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... it will be found symmetrical , though I mean it not , and see it not . My book should smell of pines and resound with the hum of insects . The swallow over my window should interweave that thread or straw he carries 29.
... it will be found symmetrical , though I mean it not , and see it not . My book should smell of pines and resound with the hum of insects . The swallow over my window should interweave that thread or straw he carries 29.
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my window should interweave that thread or straw he carries in his bill Self- into my web also . We pass for what Reliance we are . Character teaches above our wills . Men imagine that they communicate their virtue or vice only by overt ...
my window should interweave that thread or straw he carries in his bill Self- into my web also . We pass for what Reliance we are . Character teaches above our wills . Men imagine that they communicate their virtue or vice only by overt ...
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a man claims to know and speak of God , and carries you backward to the phraseology of some old mould . Selfered nation in another country , in Reliance another world , believe him not . Is the acorn better than the oak which is its ...
a man claims to know and speak of God , and carries you backward to the phraseology of some old mould . Selfered nation in another country , in Reliance another world , believe him not . Is the acorn better than the oak which is its ...
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He carries ruins to ruins se je Traveling is a fool's paradise . We owe to our first journeys the discovery that place is nothing . At home I dream that at Naples , at Rome , I can be intoxicated with beauty , and lose my sadness .
He carries ruins to ruins se je Traveling is a fool's paradise . We owe to our first journeys the discovery that place is nothing . At home I dream that at Naples , at Rome , I can be intoxicated with beauty , and lose my sadness .
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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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