Essays: First SeriesH. Altemus, 1899 - 322 pages |
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... young child plays with gray beards and in churches . Genius studies the causal thought , and far back in the womb of things , sees the rays parting from one orb , that diverge ere they fall by infinite diameters . Genius watches the ...
... young child plays with gray beards and in churches . Genius studies the causal thought , and far back in the womb of things , sees the rays parting from one orb , that diverge ere they fall by infinite diameters . Genius watches the ...
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... young child in repressing his spirits and courage , paralyzing the understanding , and that without producing indig- nation , but only fear and obedience , and even much sympathy with the tyrrany , -is a familiar fact explained to the ...
... young child in repressing his spirits and courage , paralyzing the understanding , and that without producing indig- nation , but only fear and obedience , and even much sympathy with the tyrrany , -is a familiar fact explained to the ...
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... Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of our own mind . Ab- solve you to yourself , and you shall have the suff- rage of the world . I remember an answer which when quite young I was prompted to make to a SELF - RELIANCE . 47.
... Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of our own mind . Ab- solve you to yourself , and you shall have the suff- rage of the world . I remember an answer which when quite young I was prompted to make to a SELF - RELIANCE . 47.
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First Series Ralph Waldo Emerson. when quite young I was prompted to make to a valued adviser who was wont to importune me with the dear old doctrines of the church . On my saying , " What have I to do with the sacred- ness of traditions ...
First Series Ralph Waldo Emerson. when quite young I was prompted to make to a valued adviser who was wont to importune me with the dear old doctrines of the church . On my saying , " What have I to do with the sacred- ness of traditions ...
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... young man will suffer twice . For non - conformity the world whips you with its displeasure . And therefore a man must know how to estimate a sour face . The bystanders look askance on him in the public street or in the friend's parlor ...
... young man will suffer twice . For non - conformity the world whips you with its displeasure . And therefore a man must know how to estimate a sour face . The bystanders look askance on him in the public street or in the friend's parlor ...
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