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There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance ; that imitation is suicide ; that he must take himself for better , for worse , as his portion ; that though the wide universe is full of ...
There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance ; that imitation is suicide ; that he must take himself for better , for worse , as his portion ; that though the wide universe is full of ...
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We imitate ; and what is imitation but the traveling of the mind ? Our houses are built with foreign taste ; our shelves are garnished with foreign ornaments ; our opinions , our tastes , our whole minds lean , and follow the Past and ...
We imitate ; and what is imitation but the traveling of the mind ? Our houses are built with foreign taste ; our shelves are garnished with foreign ornaments ; our opinions , our tastes , our whole minds lean , and follow the Past and ...
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... the wants of the people , the habit and form of the government , he will create a house in which all these will find them . selves fitted , and taste and sentiment will be satisfied also . Insist on youself ; never imitate .
... the wants of the people , the habit and form of the government , he will create a house in which all these will find them . selves fitted , and taste and sentiment will be satisfied also . Insist on youself ; never imitate .
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Insist on youself ; never imitate . Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force Selfof a whole life's cultivation ; but of Reliance the adopted talent of another , you have only an extemporaneous ...
Insist on youself ; never imitate . Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force Selfof a whole life's cultivation ; but of Reliance the adopted talent of another , you have only an extemporaneous ...
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The Emperor held it impossible to make a perfect army , says Las Casas , without abolishing our arms , magazines , commissaries and carriages , until in imitation of the Roman custom , the soldier should receive his supply of corn ...
The Emperor held it impossible to make a perfect army , says Las Casas , without abolishing our arms , magazines , commissaries and carriages , until in imitation of the Roman custom , the soldier should receive his supply of corn ...
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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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