The Essay on Self-relianceThe Roycrofters, 1908 - 82 pages |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson. Cast the bantling on the rocks , Suckle him with a she - wolf's teat : Wintered with the hawk and fox , Power and speed be hands and feet . 1 Self - Reliance READ the other day some verses.
Ralph Waldo Emerson. Cast the bantling on the rocks , Suckle him with a she - wolf's teat : Wintered with the hawk and fox , Power and speed be hands and feet . 1 Self - Reliance READ the other day some verses.
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... feet . Let him not peep or steal , or skulk up and down with the air of a charity- boy , a bastard , or an interloper , in the world which exists for him . But the man in the street finding no worth in himself which corresponds to the ...
... feet . Let him not peep or steal , or skulk up and down with the air of a charity- boy , a bastard , or an interloper , in the world which exists for him . But the man in the street finding no worth in himself which corresponds to the ...
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... feet , for God is here within . Let our simplicity Self- judge them , and our docility to our Reliance own law demonstrate the poverty of nature and fortune beside our native riches o But now we are a mob . Man does not stand in awe of ...
... feet , for God is here within . Let our simplicity Self- judge them , and our docility to our Reliance own law demonstrate the poverty of nature and fortune beside our native riches o But now we are a mob . Man does not stand in awe of ...
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... feet , is worth a hun- dred of these city dolls . 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 ...
... feet , is worth a hun- dred of these city dolls . 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 ...
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... feet . He is supported on crutches , but loses so much support of muscle . He has got a fine Geneva watch , but he has lost the skill to tell the hour by the sun . A Greenwich nautical almanac he has , and so being sure of the inform ...
... feet . He is supported on crutches , but loses so much support of muscle . He has got a fine Geneva watch , but he has lost the skill to tell the hour by the sun . A Greenwich nautical almanac he has , and so being sure of the inform ...
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