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" 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 ? It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on your memory alone, scarcely even... "
The Lutheran Home Journal - Page 179
1858
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - Essays - 1841 - 324 pages
...the eyes of others 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...memory, lest you contradict somewhat you have stated te"thte or that public place? Suppose you should contradict yourself; what then ? It seems to be a...
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The Eclectic Review, Volume 12; Volume 76

Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - English literature - 1842 - 782 pages
...After stating that a regard for consistency often ' scares us from our self-trust,' he asks, — ' But why should you keep your head over your shoulder?...Suppose you should contradict yourself; what then?'— Essay ii., p. 57. Why — it depends on the kind and frequency of the contradiction. Nature is not...
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The Eclectic review. vol. 1-New [8th]

1842 - 740 pages
...After stating that a regard for consistency often ' scares us from our self-trust,' he asks, — ' But why should you keep your head over your shoulder?...contradict somewhat you have stated in this or that public places' Suppose you should contradict yourself; what then:'' — Essay ii., p. 57. Why — it depends...
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 354 pages
...the eyes of others 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 4 memory, lest you contradict somewhat you have stated in this or that public place...
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Essays, orations and lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...the eyes of others 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...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...
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Twelve essays [comprising Essays, 1st ser.].

Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...the eyes of others 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 1 Why drag about this monstrous corpse of your memory, lest you contradict somewhat you have stated...
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 352 pages
...the eyes of others 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 4 memory, lest you contradict somewhat you have stated in this or that public place...
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Essays, First Series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 354 pages
...the eyes of others 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 ?...
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Beulah: A Novel

Augusta Jane Evans - 1859 - 518 pages
...to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said to-day. 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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Beulah

Augusta Jane Evans - Fiction - 1860 - 528 pages
...head over your shoulder ? Why drag about this corpse of your memory, lest you contradict somewhat yon have stated in this or that public place ? Suppose you should contradict yourself?' His writings are, to me, like heaps of broken glass, beautiful in the individual crystal, sparkling,...
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