The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays. 1st seriesHoughton Mifflin, 1903 |
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... character . We honor the rich because they have externally the freedom , power , and grace which we feel to be proper to man , proper to us . So all that is said of the wise man by Stoic or Ori- ental or modern essayist , describes to ...
... character . We honor the rich because they have externally the freedom , power , and grace which we feel to be proper to man , proper to us . So all that is said of the wise man by Stoic or Ori- ental or modern essayist , describes to ...
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... character , so that he may justify his work to their eyes . If the labor is mean , let him by his thinking and character make it liberal . What- ever he knows and thinks , whatever in his apprehension is worth doing , that let him com ...
... character , so that he may justify his work to their eyes . If the labor is mean , let him by his thinking and character make it liberal . What- ever he knows and thinks , whatever in his apprehension is worth doing , that let him com ...
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... character of the several in- dividuals in his circle of friends ? No man . Yet their acts and words do not disappoint him . In that man , though he knew no ill of him , he put no trust . In that other , though they had seldom met ...
... character of the several in- dividuals in his circle of friends ? No man . Yet their acts and words do not disappoint him . In that man , though he knew no ill of him , he put no trust . In that other , though they had seldom met ...
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