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Whence then this worship of the past ? sem The centuries are conspirators against the sanity and majesty of the soul . Time and space are but physiological colors which the eye maketh , but the soul is light ; where it is , is day ...
Whence then this worship of the past ? sem The centuries are conspirators against the sanity and majesty of the soul . Time and space are but physiological colors which the eye maketh , but the soul is light ; where it is , is day ...
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It is a perceiving that Truth and Right are . Hence it becomes a Tranquillity out of the knowing that all things go well . Vast spaces of nature ; the Atlantic Ocean , the South Sea ; vast intervals of time , years , centuries , are of ...
It is a perceiving that Truth and Right are . Hence it becomes a Tranquillity out of the knowing that all things go well . Vast spaces of nature ; the Atlantic Ocean , the South Sea ; vast intervals of time , years , centuries , are of ...
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intervals of time , years , centuries , are of no account . Self . This which I think and feel , underReliance lay that former state of life and circumstances , as it does underlie my present , and will always all circumstance ...
intervals of time , years , centuries , are of no account . Self . This which I think and feel , underReliance lay that former state of life and circumstances , as it does underlie my present , and will always all circumstance ...
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A singular equality may be observed between the great men of the first and of the last ages ; nor can all the science , art , religion and philosophy of the Nineteenth Century avail to educate greater men than Plutarch's heroes 75.
A singular equality may be observed between the great men of the first and of the last ages ; nor can all the science , art , religion and philosophy of the Nineteenth Century avail to educate greater men than Plutarch's heroes 75.
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Nineteenth Century avail to educate greater men than Plutarch's heroes , Self- three or four centuries ago . Not in Reliance time is the race progressive . Phocion , Socrates , Anaxagoras , Diogenes , are great men , but they leave no ...
Nineteenth Century avail to educate greater men than Plutarch's heroes , Self- three or four centuries ago . Not in Reliance time is the race progressive . Phocion , Socrates , Anaxagoras , Diogenes , are great men , but they leave no ...
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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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