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How is a boy the master of society 1 - independent , irresponsible , looking out from his corner on such people and facts as pass by , he tries and sentences them on their merits , in the swift summary way of boys , as good , bad , 13.
How is a boy the master of society 1 - independent , irresponsible , looking out from his corner on such people and facts as pass by , he tries and sentences them on their merits , in the swift summary way of boys , as good , bad , 13.
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Who has more soul than I , masters me , though he should not raise his finger . 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 .
Who has more soul than I , masters me , though he should not raise his finger . 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 .
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This will continue until he has exhausted his master's mind . But in all unbalanced minds , the classification is idolized , passes for the end , and not for a speedily exhaustible means , so that the walls of the system blend to their ...
This will continue until he has exhausted his master's mind . But in all unbalanced minds , the classification is idolized , passes for the end , and not for a speedily exhaustible means , so that the walls of the system blend to their ...
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Jo Jo the universe ; the luminaries of heaven seem to them hung on the arch their Self- master built . They can not imagine Reliance how you aliens have any right to see , -how you can see ; " It must be somehow that you stole the light ...
Jo Jo the universe ; the luminaries of heaven seem to them hung on the arch their Self- master built . They can not imagine Reliance how you aliens have any right to see , -how you can see ; " It must be somehow that you stole the light ...
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Where is the master who could have instructed Franklin , or Washington , or Bacon , or Newton ? Every great man is an unique . The Scipionism of Scipio is precisely that part he could not borrow so se If anybody will tell me whom the ...
Where is the master who could have instructed Franklin , or Washington , or Bacon , or Newton ? Every great man is an unique . The Scipionism of Scipio is precisely that part he could not borrow so se If anybody will tell me whom the ...
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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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