The Essay on Self-relianceThe Roycrofters, 1908 - 82 pages |
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... opinion from another . There is a time in every man's edu- cation when he arrives at the convic- tion that envy is ignorance ; that imitation is suicide ; that he must take himself for better , for worse , as his portion ; that though ...
... opinion from another . There is a time in every man's edu- cation when he arrives at the convic- tion that envy is ignorance ; that imitation is suicide ; that he must take himself for better , for worse , as his portion ; that though ...
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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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... affec- tation . Well , most men have bound their eyes with one or another hand- kerchief , and attached themselves to some one of these communities of opinion . This conformity makes them not false in a few particulars , authors of 23.
... affec- tation . Well , most men have bound their eyes with one or another hand- kerchief , and attached themselves to some one of these communities of opinion . This conformity makes them not false in a few particulars , authors of 23.
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... opinions , or rather much more readily ; for , they do not distinguish between perception and notion . They fancy that I choose to see this or that thing . But perception is not whimsical , but fatal . If I see a trait , my children ...
... opinions , or rather much more readily ; for , they do not distinguish between perception and notion . They fancy that I choose to see this or that thing . But perception is not whimsical , but fatal . If I see a trait , my children ...
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