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Page 17
I ought to go upright and vital , and speak the rude truth in all ways . If malice and vanity wear the coat of philanthropy , shall that pass ? If an angry bigot assumes this bountiful cause of Abolition , and comes to me with his last ...
I ought to go upright and vital , and speak the rude truth in all ways . If malice and vanity wear the coat of philanthropy , shall that pass ? If an angry bigot assumes this bountiful cause of Abolition , and comes to me with his last ...
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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 charities ; the education at college of fools ; the building of meeting ...
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 charities ; the education at college of fools ; the building of meeting ...
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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 the multitude , like their sweet faces , have no deep cause , -dis, guise no god , but are ...
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 the multitude , like their sweet faces , have no deep cause , -dis, guise no god , but are ...
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... when the unintelligent brute force that lies at the bottom of society is made to growl and mow , it needs the habit of magnanimity and religion to treat it godlike as a trifle of no concernment you go The other terror that scares us ...
... when the unintelligent brute force that lies at the bottom of society is made to growl and mow , it needs the habit of magnanimity and religion to treat it godlike as a trifle of no concernment you go The other terror that scares us ...
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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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