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But the man is , as it were , clapped into jail by his consciousness . As soon as he has once acted or spoken with eclat , he is a committed person , watched by the sympathy or the hatred of hundreds whose affections must now enter into ...
But the man is , as it were , clapped into jail by his consciousness . As soon as he has once acted or spoken with eclat , he is a committed person , watched by the sympathy or the hatred of hundreds whose affections must now enter into ...
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All the foregone days of virtue work their health into this . What makes the majesty of the heroes of the senate and the field , which so fills the imagination ? The consciousness of a train of great days and victories behind .
All the foregone days of virtue work their health into this . What makes the majesty of the heroes of the senate and the field , which so fills the imagination ? The consciousness of a train of great days and victories behind .
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... pay for benefits not with money but with honors , and represent the Law in his person , was the hieroglyphic by which they obscurely signified their consciousness of their own right and comeliness , the right of every man .
... pay for benefits not with money but with honors , and represent the Law in his person , was the hieroglyphic by which they obscurely signified their consciousness of their own right and comeliness , the right of every man .
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tion of popular standards is a rejection of all standard , and mere antiSelf- nomianism ; and the bold sensualist Reliance will use the name of philosophy to gild his crimes se But the law of consciousness abides .
tion of popular standards is a rejection of all standard , and mere antiSelf- nomianism ; and the bold sensualist Reliance will use the name of philosophy to gild his crimes se But the law of consciousness abides .
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It is the spirit of God pronouncing His works good sto len But prayer as a means to effect a private end , is theft and meanness . It supposes dualism and not unity in nature and consciousness de As soon as the man is at one with God ...
It is the spirit of God pronouncing His works good sto len But prayer as a means to effect a private end , is theft and meanness . It supposes dualism and not unity in nature and consciousness de As soon as the man is at one with God ...
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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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