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It is the harder , because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it . It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to 21.
It is the harder , because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it . It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to 21.
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You may fulfil your round of duties by clearing yourself in the direct , or , in the reflex way . Consider whether you have satisfied your relations to father , mother cousin , neighbor , town , cat and dog ; whether any of these can ...
You may fulfil your round of duties by clearing yourself in the direct , or , in the reflex way . Consider whether you have satisfied your relations to father , mother cousin , neighbor , town , cat and dog ; whether any of these can ...
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also classifications of some powerful mind acting on the great elemental thought of Duty , and man's relation Selfto the Highest . Such is Calvanism , Reliance Quakerism , Swedenborgianism . The pupil takes the same delight in ...
also classifications of some powerful mind acting on the great elemental thought of Duty , and man's relation Selfto the Highest . Such is Calvanism , Reliance Quakerism , Swedenborgianism . The pupil takes the same delight in ...
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In manly hours , feel that duty is our place , and that the merrymen of circumstance should follow as they may . The soul is no traveler : the wise man stays at home with the soul , and when his necessities , his duties , on any ...
In manly hours , feel that duty is our place , and that the merrymen of circumstance should follow as they may . The soul is no traveler : the wise man stays at home with the soul , and when his necessities , his duties , on any ...
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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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