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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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Ah , that he could pass again into his neutral , godlike independence ! Who can thus lose all pledge , and having observed , observe again from the same unaffected , unbiased , unbribable , unaffrighted innocence , must always be ...
Ah , that he could pass again into his neutral , godlike independence ! Who can thus lose all pledge , and having observed , observe again from the same unaffected , unbiased , unbribable , unaffrighted innocence , must always be ...
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If malice and vanity wear the coat of philanthropy , shall that pass ? If an angry bigot assumes this bountiful cause of Abolition , and comes to me with his last news of the Barbadoes , why should I not say to him , “ Go love thy ...
If malice and vanity wear the coat of philanthropy , shall that pass ? If an angry bigot assumes this bountiful cause of Abolition , and comes to me with his last news of the Barbadoes , why should I not say to him , “ Go love thy ...
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We pass for what Reliance we are . Character teaches above our wills . Men imagine that they communicate their virtue or vice only by overt actions and do not see that virtue or vice emit a breath every moment de la Fear never but you ...
We pass for what Reliance we are . Character teaches above our wills . Men imagine that they communicate their virtue or vice only by overt actions and do not see that virtue or vice emit a breath every moment de la Fear never but you ...
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Whenever a mind is simple , and receives a divine wisdom , then old things pass away , -means , teachers , texts , temples fall ; it lives now and absorbs past and future into the present hour . All things are made sacred by relation to ...
Whenever a mind is simple , and receives a divine wisdom , then old things pass away , -means , teachers , texts , temples fall ; it lives now and absorbs past and future into the present hour . All things are made sacred by relation to ...
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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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