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It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on your memory alone , scarcely even in acts of pure memory , but bring the past for judgment into the thousand - eyed present , and live ever in a new day . Trust your emotion .
It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on your memory alone , scarcely even in acts of pure memory , but bring the past for judgment into the thousand - eyed present , and live ever in a new day . Trust your emotion .
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You will soon love what is dictated by your nature as well as mine , and if we follow the truth , it will bring us out safe at last . — But so you may give these friends pain se Yes , but I cannot sell my liberty and my power , to save ...
You will soon love what is dictated by your nature as well as mine , and if we follow the truth , it will bring us out safe at last . — But so you may give these friends pain se Yes , but I cannot sell my liberty and my power , to save ...
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... and you think good days are preparing for you . Do not believe it . It can never be so . Nothing can bring you peace but yourself w Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles . HERE THEN ENDETH THE ESSAY ON * SELF.
... and you think good days are preparing for you . Do not believe it . It can never be so . Nothing can bring you peace but yourself w Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles . HERE THEN ENDETH THE ESSAY ON * SELF.
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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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