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What the former age has epitomized into a formula or rule for manipular convenience , it will lose all the good of verifying for itself , by means of the wall of that rule . Somewhere , sometime , it will demand and find compensation ...
What the former age has epitomized into a formula or rule for manipular convenience , it will lose all the good of verifying for itself , by means of the wall of that rule . Somewhere , sometime , it will demand and find compensation ...
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I can symbolize my thought by using the name of any creature , of any fact , because every creature is man agent or patient . Tantalus is but Tantalus means the impossibility of drinking the waters of thought which are always gleaming.
I can symbolize my thought by using the name of any creature , of any fact , because every creature is man agent or patient . Tantalus is but Tantalus means the impossibility of drinking the waters of thought which are always gleaming.
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That divided and rebel mind , that distrust of a sentiment because our arithmetic has computed the strength and means opposed to our purpose , these have not . Their mind being whole , their eye is as yet unconquered , and when we look ...
That divided and rebel mind , that distrust of a sentiment because our arithmetic has computed the strength and means opposed to our purpose , these have not . Their mind being whole , their eye is as yet unconquered , and when we look ...
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Few and mean as my gifts may be , I actually am , and do not need for my own assurance or the assurance of my fellows any secondary testimony . What I must do is all that concerns me , not what the people think .
Few and mean as my gifts may be , I actually am , and do not need for my own assurance or the assurance of my fellows any secondary testimony . What I must do is all that concerns me , not what the people think .
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There is a mortifying experience in particular , which does not fail to wreak itself also in the general history ; I mean " the foolish face of praise , " the ; forced smile which we put on in company where we do ...
There is a mortifying experience in particular , which does not fail to wreak itself also in the general history ; I mean " the foolish face of praise , " the ; forced smile which we put on in company where we do ...
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Bibliographic information
| 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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