The Essay on Self-relianceThe Roycrofters, 1908 - 82 pages |
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Page 12
... less with its own piquancy and charm , and made it enviable and gracious and its claims not to be put by , if it will stand by itself Do not think the youth has no force because he cannot speak to you and me . Hark 12.
... less with its own piquancy and charm , and made it enviable and gracious and its claims not to be put by , if it will stand by itself Do not think the youth has no force because he cannot speak to you and me . Hark 12.
Page 44
... less . Its nature is satisfied , and it satisfies nature , in all moments alike . There is no time to it But man postpones or remembers ; he does not live in the present , but with reverted eye laments the past , or , heedless of the ...
... less . Its nature is satisfied , and it satisfies nature , in all moments alike . There is no time to it But man postpones or remembers ; he does not live in the present , but with reverted eye laments the past , or , heedless of the ...
Page 49
... less , I rule with like facil- ity . We fancy it rhetoric when we speak of eminent virtue . We do not yet see that virtue is Height , and that a man or company of men plastic and permeable to principles , by the law of nature must ...
... less , I rule with like facil- ity . We fancy it rhetoric when we speak of eminent virtue . We do not yet see that virtue is Height , and that a man or company of men plastic and permeable to principles , by the law of nature must ...
Page 54
... less than the Self- external law . I will have no covenants Reliance but proximities . I shall endeavor to nourish my parents , to support my family , to be the chaste husband of one wife , but these relations I must fill after a new ...
... less than the Self- external law . I will have no covenants Reliance but proximities . I shall endeavor to nourish my parents , to support my family , to be the chaste husband of one wife , but these relations I must fill after a new ...
Page 61
... less than all good , is vicious . Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point of view . It is the soliloquy of a be- holding and jubilant soul . It is the spirit of God pronouncing His works good o But prayer ...
... less than all good , is vicious . Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point of view . It is the soliloquy of a be- holding and jubilant soul . It is the spirit of God pronouncing His works good o But prayer ...
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