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There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance ; that imitation is suicide ; that he must take himself for better , for worse , as his portion ; that though the wide universe is full of ...
There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance ; that imitation is suicide ; that he must take himself for better , for worse , as his portion ; that though the wide universe is full of ...
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... against the manhood of every one of its members in Society is a joint - stock company in which the members agree for the better securing of his bread to each share - holder , to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater .
... against the manhood of every one of its members in Society is a joint - stock company in which the members agree for the better securing of his bread to each share - holder , to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater .
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I hope it is somewhat better than whim at last , but we cannot spend the day in explanation . Expect me not to show cause why I seek or why I exclude company . Then again , do not tell me , as a 18.
I hope it is somewhat better than whim at last , but we cannot spend the day in explanation . Expect me not to show cause why I seek or why I exclude company . Then again , do not tell me , as a 18.
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It is the harder , because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it . It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to 21.
It is the harder , because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it . It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to 21.
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Is the acorn better than the oak which is its fulness and completion ? se Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being ? Whence then this worship of the past ? sem The centuries are conspirators against ...
Is the acorn better than the oak which is its fulness and completion ? se Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being ? Whence then this worship of the past ? sem The centuries are conspirators against ...
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Bibliographic information
| 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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