Stephen Young - 2003 - 248 pages
...should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within..." "Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind." "Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. Society is a... | |
 | Edward Keller, Jonathan Berry - 2003 - 368 pages
...must be a nonconformist." "What I must do is all that concerns me, not what others think"), integrity ("Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind"), not being afraid of striking out on a different course ("A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of... | |
 | 156 pages
...originality, prompting Emerson to proclaim that "whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist. . . . Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind." There are those who consider self-reliance too subjective as the basis of authority, but as Emerson... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2004 - 396 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...yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world. —SELF-RELIANCE Are you now or have you ever been a nonconformist? How difficult is it to be one?... | |
 | Viviane Serfaty - 2004 - 160 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...yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world. (Emerson 1841)- 6 When contrasting conformity with self-reliance, Emerson insists on the persistence... | |
 | Ken Wells - 2007 - 328 pages
...credo (by his hero, Emerson) up on the lobby walls: Who so would be a man must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered...at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. We went into the brewery office, a glassed-off fishbowl with a halfdozen Dilbert-like cubicles holding... | |
 | Laurie Rozakis - 2004 - 388 pages
...elevated diction from philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson: "Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered...of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness." * Vernacular. Here's some plain speaking from Mark Twain: "I do wonder what in the nation Words to... | |
 | Carl J. Richard - 2004 - 396 pages
...conspiracy against the manhood of its members. . . . Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist. . . . Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Emerson seemed to present a paradox: He who would be a man must behave like a child. He ignored all... | |
 | Douglass Shand-Tucci - 2004 - 436 pages
...of Whitman, Burroughs evoked Emerson's self-reliance (he'd have agreed with Emerson's statement that "nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind"), Melville's paranoid reading of the world as a system of coded symbols, and the later Twain's grimly... | |
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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. 
