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To believe your own thought , to believe that what is true for you in your private heart , is true for all men , -that is genius . Speak your latent conviction and it shall be the universal sense ; for always the inmost becomes the ...
To believe your own thought , to believe that what is true for you in your private heart , is true for all men , -that is genius . Speak your latent conviction and it shall be the universal sense ; for always the inmost becomes the ...
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A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work 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 ...
A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work 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 ...
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Trust thyself : every heart vibrates to that iron string . Accept the place Selfthe divine Providence has found for Reliance you ; the society of your contemporaries , the connexion of events . Great men have always done so and confided ...
Trust thyself : every heart vibrates to that iron string . Accept the place Selfthe divine Providence has found for Reliance you ; the society of your contemporaries , the connexion of events . Great men have always done so and confided ...
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In your metaphysics you have denied personality to the Deity : yet when the devout motions of the soul come , yield to them heart and life , though they should clothe God with shape and color . Leave your theory as Joseph his coat in ...
In your metaphysics you have denied personality to the Deity : yet when the devout motions of the soul come , yield to them heart and life , though they should clothe God with shape and color . Leave your theory as Joseph his coat in ...
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I will so trust that what is deep is holy , that I will do strongly before the sun and moon whatever inly rejoices me , and the heart appoints . If you are noble , I will love you ; if you are not , I will not hurt you and myself by ...
I will so trust that what is deep is holy , that I will do strongly before the sun and moon whatever inly rejoices me , and the heart appoints . If you are noble , I will love you ; if you are not , I will not hurt you and myself by ...
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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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