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I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names , to large societies and dead institutions . Every decent and well - spoken individual affects and sways me more than is right . I ought to go upright and vital ...
I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names , to large societies and dead institutions . Every decent and well - spoken individual affects and sways me more than is right . I ought to go upright and vital ...
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The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you , is , that it scatters your force de It loses your time and blurs the impression of your character . If you maintain a dead church , contribute to a dead Bible Society ...
The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you , is , that it scatters your force de It loses your time and blurs the impression of your character . If you maintain a dead church , contribute to a dead Bible Society ...
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( That popular fable of the sot who was picked up dead drunk in the street , carried to the duke's house , washed and dressed and laid in the duke's bed , and on his waking , treated with all obsequious ceremony like the duke ...
( That popular fable of the sot who was picked up dead drunk in the street , carried to the duke's house , washed and dressed and laid in the duke's bed , and on his waking , treated with all obsequious ceremony like the duke ...
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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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