The Essay on Self-relianceThe Roycrofters, 1908 - 82 pages |
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... The other terror that scares us from self - trust is our consistency ; a rever- ence 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 rever- ence 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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