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A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within , more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages sen Yet he dismisses without notice his thought , because it is his .
A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within , more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages sen Yet he dismisses without notice his thought , because it is his .
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What makes the majesty of the heroes of the senate and the field , which so fills the imagination ? The consciousness of a train of great days and victories behind . There they all stand and shed an united light on the advancing actor ...
What makes the majesty of the heroes of the senate and the field , which so fills the imagination ? The consciousness of a train of great days and victories behind . There they all stand and shed an united light on the advancing actor ...
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shed an united light on the advancing actor se He is attended as by Self- a visible escort of angels to every Reliance man's eye . That is it which throws thunder into Chatham's voice , and dignity into Washington's port , and America ...
shed an united light on the advancing actor se He is attended as by Self- a visible escort of angels to every Reliance man's eye . That is it which throws thunder into Chatham's voice , and dignity into Washington's port , and America ...
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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 proceedeth obviously from the same source whence ...
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 proceedeth obviously from the same source whence ...
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It Self- must be that when God speaketh , Reliance He should communicate not one thing , but all things ; should fill the world with His voice ; should scatter forth light , nature , time , souls , from the center of the present thought ...
It Self- must be that when God speaketh , Reliance He should communicate not one thing , but all things ; should fill the world with His voice ; should scatter forth light , nature , time , souls , from the center of the present thought ...
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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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