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We but half express ourselves , and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents . It may be safely trusted as proportionate and of good issues , so it be faithfully imparted , but God will not have his work made manifest ...
We but half express ourselves , and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents . It may be safely trusted as proportionate and of good issues , so it be faithfully imparted , but God will not have his work made manifest ...
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Accept the place Selfthe divine Providence has found for Reliance you ; the society of your contemporaries , the connexion of events . Great men have always done so and confided themselves childlike to the genius of their age ...
Accept the place Selfthe divine Providence has found for Reliance you ; the society of your contemporaries , the connexion of events . Great men have always done so and confided themselves childlike to the genius of their age ...
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SelfAll my wilful actions and acquisitions Reliance are but roving ; the most trivial reverie , the faintest native emotion are domestic and divine . Thoughtless people contradict as readily the statement of perceptions as of opinions ...
SelfAll my wilful actions and acquisitions Reliance are but roving ; the most trivial reverie , the faintest native emotion are domestic and divine . Thoughtless people contradict as readily the statement of perceptions as of opinions ...
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Whenever a mind is simple , and receives a divine wisdom , then old things pass away , -means , teachers , texts , temples fall ; it lives now and absorbs past and future into the present hour . All things are made sacred by relation to ...
Whenever a mind is simple , and receives a divine wisdom , then old things pass away , -means , teachers , texts , temples fall ; it lives now and absorbs past and future into the present hour . All things are made sacred by relation to ...
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Thus all concentrates ; let us not rove ; let us sit at home with the cause . Let us stun and astonish the intruding rabble of men and books and institutions by a simple declaration of the divine fact . Bid them take the shoes 50.
Thus all concentrates ; let us not rove ; let us sit at home with the cause . Let us stun and astonish the intruding rabble of men and books and institutions by a simple declaration of the divine fact . Bid them take the shoes 50.
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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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