The Essay on Self-relianceThe Roycrofters, 1908 - 82 pages |
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Page 9
... in him is new in nature , and none but he knows what that is which he can do , nor does he know until he has tried Not for nothing one face , one charac- ter , one fact makes much impression on him , and another none . It is not 9.
... in him is new in nature , and none but he knows what that is which he can do , nor does he know until he has tried Not for nothing one face , one charac- ter , one fact makes much impression on him , and another none . It is not 9.
Page 11
... a revolution , but redeemers and benefactors , pious aspirants to be noble clay , plastic under the Almighty effort , let us advance and advance on Chaos and the Dark se se What pretty oracles nature yields us on this text in 11.
... a revolution , but redeemers and benefactors , pious aspirants to be noble clay , plastic under the Almighty effort , let us advance and advance on Chaos and the Dark se se What pretty oracles nature yields us on this text in 11.
Page 12
Ralph Waldo Emerson. What pretty oracles nature yields us on this text in the face and behavior Self- of children , babes and even brutes . Reliance That divided and rebel mind , that distrust of a sentiment because our arithmetic has ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson. What pretty oracles nature yields us on this text in the face and behavior Self- of children , babes and even brutes . Reliance That divided and rebel mind , that distrust of a sentiment because our arithmetic has ...
Page 13
... nature . How is a boy the master of society ! -indepen- dent , 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 ...
... nature . How is a boy the master of society ! -indepen- dent , 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 ...
Page 16
... 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 sacred to me but that of my nature . Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to 16.
... 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 sacred to me but that of my nature . Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to 16.
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