The Essay on Self-relianceThe Roycrofters, 1908 - 82 pages |
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... is new in nature , and none but he knows what that is which he can do , nor does he know until he has tried Not for nothing one face , one charac- ter , one fact makes much impression on him , and another none . It is not 9.
... is new in nature , and none but he knows what that is which he can do , nor does he know until he has tried Not for nothing one face , one charac- ter , one fact makes much impression on him , and another none . It is not 9.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson. What pretty oracles nature yields us on this text in the face and behavior Self- of children ... faces , we are disconcerted . Infancy conforms to nobody : all conform to it , so that one babe com- monly makes four or ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson. What pretty oracles nature yields us on this text in the face and behavior Self- of children ... faces , we are disconcerted . Infancy conforms to nobody : all conform to it , so that one babe com- monly makes four or ...
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... face and figure , and acquire by degrees the gentlest asinine expres- sion There is a mortifying experience in particular which does not fail to wreck itself also in the general his- tory ; I mean , " the foolish face of praise , " the ...
... face and figure , and acquire by degrees the gentlest asinine expres- sion There is a mortifying experience in particular which does not fail to wreck itself also in the general his- tory ; I mean , " the foolish face of praise , " the ...
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... face . The bystanders look askance on him in the public street or in the friend's parlor . If this aversation had its origin in contempt and resistance like his own , he might well go home with a sad countenance ; but the sour faces of ...
... face . The bystanders look askance on him in the public street or in the friend's parlor . If this aversation had its origin in contempt and resistance like his own , he might well go home with a sad countenance ; but the sour faces of ...
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... face of custom , and trade , and office , the fact which is the upshot of all history , that there is a great responsible Thinker and Actor moving wherever moves a man ; that a true man belongs to no other time or place , but is the ...
... face of custom , and trade , and office , the fact which is the upshot of all history , that there is a great responsible Thinker and Actor moving wherever moves a man ; that a true man belongs to no other time or place , but is the ...
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