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Page 9
... resides in him is new in nature , and none but he knows what that is which he can do , nor does he know until he has tried so Not for nothing one face , one character , one fact makes much impression on him , and another none .
... resides in him is new in nature , and none but he knows what that is which he can do , nor does he know until he has tried so Not for nothing one face , one character , one fact makes much impression on him , and another none .
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How is a boy the master of society 1 - independent , irresponsible , looking out from his corner on such people and facts as pass by , he tries and sentences them on their merits , in the swift summary way of boys , as good , bad , 13.
How is a boy the master of society 1 - independent , irresponsible , looking out from his corner on such people and facts as pass by , he tries and sentences them on their merits , in the swift summary way of boys , as good , bad , 13.
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... 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 centre of things .
... 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 centre of things .
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... washed and dressed and laid in the duke's bed , and on his waking , treated with all obsequious ceremony like the duke , and assured that he had been insane , owes its popularity to the fact , that it symbolizes so well the state of ...
... washed and dressed and laid in the duke's bed , and on his waking , treated with all obsequious ceremony like the duke , and assured that he had been insane , owes its popularity to the fact , that it symbolizes so well the state of ...
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In that deep force , the last fact behind which analysis cannot go , all things find their common origin . For the sense of being which in calm hours rises , we know not how , in the soul , is not diverse from things , from space ...
In that deep force , the last fact behind which analysis cannot go , all things find their common origin . For the sense of being which in calm hours rises , we know not how , in the soul , is not diverse from things , from space ...
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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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