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Ah ! brother , stop the ebb of thy soul , - ebbing downward into the forms into whose habits thou hast now for many years slid . As near and proper to us is also that old fable of the Sphinx , who was said to sit in the road - side and ...
Ah ! brother , stop the ebb of thy soul , - ebbing downward into the forms into whose habits thou hast now for many years slid . As near and proper to us is also that old fable of the Sphinx , who was said to sit in the road - side and ...
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I tell thee , thou foolish philanthropist , that I grudge the dollar , the dime , the cent , I give to such men as do not belong to me and to whom I do not belong .
I tell thee , thou foolish philanthropist , that I grudge the dollar , the dime , the cent , I give to such men as do not belong to me and to whom I do not belong .
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Speak thou , speak any man with us , and we will obey . ' Everywhere I am hindered of meeting God in my brother , because he has shut his own temple doors , and recites fables merely of his brother's , or his brother's brother's God .
Speak thou , speak any man with us , and we will obey . ' Everywhere I am hindered of meeting God in my brother , because he has shut his own temple doors , and recites fables merely of his brother's , or his brother's brother's God .
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Abide in the simple and noble regions of thy life , obey thy heart , and thou shalt reproduce the Foreworld again . 2 4. As our Religion , our Education , our SELF - RELIANCE , 73.
Abide in the simple and noble regions of thy life , obey thy heart , and thou shalt reproduce the Foreworld again . 2 4. As our Religion , our Education , our SELF - RELIANCE , 73.
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Ask nothing of men , and in the endless mutation , thou only firm column must presently appear the upholder of all that surrounds thee . He who knows that power is inborn , that he is weak because he has looked for good out of him and ...
Ask nothing of men , and in the endless mutation , thou only firm column must presently appear the upholder of all that surrounds thee . He who knows that power is inborn , that he is weak because he has looked for good out of him and ...
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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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