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" Why drag about this monstrous corpse of your memory, lest you contradict somewhat you have stated in this or that public place? Suppose you should contradict yourself; what then? It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on your memory alone, scarcely... "
Select Essays and Poems - Page 19
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 120 pages
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Readings from American Literature: A Textbook for Schools and Colleges

Mary Edwards Calhoun, Emma Leonora MacAlarney - American literature - 1915 - 670 pages
...mow, it needs the habit of magnanimity and religion to treat it godlike as a trifle of no concernment. But why 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 ?...
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English and Engineering

Frank Aydelotte - Engineering - 1917 - 420 pages
...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 corpse of your memory, lest you contradict somewhat you have stated in this or that public place ?...
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An American Bible

Alice Hubbard - Conduct of life - 1918 - 382 pages
...other data for computing our orbit than our past acts, and we are loath to disappoint them sť sť <I But why should you keep your head over your shoulder?...memory alone, scarcely even in acts of pure memory, but to bring the past for judgment into the thousand-eyed present, and live ever in a new day. Trust your...
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Essays for College English

James Cloyd Bowman - American essays - 1918 - 504 pages
...have no other data for computing our orbit than our past acts, and we are loath to disappoint them. But why should you keep your head over your shoulder?...memory alone, scarcely even in acts of pure memory, but to bring the past for judgment into the thousand-eyed present, and live ever in a new day. Trust your...
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A History of American Literature

Percy Holmes Boynton - Literary Criticism - 1919 - 530 pages
...own ideas on consistency. But why should you keep your head over your shoulder? Why drag about this corpse of your memory, lest you contradict somewhat...Suppose you should contradict yourself; what then ? . . . A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers...
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Types of the Essay

Benjamin Alexander Heydrick - American essays - 1921 - 422 pages
...have no other data for computing our orbit than our past acts, and we are loath to disappoint them. But why should you keep your head over your shoulder?...memory alone, scarcely even in acts of pure memory, but to bring the past for judgment into the thousand-eyed present, and live ever in a new day. Trust your...
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Essays and Poems of Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1921 - 580 pages
...have no other data for computing our orbit than our past acts, and we are loath to disappoint them. But why should you keep your head over your shoulder?...you contradict somewhat you have stated in this or Athat public place? Suppose you should contradict yourself; what then? It seems to be a rule of wisdom...
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Select Essays and Addresses, Including The American Scholar

Ralph Waldo Emerson - American essays - 1922 - 314 pages
...themselves. But when to their feminine rage the indignation of the people is added, when the ignorant and the poor are aroused, when the unintelligent brute force...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 ?...
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Rough-hewn

Dorothy Canfield Fisher - 1922 - 522 pages
...terror that scares us from self-trust is our consistency; a reverence for our past act or word. . . . But why 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? Suppose...
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Adventures in Essay Reading: Essays for First-year Students Selected by the ...

University of Michigan. Department of Rhetoric and Journalism - American essays - 1923 - 444 pages
...have no other data for computing our orbit than our past acts, and we are loath to disappoint them. But why 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? Suppose...
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