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... latent conviction and it shall be the universal sense ; for always the inmost becomes the outmost , -and our first thought is rendered back to us by the trumpets of the Last Judgment . - Familiar as the voice of the mind is to each.
... latent conviction and it shall be the universal sense ; for always the inmost becomes the outmost , -and our first thought is rendered back to us by the trumpets of the Last Judgment . - Familiar as the voice of the mind is to each.
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Familiar as the voice of the mind is to each , the highest merit we ascribe Self- to Moses , Plato and Milton , is that Reliance they set at naught books and tradi . tions , and spoke not what men , but what they , thought .
Familiar as the voice of the mind is to each , the highest merit we ascribe Self- to Moses , Plato and Milton , is that Reliance they set at naught books and tradi . tions , and spoke not what men , but what they , thought .
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And we are now men , and must accept in the highest mind the same transcendent destiny ; and not pinched in a corner , not cowards fleeing before a revolution , but a redeemers and benefactors , pious aspirants to be noble clay ...
And we are now men , and must accept in the highest mind the same transcendent destiny ; and not pinched in a corner , not cowards fleeing before a revolution , but a redeemers and benefactors , pious aspirants to be noble clay ...
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Reliance That divided and rebel mind , that distrust of a sentiment because our arithmetic has computed the strength and means opposed to our purpose , these have not ye Their mind being whole , their eye is as yet unconquered ...
Reliance That divided and rebel mind , that distrust of a sentiment because our arithmetic has computed the strength and means opposed to our purpose , these have not ye Their mind being whole , their eye is as yet unconquered ...
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Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of our own mind . Absolve you to yourself , and you shall have the suffrage of the world . I remember an answer which when quite young I was prompted to make to a valued adviser who was wont ...
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of our own mind . Absolve you to yourself , and you shall have the suffrage of the world . I remember an answer which when quite young I was prompted to make to a valued adviser who was wont ...
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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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