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Page 57
The other terror that scares us from self - trust is our consistency ; a reverence for our past act or pediency of one of the institutions of his church . word because the eyes of others have no other data SELF - RELIANCE . 57.
The other terror that scares us from self - trust is our consistency ; a reverence for our past act or pediency of one of the institutions of his church . word because the eyes of others have no other data SELF - RELIANCE . 57.
Page 57
The other terror that scares us from self - trust is our consistency ; a reverence for our past act or for computing our orbit than our past acts , and word because the eyes of others have no other data SELF - RELIANCE . 57.
The other terror that scares us from self - trust is our consistency ; a reverence for our past act or for computing our orbit than our past acts , and word because the eyes of others have no other data SELF - RELIANCE . 57.
Page 58
for computing our orbit than our past acts , and we are loath to disappoint them . But why should you keep your head over your shoulder ? Why drag about this corpse of your memory , lest you contradict somewhat you have stated in this ...
for computing our orbit than our past acts , and we are loath to disappoint them . But why should you keep your head over your shoulder ? Why drag about this corpse of your memory , lest you contradict somewhat you have stated in this ...
Page 66
Whenever a mind is simple and receives a divine wisdom , old things pass away , - means , teachers , texts , temples fall ; it lives now , and absorbs past and future into the present hour . All things are made sacred by relation to it ...
Whenever a mind is simple and receives a divine wisdom , old things pass away , - means , teachers , texts , temples fall ; it lives now , and absorbs past and future into the present hour . All things are made sacred by relation to it ...
Page 67
But man postpones or remembers ; he does not live in the present , but with reverted eye laments the past , or , heedless of the riches that surround him , stands on tiptoe to foresee the future . He cannot be happy and strong ...
But man postpones or remembers ; he does not live in the present , but with reverted eye laments the past , or , heedless of the riches that surround him , stands on tiptoe to foresee the future . He cannot be happy and strong ...
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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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