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The cramping influence of a hard formalist on a young child , in repressing his spirits and courage , paralyzing the understanding , and that without producing indignation , but only fear and obedience , and even much sympathy with the ...
The cramping influence of a hard formalist on a young child , in repressing his spirits and courage , paralyzing the understanding , and that without producing indignation , but only fear and obedience , and even much sympathy with the ...
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It shall exclude example and experience. You take the way from man, not to man. All persons that ever existed are its forgotten ministers. Fear and hope are alike beneath it. There is somewhat 68 SELF-RELIANCE.
It shall exclude example and experience. You take the way from man, not to man. All persons that ever existed are its forgotten ministers. Fear and hope are alike beneath it. There is somewhat 68 SELF-RELIANCE.
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He would utter opinions on all passing affairs , which being seen to be not private but necessary , would sink like darts into the ear of men and put them in fear . These are the voices which we hear in solitude , but they grow faint ...
He would utter opinions on all passing affairs , which being seen to be not private but necessary , would sink like darts into the ear of men and put them in fear . These are the voices which we hear in solitude , but they grow faint ...
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Fear and hope are alike beneath it . There is somewhat low even in hope . In the hour of vision there is nothing that can be called gratitude , nor properly joy . The soul raised over passion beholds identity and eternal causation ...
Fear and hope are alike beneath it . There is somewhat low even in hope . In the hour of vision there is nothing that can be called gratitude , nor properly joy . The soul raised over passion beholds identity and eternal causation ...
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Friend , client , child , sickness , fear , want , charity , all knock at once at thy closet door and come not into their confusion . The power men possess say , • Come out unto us . ' But keep thy state ; SELF - RELIANCE . 71.
Friend , client , child , sickness , fear , want , charity , all knock at once at thy closet door and come not into their confusion . The power men possess say , • Come out unto us . ' But keep thy state ; SELF - RELIANCE . 71.
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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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