 The other terror that scares us from self-trust is our consistency; a reverence for our past act or word because the eyes of others have no other data for computing our orbit than our past acts, and we are loath to disappoint them.  Essays: First Series - Página 53por Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1894 - 322 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | University of Michigan. Dept. of Rhetoric and Journalism - 1924 - 460 páginas
...terror that scares us from self-trust is our consistency, a reverence for our past act or word because the eyes of others have no other data for computing...your head over your shoulder? Why drag about this corpse of your memory lest you contradict somewhat you have stated in this or that public place ? Suppose... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1924 - 152 páginas
...has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere - FROM ALI BEN ABU TALEB But why should you keep your head over your shoulder?...somewhat you have stated in this or that public place? Suppose you should contradict yourself; what then? . . . A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of... | |
 | Robert Shafer - 1926 - 1410 páginas
...that scares us from selftrust is our consistency; a reverence for our 334 335 past act or word because et. Whatever my own practice may be, I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the loth to disappoint them. Bur why should you keep your head over your shoulder? Why drag about this... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1926 - 398 páginas
...because the :yes of others have no other data for computing our orbit .han our past acts, and we are loth to disappoint them. But why should you keep your head over your shoulder? iVhy drag about this corpse of your memory, lest you ;ontradlct somewhat you have stated in this or... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1926 - 412 páginas
...other datafor computing than our ast, anf" find "m " nilith Tfl Pie"nr"iriT P'VPS of ot i . But wny should you keep your head over your shoulder? Why drag about this corpse of your memory, lest you contradict somewhat you have stated in this or that public place? Siipnpse... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Edward Douglas Snyder - 1927 - 1288 páginas
...that scarces us 40 from self-trust is our consistency; a reverence for our past act or word because the eyes of others have no other data for computing our orbit than our past acts, and we are loth to disappoint them. But why should you keep your head over your shoulder? Why drag about this... | |
 | Lucy Lockwood Hazard - 1927 - 344 páginas
...Emerson insisted that man should be independent even of his own past acts and words. "Why drag about this corpse of your memory lest you contradict somewhat you have stated in this or that public place? Suppose you should contradict yourself; what then?" With the same consummate nonchalance, Whitman says:... | |
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