Emma

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On my saying, “What have I to do with the sacredness of traditions, if I live wholly from within?” my friend suggested,— “But these impulses may be from below, not from above.” I replied, “They do not seem to me to be such; but if I am the Devil’s child, I will live then from the Devil.” No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong what is against it.
Emma
Do what thou wilt
Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson
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