...fails to meet his own standards, particularly when he speaks at the level of polite social interchange. "Every decent and well-spoken individual affects and sways me more than is right," he complains. "I ought to go upright and vital, and speak the rude truth in all ways." Why, then, doesn't...

...carry himself in the presence of all opposition as if every thing were titular and ephemeral but he. I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to...vanity wear the coat of philanthropy, shall that pass? I fan angry bigot assumes this bountiful cause of Abolition, and comes to me with his last news from...

...carry himself in the presence of all opposition, as if every thing were titular and ephemeral but he. I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to...and names, to large societies and dead institutions. — SELF-RELIANCE Do your beliefs come from traditions or "wholly from within"? Have you been told...

...carry himself in the presence of all opposition as if everything were titular and ephemeral but he. I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to...names, to large societies, and dead institutions," says Ralph W. Emerson. The situation of mankind seems now and always to have been that of a wide variability...

...about Americans' particular vulnerability to the comforts of joining a group. "I am ashamed to think of how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead institutions," he wrote (EL, 262). Caught in the vise of the avant-garde paradox, Ashbery's solution is, like Emerson's,...

...concur. But Emerson hedges slightly: "I ... ought to speak the rude truth," he vows, but finds that "every decent and well-spoken individual affects and sways me more than is right" (Essays 273, 262). Roth too is not as truculent as he advertises (the quote above from Zuckerman occurs...

...carry himself in the presence of all opposition, as if every thing were titular and ephemeral but he. I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to...and vital, and speak the rude truth in all ways... What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual...

...carry himself in the presence of all opposition, as if every thing were titular and ephemeral but he. I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to...societies and dead institutions. Every decent and well127 spoken individual affects and sways me more than is right. I ought to go upright and vital,...