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Ralph Waldo Emerson. CONTENTS . ESSAY I. HISTORY PAGE 1 ESSAY 11 . SELF - RELIANCE 37 ESSAY III . COMPENSATION 81 ESSAY IV . SPIRITUAL LAWS ESSAY V. LOVE • FRIENDSHIP • • 115 151 ESSAY VI . 173 199 221 241 • 271 • 293 315 HISTORY .
Ralph Waldo Emerson. CONTENTS . ESSAY I. HISTORY PAGE 1 ESSAY 11 . SELF - RELIANCE 37 ESSAY III . COMPENSATION 81 ESSAY IV . SPIRITUAL LAWS ESSAY V. LOVE • FRIENDSHIP • • 115 151 ESSAY VI . 173 199 221 241 • 271 • 293 315 HISTORY .
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... friendship and love , and of the heroism and grandeur which belong to acts of self - reliance . It is remarkable that involuntarily we always read as su- perior beings . Universal history , the poets , the ro- mancers , do not in their ...
... friendship and love , and of the heroism and grandeur which belong to acts of self - reliance . It is remarkable that involuntarily we always read as su- perior beings . Universal history , the poets , the ro- mancers , do not in their ...
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... friendship or love known and described in society , but , as it seems to me , to a quite other and unattain- able sphere , to relations of transcendent delicacy and sweetness , to what roses and violets hint and fore- show . We cannot ...
... friendship or love known and described in society , but , as it seems to me , to a quite other and unattain- able sphere , to relations of transcendent delicacy and sweetness , to what roses and violets hint and fore- show . We cannot ...
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... be trusted to the end . That which is so beautiful and attractive as these relations must be succeeded and supplanted only by what is more beautiful , and so on for ever . FRIENDSHIP . A ruddy drop of manly blood The surging LOVE . 171.
... be trusted to the end . That which is so beautiful and attractive as these relations must be succeeded and supplanted only by what is more beautiful , and so on for ever . FRIENDSHIP . A ruddy drop of manly blood The surging LOVE . 171.
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... the mill - round of our fate A sun - path in thy worth . Me too thy nobleness has taught To master my despair ; The fountains of my hidden life Are through thy friendship fair . ESSAY VI . FRIENDSHIP . WE have a great deal.
... the mill - round of our fate A sun - path in thy worth . Me too thy nobleness has taught To master my despair ; The fountains of my hidden life Are through thy friendship fair . ESSAY VI . FRIENDSHIP . WE have a great deal.
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