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What is the nature and power of that sciencebaffling star , without parallax , without calculable elements , which shoots a ray of beauty even into triv . ial and impure actions , if the least mark of independence appear ?
What is the nature and power of that sciencebaffling star , without parallax , without calculable elements , which shoots a ray of beauty even into triv . ial and impure actions , if the least mark of independence appear ?
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can and must detach themselves ; that with the exercise of self - trust , Self- new powers shall appear ; that a Reliance man is the word made flesh , born to shed healing to the nations , that he should be ashamed of our compassion ...
can and must detach themselves ; that with the exercise of self - trust , Self- new powers shall appear ; that a Reliance man is the word made flesh , born to shed healing to the nations , that he should be ashamed of our compassion ...
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Reliance ently appear the upholder of all that surrounds thee . He who knows that power is in the soul , that he is weak only because he has looked for good out of him and elsewhere , and so perceiving , throws himself unhesitatingly on ...
Reliance ently appear the upholder of all that surrounds thee . He who knows that power is in the soul , that he is weak only because he has looked for good out of him and elsewhere , and so perceiving , throws himself unhesitatingly on ...
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| Title | The Essay on Self-reliance |
| Author | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Publisher | The Roycrofters, 1908 |
| Original from | The Ohio State University |
| Digitized | 8 Dec 2015 |
| Length | 82 pages |
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