The Essay on Self-relianceThe Roycrofters, 1908 - 82 pages |
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Page 20
... called a good action , as some piece of courage or charity , much as they would pay a fine in expiation of daily non - appearance on parade . Their works are done as an apology or extenuation of their living in the world , -as invalids ...
... called a good action , as some piece of courage or charity , much as they would pay a fine in expiation of daily non - appearance on parade . Their works are done as an apology or extenuation of their living in the world , -as invalids ...
Page 35
... called " the height of Rome ; " and all history Self- resolves itself very easily into the Reliance biography of a stout and earnest per- son . Let a man then know his worth , and keep things under his feet . Let him not peep or steal ...
... called " the height of Rome ; " and all history Self- resolves itself very easily into the Reliance biography of a stout and earnest per- son . Let a man then know his worth , and keep things under his feet . Let him not peep or steal ...
Page 47
... called gratitude nor properly joy . The soul is raised over passion ☛ It seeth identity and eternal causation . It is a perceiving that Truth and Right are . Hence it becomes a Tranquillity out of the knowing that all things go well ...
... called gratitude nor properly joy . The soul is raised over passion ☛ It seeth identity and eternal causation . It is a perceiving that Truth and Right are . Hence it becomes a Tranquillity out of the knowing that all things go well ...
Page 48
... called life , and what is called death . Life only avails , not the having lived . Power ceases in the instant of re- pose ; it resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state ; in the shooting of the gulf ; in the ...
... called life , and what is called death . Life only avails , not the having lived . Power ceases in the instant of re- pose ; it resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state ; in the shooting of the gulf ; in the ...
Page 56
... own stern claims and per- fect circle . It denies the name of duty to many offices that are called duties . But if I can discharge its debts , it enables me to dispense with the popular code . If any one ima- gines that 56.
... own stern claims and per- fect circle . It denies the name of duty to many offices that are called duties . But if I can discharge its debts , it enables me to dispense with the popular code . If any one ima- gines that 56.
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