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" Societies;—though I confess with shame I sometimes succumb and give the dollar, it is a wicked dollar which by and by I shall have the manhood to withhold.^ Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the exception than the rule. There is the man and... "
Essays - Page 43
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884 - 538 pages
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Essays [1st ser., ed.] with preface by T. Carlyle

Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1841 - 408 pages
...sots; and the thousandfold Relief Societies; — though I confess with shame I sometimes suecumband give the dollar, it is a wicked dollar which by and...his virtues. Men do what is called a good action, as some piece of courage or charity, much as they would pay a fine in expiation of daily non-appearance...
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Essays, orations and lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...meeting-houses to the vain end to which many now stand ; alms to sots ; and the thousandfold Relief Societies—though I confess with shame I sometimes...which by and by I shall have the manhood to withhold. What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual...
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Essays, Lectures and Orations

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...the vain end to which many now stand; alms to sots ; and the thousandfold Relief Societies ;—though I confess with shame I sometimes succumb and give the dollar, it is a wicked dollar which by-and-by I shall have the manhood to withhold. Virtues are in the popular estimate rather the exception...
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Twelve essays [comprising Essays, 1st ser.].

Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...of meeting-houses to the vain end to which many now stand; alms to sots; and the thousandfold Relief Societies;—though I confess with shame I sometimes...succumb and give the dollar, it is a wicked dollar which by-ancl-by I shall have the manhood to withhold. Virtues are in the popular estimate rather the exception...
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 352 pages
...vain end to which many now stand ; alms to sots ; and the thousandfold Relief Societies ; — though I confess with shame I sometimes succumb and give the dollar, it is I wicked dollar which by and by I shall have the manhood to witbold. Virtues are, in the popular estimate,...
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Essays [1st ser., ed.] with preface by T. Carlyle

Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1853 - 214 pages
...of meetinghouses to the vain end to which many now stand; alms to sots; and the thousandfold Relief Societies;—though I confess with shame I sometimes...and give the dollar, it is a wicked dollar, which by-and-by I shall have the manhood to withhold. Virtues are in the popular estimate rather the exception...
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Essays [1st ser., ed.] with preface by T. Carlyle

Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1853 - 214 pages
...of meetinghouses to the vain end to which many now stand; alms to sots; and the thousandfold Relief Societies;—though I confess with shame I sometimes...and give the dollar, it is a wicked dollar, which by-and-by I shall have the manhood to withhold. Virtues are in the popular estimate rather the exception...
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The credentials of conscience: a few reasons for the popularity of [sir J.R ...

Maria Hall - 1868 - 410 pages
...with temptation ? But there is no merit in the matter; either God is there, or He is not there." " Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the exception...man and his virtues. Men do what is called a good adtion, as some piece of courage or charity, much as they would pay a fine in expiation of daily nonappearance...
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The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson. In Two Volumes, Volume 1

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 574 pages
...vain end to which many now stand ; alms to sots ; and the thousand-fold Relief Societies ; — though I confess with shame I sometimes succumb and give...his virtues. Men do what is called a good action, as some piece of courage or charity, much as they would pay a fine in expiation of daily non-appearance...
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Half truths and the truth, lects. on the origin and development of ...

Jacob Merrill Manning - 1872 - 544 pages
...to the vain end to which many now stand; alms to sots; and the thousandfold relief societies; though I confess with shame I sometimes succumb, and give...which by and by I shall have the manhood to withhold." 2 As if these words were not enough, he again says, in one of his later works, " Leave No philanthropist....
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