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Page 35
Hear the rats in the wall , see the lizard on the fence , the fungus under foot , the lichen on the log . What do I know sympathetically , morally , of either of these worlds of life ? As old as the Caucasian man , - perhaps - older ...
Hear the rats in the wall , see the lizard on the fence , the fungus under foot , the lichen on the log . What do I know sympathetically , morally , of either of these worlds of life ? As old as the Caucasian man , - perhaps - older ...
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These are the voices which we hear in solitude , grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world . Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members . Society is a joint - stock company , in which ...
These are the voices which we hear in solitude , grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world . Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members . Society is a joint - stock company , in which ...
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... and I shall know you . Do your work , and you shall reinforce yourself . A man must consider what a blindman's - buff is this game of conformity . If I know your sect , I anticipate your argument . I hear a preacher announce for ...
... and I shall know you . Do your work , and you shall reinforce yourself . A man must consider what a blindman's - buff is this game of conformity . If I know your sect , I anticipate your argument . I hear a preacher announce for ...
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I hope in these days we have heard the last of conformity and consistency . Let the words be gazetted and ridiculous henceforward . Instead of the gong for dinner , let us hear a whistle from the Spartan fife .
I hope in these days we have heard the last of conformity and consistency . Let the words be gazetted and ridiculous henceforward . Instead of the gong for dinner , let us hear a whistle from the Spartan fife .
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Yet see what strong intellects dare not yet hear God himself , unless he speak the phraseology of I know not what David , or Jeremiah , or Paul . We shall not always set so great a price on a few texts , on a few lives .
Yet see what strong intellects dare not yet hear God himself , unless he speak the phraseology of I know not what David , or Jeremiah , or Paul . We shall not always set so great a price on a few texts , on a few lives .
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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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