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Representative Men: Seven Lectures - Page 10
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1857 - 285 pages
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Life of Horace Mann

Mary Tyler Peabody Mann - 1865 - 614 pages
...but only the well-poised soul will respond to them generously and faithfully. Emerson has truly said, "He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others ; " and again, " Man is that noble endogenous plant which grows from within outward." In speaking of...
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Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 500 pages
...quality to other men. And every one can do his best thing easiest. " Pen de moyens, beaucoup tfeffet" He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others.But he must be related to us, and our life receive from him some promise of explanation. I cannot...
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The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: In Two Volumes

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 500 pages
...quality to other men. And every one can do his best thing easiest. " Peu de moyens, beaucoup cVeffet." He is great who is what he is from nature, and who...some promise of explanation. I cannot tell what I wrould know ; but I have observed there are persons who, in their character and actions, answer questions...
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Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson ..., Volume 2

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1880 - 512 pages
...a wise soul to convey his quality to other men. And every one can' do his best thing easiest. " Pen de moyens, beaucoup d'effet." He is great who is what...promise of explanation. I cannot tell what I would know ; hut I have observed there are persons who, in their character and actions, answer questions which...
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Works

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 648 pages
...wise soul to convey his quality to other men. And every one can do his best thing easiest. "Peu tie the wi( ns, and our life receive from him some promise of explanation. I cannot tell what I would know ; but...
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Representative Men: Seven Lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 252 pages
...to other men. . And every one can do Ins best thing easiest. " feu de moyeiis, lieaucoiip d'eJVt." He is great who is *, what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others. • But lie must be related to us, and our life receive from him some promise of explanation. I cannot tell...
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Science, Volume 53

John Michels (Journalist) - 1921 - 620 pages
...the whole worth of mankind a good which we can not attain by following the lead of another people. " He is great who is what he is from nature and who never reminds us of others." Let us not run after the ways of another people. Let us also not run from the ways of another people....
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A Dictionary of Quotations in Prose: From American and Foreign Authors ...

Anna Lydia Ward - 1889 - 724 pages
...of the terror of life, and have manned themselves to face it. 2226 Emerson : Conduct of Life. Fate. He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others. 2227 Emerson : Representative Men. Uses of Great Men. Nothing is great but the inexhaustible wealth...
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Studies in Literature and Style

Theodore Whitefield Hunt - 1890 - 304 pages
...done otherwise had he wished. " Insist on yourself; never imitate," is his oft-repeated exhortation. " He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others." If he admires Plato and Shakespeare and the great ones of earth, it is, as Mr. Holmes expresses it,...
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Life and Works of Horace Mann, Volume 1

Horace Mann - 1891 - 608 pages
...but only the well-poised soul will respond to them generously and faithfully. Emerson has truly said, "He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others ; " and again, " Man is that noble endogenous plant which grows from within outward." In speaking of...
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