The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays. 1st seriesHoughton Mifflin, 1903 |
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Page 53
... live . My life is for itself and not for a spectacle . I much prefer that it should be of a lower strain , so it be ... live after the world's opinion ; + it is easy in solitude to live after our own SELF - RELIANCE 53.
... live . My life is for itself and not for a spectacle . I much prefer that it should be of a lower strain , so it be ... live after the world's opinion ; + it is easy in solitude to live after our own SELF - RELIANCE 53.
Page 222
... live to the utility of the symbol , esteeming health and wealth a final good . Another class live above this mark to the beauty of the symbol , as the poet and artist and the naturalist and man of science . A third class live above the ...
... live to the utility of the symbol , esteeming health and wealth a final good . Another class live above this mark to the beauty of the symbol , as the poet and artist and the naturalist and man of science . A third class live above the ...
Page 246
... live ; to die Is to begin to live . It is to end An old , stale , weary work and to commence A newer and a better . ' Tis to leave Deceitful knaves for the society Of gods and goodness . Thou thyself must part At last from all thy ...
... live ; to die Is to begin to live . It is to end An old , stale , weary work and to commence A newer and a better . ' Tis to leave Deceitful knaves for the society Of gods and goodness . Thou thyself must part At last from all thy ...
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