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" I shun father and mother and wife and brother, when my genius calls me. I would write on the lintels of the door-post, Whim. I hope it is somewhat better than whim at last, but we cannot spend the day in explanation. "
Select Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Page 116
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 351 pages
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College Life, Its Conditions and Problems: A Selection of Essays for Use in ...

Maurice Garland Fulton - 1914 - 556 pages
...some edge to it,— else it is none. The doctrine of hatred must be preached, as the counteraction of the doctrine of love, when that pules and whines....on the lintels of the door-post, Whim. I hope it is some, what better than whim at last, but we cannot spend the daj in explanation. Expect me not to show...
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Emerson's Essays on Manners, Self-reliance, Compensation, Nature, Friendship

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1915 - 200 pages
...some edge to it, — else it is none. The doctrine of hatred must be 10 preached, as the counteraction of the doctrine of love, when that pules and whines....is somewhat better than whim at last, but we cannot IS spend the day in explanation. Expect me not to show cause why I seek or why I exclude company. Then,...
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Types of the Essay

Benjamin Alexander Heydrick - 1921 - 416 pages
...some edge to it, — else it is none. The doctrine of hatred must be preached, as the counteraction of the doctrine of love, when that pules and whines....genius calls me. I would write on the lintels of the door post, Whim. I hope it is somewhat better than whim at last, but we cannot spend the day in explanation....
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Types of the Essay

Benjamin Alexander Heydrick - 1921 - 432 pages
...must be preached, as the counteraction of the doctrine of love, when that pules and whines. I ahun father and mother and wife and brother when my genius calls me. I would write on the lintels of the door post, Whim. I hope it is somewhat better than whim at last, but we cannot spend the day in explanation....
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Emerson's Essays and Poems: Selected and Edited with an Introd

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1926 - 412 pages
...some edge to it, — else it is none. The doctrine of hatred must be preached as the counteraction of the doctrine of love when that' pules and whines....genius calls me. I would write on the lintels of the dqorpost, Whim. I hope it is somewhat better than whim at las^T" but we cannot spend the day in explanation....
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Emerson: A Study of the Poet as Seer

Robert Malcolm Gay - 1928 - 276 pages
..."Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist." "No law can be sacred to me but that of my own nature." "I shun father and mother and wife and brother when my genius calls me." "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." "An institution is the lengthened shadow...
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The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 101

1908 - 908 pages
...able to say of us, "If I know your sect, I anticipate your argument." Rather we should be able to say, "I shun father and mother, and wife and brother, when my genius calls me." We believe that the Jewish home is the nursery for the perpetuation of idiosyncrasies which tend to...
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The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 101

1908 - 940 pages
...to say of us, "If I know your sect, I anticipate your ar-gument." Rather we should be able to say, "I shun father and mother, and wife and brother, when my genius calls me." We believe that the Jewish home is the nursery for the perpetuation of idiosyn-crasies which tend to...
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Themes Out of School: Effects and Causes

Stanley Cavell - 1988 - 430 pages
...Because Emerson has already shown his writing to be something that, so to speak, replaces religion ("I shun father and mother and wife and brother when my genius calls me") , and because it was always the only reason a good man could give for seeking the kingdom of heaven...
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The American Sublime

Mary Arensberg - 1986 - 242 pages
..."great and crescive self," the soul rejects family ties, and turns its attentions eclusively within.8 "I shun father and mother and wife and brother when my genius calls me."9 Such whim is not, of course, without its human implications, implications which force a choice...
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