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Every thing tends in a wonderful manner to abbreviate itself and yield its own virtue to him . He should see that he can live all history in his own person . He must sit solidly at home , and not suffer himself to be bullied by kings or ...
Every thing tends in a wonderful manner to abbreviate itself and yield its own virtue to him . He should see that he can live all history in his own person . He must sit solidly at home , and not suffer himself to be bullied by kings or ...
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... every man in virtue of his being once a child ; besides that there . are always individuals who retain these characteristics . A person of childlike genius and inborn energy A is still a Greek , and revives our love of HISTORY . 23.
... every man in virtue of his being once a child ; besides that there . are always individuals who retain these characteristics . A person of childlike genius and inborn energy A is still a Greek , and revives our love of HISTORY . 23.
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Again , in that protest which each considerate person makes against the superstition of his times , he repeats step for step the part of old reformers , and in the search after truth finds like them new perils to virtue .
Again , in that protest which each considerate person makes against the superstition of his times , he repeats step for step the part of old reformers , and in the search after truth finds like them new perils to virtue .
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The shoes of swiftness , the sword of sharpness , the power of subduing the elements , of using the secret virtues of minerals , of understanding the voices of birds , are the obscure efforts of the mind in a right direction .
The shoes of swiftness , the sword of sharpness , the power of subduing the elements , of using the secret virtues of minerals , of understanding the voices of birds , are the obscure efforts of the mind in a right direction .
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Society is a joint - stock company , in which the members agree , for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder , to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater . The virtue in most request is conformity .
Society is a joint - stock company , in which the members agree , for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder , to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater . The virtue in most request is conformity .
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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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