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So God has armed youth and puberty and manhood no 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 som de Do not think the youth has no force because ...
So God has armed youth and puberty and manhood no 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 som de Do not think the youth has no force because ...
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Be . fore a leaf - bud has burst , its whole life acts ; in the full - blown flower , there is no more ; in the leafless root , there is no less . Its nature is satisfied , and it satisfies nature , in all moments alike .
Be . fore a leaf - bud has burst , its whole life acts ; in the full - blown flower , there is no more ; in the leafless root , there is no less . Its nature is satisfied , and it satisfies nature , in all moments alike .
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Round him I must evolve by the gravitation of spirits ; who has less , I rule with like facility . 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 ...
Round him I must evolve by the gravitation of spirits ; who has less , I rule with like facility . 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 ...
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Be it known unto you that henceforward I obey no 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 ...
Be it known unto you that henceforward I obey no 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 ...
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Prayer that craves a particular commodity - any thing 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 beholding and jubilant soul .
Prayer that craves a particular commodity - any thing 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 beholding and jubilant soul .
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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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