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As soon as he has once acted or spoken with eclat , he is a committed person , watched by the sympathy or the hatred of hundreds whose affections must now enter into his account . There is no Lethe for this .
As soon as he has once acted or spoken with eclat , he is a committed person , watched by the sympathy or the hatred of hundreds whose affections must now enter into his account . There is no Lethe for this .
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There is a class of persons to whom by all spiritual affinity I am bought and sold ; for them I will go to prison , if need be ; but your miscellaneous popular charities ; the education at college of fools ; the building of meeting ...
There is a class of persons to whom by all spiritual affinity I am bought and sold ; for them I will go to prison , if need be ; but your miscellaneous popular charities ; the education at college of fools ; the building of meeting ...
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... trap for our love and homage , but is self - dependent , self - derived , and therefore of an old immaculate pedigree , even if shown in a young person der I hope in these days we have heard the last of conformity and consistency .
... trap for our love and homage , but is self - dependent , self - derived , and therefore of an old immaculate pedigree , even if shown in a young person der I hope in these days we have heard the last of conformity and consistency .
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Where he is there is nature . He measures you , and all men , and all events of You are constrained to accept his standard . Ordinarily everybody in society reminds us of somewhat else or of some other person . 33.
Where he is there is nature . He measures you , and all men , and all events of You are constrained to accept his standard . Ordinarily everybody in society reminds us of somewhat else or of some other person . 33.
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minds us of somewhat else or of some other person . Character , realSelf- ity , reminds you of nothing else . It Reliance takes place of the whole creation . The man must be so much that he must make all circumstances indif . ferent ...
minds us of somewhat else or of some other person . Character , realSelf- ity , reminds you of nothing else . It Reliance takes place of the whole creation . The man must be so much that he must make all circumstances indif . ferent ...
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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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