The Essay on Self-relianceThe Roycrofters, 1908 - 82 pages |
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... live wholly from within ? my friend suggested— " But these impulses may be from be- low , not from above . " I replied , They do not seem to me to be such ; but if I am the devil's child , I will live then from the devil . No law can be ...
... live wholly from within ? my friend suggested— " But these impulses may be from be- low , not from above . " I replied , They do not seem to me to be such ; but if I am the devil's child , I will live then from the devil . No law can be ...
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... live . My life is not an apology , but a life . It is for itself and not for a spectacle . I much prefer that it should be of a lower strain , so it be genuine and equal , than it should be glittering and unsteady . I wish it to be ...
... live . My life is not an apology , but a life . It is for itself and not for a spectacle . I much prefer that it should be of a lower strain , so it be genuine and equal , than it should be glittering and unsteady . I wish it to be ...
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... and meanness . It is the harder , because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it . It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to 21.
... and meanness . It is the harder , because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it . It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to 21.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson. the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after our own ; but Self- the great man is he who in the midst Reliance of the crowd keeps with perfect sweet- ness the independence of solitude . The objection to ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson. the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after our own ; but Self- the great man is he who in the midst Reliance of the crowd keeps with perfect sweet- ness the independence of solitude . The objection to ...
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... live ever in a new day . Trust your emotion . 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 ...
... live ever in a new day . Trust your emotion . 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 ...
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