The Essay on Self-relianceThe Roycrofters, 1908 - 82 pages |
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Page 10
... and done his best ; but what he has said or done otherwise , shall give him no peace . It is a deliverance which does not deliver . In the at- tempt his genius deserts him ; no muse befriends ; no invention , no hope . Trust 10.
... and done his best ; but what he has said or done otherwise , shall give him no peace . It is a deliverance which does not deliver . In the at- tempt his genius deserts him ; no muse befriends ; no invention , no hope . Trust 10.
Page 14
... gives an independent , genuine verdict You must court him : he does not court you . But the man is , as it were , clapped into jail by his consciousness . As soon as he has once acted or spoken with eclat , he is a committed person ...
... gives an independent , genuine verdict You must court him : he does not court you . But the man is , as it were , clapped into jail by his consciousness . As soon as he has once acted or spoken with eclat , he is a committed person ...
Page 19
... give to such men as do not belong to me and to whom I do not belong . There is a class of persons to whom by all spiritual affinity I am bought and sold ; for them I will go to prison , if need be ; but your miscellaneous popular ...
... give to such men as do not belong to me and to whom I do not belong . There is a class of persons to whom by all spiritual affinity I am bought and sold ; for them I will go to prison , if need be ; but your miscellaneous popular ...
Page 53
... give them by a weak curiosity . No man can come Self- near me but through my act . " What Reliance we love that we have , but by desire we bereave ourselves of the love . " If we cannot at once rise to the sanc- tities of obedience and ...
... give them by a weak curiosity . No man can come Self- near me but through my act . " What Reliance we love that we have , but by desire we bereave ourselves of the love . " If we cannot at once rise to the sanc- tities of obedience and ...
Page 55
... give these friends pain ☛ Yes , but I cannot sell my liberty and my power , to save their sensibility . Be- sides , all persons have their moments of reason when they look out into the region of absolute truth ; then will they justify ...
... give these friends pain ☛ Yes , but I cannot sell my liberty and my power , to save their sensibility . Be- sides , all persons have their moments of reason when they look out into the region of absolute truth ; then will they justify ...
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