The Essay on Self-relianceThe Roycrofters, 1908 - 82 pages |
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Page 17
... 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 news of the ...
... 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 news of the ...
Page 19
... go to prison , if need be ; but your miscellaneous popular charities ; the education at college of fools ; the building of meeting - houses to the vain end to which many now stand ; alms to sots ; and the thousandfold Relief Societies ...
... go to prison , if need be ; but your miscellaneous popular charities ; the education at college of fools ; the building of meeting - houses to the vain end to which many now stand ; alms to sots ; and the thousandfold Relief Societies ...
Page 25
... 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 put on and off as the wind blows , and a newspaper · directs Yet is the discontent of the ...
... 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 put on and off as the wind blows , and a newspaper · directs Yet is the discontent of the ...
Page 39
... 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 , from light , from time , from man , but one with them , and ...
... 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 , from light , from time , from man , but one with them , and ...
Page 45
... , when they come into the point of view which those had who uttered these sayings , they under- stand them , and are willing to let the words go ; for , at any time , they can use words as good , when occasion comes . So 45.
... , when they come into the point of view which those had who uttered these sayings , they under- stand them , and are willing to let the words go ; for , at any time , they can use words as good , when occasion comes . So 45.
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