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Books , monuments , pictures , conversation , are portraits in which he finds the lineaments he is forming . The silent and the eloquent praise him and accost him , and he is stimulated wherever ho moves , as by personal allusions .
Books , monuments , pictures , conversation , are portraits in which he finds the lineaments he is forming . The silent and the eloquent praise him and accost him , and he is stimulated wherever ho moves , as by personal allusions .
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Man is the broken giant , and in all his weakness both his body and his mind are invig , and me . power of music , the power of orated by habits of conversation with nature . The 31 HISTORY .
Man is the broken giant , and in all his weakness both his body and his mind are invig , and me . power of music , the power of orated by habits of conversation with nature . The 31 HISTORY .
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... I mean " the foolish face of praise , ” the forced smile which we put on in company where we do not feel at ease , in answer to conversation taneously moved but moved by a low usurping wilfulness , which does not interest us .
... I mean " the foolish face of praise , ” the forced smile which we put on in company where we do not feel at ease , in answer to conversation taneously moved but moved by a low usurping wilfulness , which does not interest us .
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... I mean “ the foolish face of praise , ” the forced smile which we put on in company where we do not feel at ease , in answer to conversation taneously moved but moved by a low usurping wilfulness , which does not interest us .
... I mean “ the foolish face of praise , ” the forced smile which we put on in company where we do not feel at ease , in answer to conversation taneously moved but moved by a low usurping wilfulness , which does not interest us .
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For men are wiser than they know . That which they hear in schools and pulpits probably be questioned in silence . If a man dogmatize without afterthought , if said in conversation would COMPENSATION . 93.
For men are wiser than they know . That which they hear in schools and pulpits probably be questioned in silence . If a man dogmatize without afterthought , if said in conversation would COMPENSATION . 93.
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| Title | Essays, First Series Volume 2 of Works, Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Author | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Publisher | John B. Alden, 1886 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 15 Nov 2007 |
| Length | 343 pages |
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