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... The other terror that scares us from self - trust is our consistency ; a reverence for our past act or word , because the eyes of others have no other data for computing our orbit than our past acts , and we are loath to disappoint 26.
... The other terror that scares us from self - trust is our consistency ; a reverence for our past act or word , because the eyes of others have no other data for computing our orbit than our past acts , and we are loath to disappoint 26.
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our past acts , and we are loath to disappoint them . But why should you keep your head over your shoulder ? SelfWhy drag about this monstrous corpse Reliance of your memory , lest you contradict somewhat you have stated in this or that ...
our past acts , and we are loath to disappoint them . But why should you keep your head over your shoulder ? SelfWhy drag about this monstrous corpse Reliance of your memory , lest you contradict somewhat you have stated in this or that ...
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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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Whence then this worship of the past ? sem The centuries are conspirators against the sanity and majesty of the soul . Time and space are but physiological colors which the eye maketh , but the soul is light ; where it is , is day ...
Whence then this worship of the past ? sem The centuries are conspirators against the sanity and majesty of the soul . Time and space are but physiological colors which the eye maketh , but the soul is light ; where it is , is day ...
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There is no time to it so se But man postpones or remembers ; he does not live in the present , but with reverted eye laments the past , or , heedless of the riches that surround him , stands on tiptoe to forsee the future . 44.
There is no time to it so se But man postpones or remembers ; he does not live in the present , but with reverted eye laments the past , or , heedless of the riches that surround him , stands on tiptoe to forsee the future . 44.
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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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