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Page 24
... does not fail to wreck itself also in the general history ; I mean , " the foolish face of praise , " the forced smile which we put on in company where we do not feel at ease in answer to conversation which does not interest us .
... does not fail to wreck itself also in the general history ; I mean , " the foolish face of praise , " the forced smile which we put on in company where we do not feel at ease in answer to conversation which does not interest us .
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But the man in the street finding no worth in himself which corresponds to the force which built a tower or sculptured a marble god , feels poor when he looks on these . To him a palace , a statue , or a costly book have an alien and ...
But the man in the street finding no worth in himself which corresponds to the force which built a tower or sculptured a marble god , feels poor when he looks on these . To him a palace , a statue , or a costly book have an alien and ...
Page 48
This which I think and feel , underReliance lay that former state of life and circumstances , as it does underlie my present , and will always all circumstance , and what is called life , and what is called death .
This which I think and feel , underReliance lay that former state of life and circumstances , as it does underlie my present , and will always all circumstance , and what is called life , and what is called death .
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He walks abreast with his days , and feels no shame in not “ studying a profession , " for he does not postpone his life , but lives already . He has not one chance , but a hundred chances . Let a stoic arise who shall reveal the ...
He walks abreast with his days , and feels no shame in not “ studying a profession , " for he does not postpone his life , but lives already . He has not one chance , but a hundred chances . Let a stoic arise who shall reveal the ...
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It will happen for a time , that the pupil will feel a real debt to the teacher ,will find his intellectual power has grown by the study of his writings . This will continue until he has exhausted his master's mind .
It will happen for a time , that the pupil will feel a real debt to the teacher ,will find his intellectual power has grown by the study of his writings . This will continue until he has exhausted his master's mind .
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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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