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I believe in Eternity . I can find Greece , Asia , Italy , Spain , and the Islands , - the genius and creative principle of each and of all eras in We are always coming up with the emphatic facts of history in our private experience ...
I believe in Eternity . I can find Greece , Asia , Italy , Spain , and the Islands , - the genius and creative principle of each and of all eras in We are always coming up with the emphatic facts of history in our private experience ...
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To believe your own thought , to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men , - that is genius . Speak your latent conviction , and it shall be the universal sense ; for the inmost in due time becomes ...
To believe your own thought , to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men , - that is genius . Speak your latent conviction , and it shall be the universal sense ; for the inmost in due time becomes ...
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If , therefore , a man claims to know and speak of God , and carries you backward to the phraseology of some old mouldered nation in another country , in another world , believe him not . Is the acorn better than the oak which is its ...
If , therefore , a man claims to know and speak of God , and carries you backward to the phraseology of some old mouldered nation in another country , in another world , believe him not . Is the acorn better than the oak which is its ...
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Do not believe it . Nothing can bring you peace but yourself . Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles . COMPENSATION . The wings of Time are black and white SELF - RELIANCE . 79.
Do not believe it . Nothing can bring you peace but yourself . Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles . COMPENSATION . The wings of Time are black and white SELF - RELIANCE . 79.
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As the Sandwich Islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills passes into himself , so we gain the strength of the temptation we resist . The same guards which protect us from disaster , defect , and enmity ...
As the Sandwich Islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills passes into himself , so we gain the strength of the temptation we resist . The same guards which protect us from disaster , defect , and enmity ...
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| Title | Essays, First Series |
| Author | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Publisher | Phillips, Sampson & Company, 1852 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 1 Feb 2019 |
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