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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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Tantalus is but a name for you Tantalus means the impossibility of drinking the waters of thought which are always gleaming and waving within sight of the soul . The transmigration of souls is no fable . I would it were ; but men and ...
Tantalus is but a name for you Tantalus means the impossibility of drinking the waters of thought which are always gleaming and waving within sight of the soul . The transmigration of souls is no fable . I would it were ; but men and ...
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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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I cannot consent to pay for a privilege where I have intrinsic right . Few and not need for my own assurance or the assurance of mean as my gifts may be , I actually am , and do 54 SELF - RELIANCE . ,
I cannot consent to pay for a privilege where I have intrinsic right . Few and not need for my own assurance or the assurance of mean as my gifts may be , I actually am , and do 54 SELF - RELIANCE . ,
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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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| 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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