EssaysJ. Munroe, 1841 - 303 pages |
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... believe in Eternity . I can find Greece , Palestine , Italy , Spain , and the Islands , - the genius and creative principle of each and of all eras in my own mind . We are always coming up with the facts that have moved us in history in ...
... believe in Eternity . I can find Greece , Palestine , Italy , Spain , and the Islands , - the genius and creative principle of each and of all eras in my own mind . We are always coming up with the facts that have moved us in history in ...
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... believe your own thought , to be- lieve that what is true for you in your private heart , is of setrue for all men , - that is genius . Speak your latent / conviction and it shall be the universal sense ; for al- ways the inmost becomes ...
... believe your own thought , to be- lieve that what is true for you in your private heart , is of setrue for all men , - that is genius . Speak your latent / conviction and it shall be the universal sense ; for al- ways the inmost becomes ...
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... believe him not . Is the acorn better than the oak which is its fulness and completion ? Is the parent ― better than the child into whom he has cast his ri- pened being ? Whence then this worship of the past ? The centuries are ...
... believe him not . Is the acorn better than the oak which is its fulness and completion ? Is the parent ― better than the child into whom he has cast his ri- pened being ? Whence then this worship of the past ? The centuries are ...
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... believe it . It can never be so . Nothing can bring you peace but yourself . No- thing can bring you peace but the triumph of prin- ciples . COMPENSATION . ESSAY III . COMPENSATION . EVER since I 4 SELF - RELIANCE . 73 .
... believe it . It can never be so . Nothing can bring you peace but yourself . No- thing can bring you peace but the triumph of prin- ciples . COMPENSATION . ESSAY III . COMPENSATION . EVER since I 4 SELF - RELIANCE . 73 .
Page 103
... believe in the riches of the soul , in its proper eternity and omnipresence . We do not believe there is any force in to - day to rival or re - cre- ate that beautiful yesterday . We linger in the ruins of the old tent , where once we ...
... believe in the riches of the soul , in its proper eternity and omnipresence . We do not believe there is any force in to - day to rival or re - cre- ate that beautiful yesterday . We linger in the ruins of the old tent , where once we ...
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