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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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Virtues are in the popular estimate rather the exception than the rule . Self- There is the man and his virtues . Reliance Men do what is called a good action , as some piece of courage or charity , much as they would pay a fine in ...
Virtues are in the popular estimate rather the exception than the rule . Self- There is the man and his virtues . Reliance Men do what is called a good action , as some piece of courage or charity , much as they would pay a fine in ...
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( That popular fable of the sot who was picked up dead drunk in the street , carried to the duke's house , washed and dressed and laid in the duke's bed , and on his waking , treated with all obsequious ceremony like the duke ...
( That popular fable of the sot who was picked up dead drunk in the street , carried to the duke's house , washed and dressed and laid in the duke's bed , and on his waking , treated with all obsequious ceremony like the duke ...
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Besides , all persons have their moments of reason when they look out into the region of absolute truth ; then will they justify me and do the same thing sto se The populace think that your rejection of popular standards is a rejection ...
Besides , all persons have their moments of reason when they look out into the region of absolute truth ; then will they justify me and do the same thing sto se The populace think that your rejection of popular standards is a rejection ...
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tion of popular standards is a rejection of all standard , and mere antiSelf- nomianism ; and the bold sensualist Reliance will use the name of philosophy to gild his crimes se But the law of consciousness abides .
tion of popular standards is a rejection of all standard , and mere antiSelf- nomianism ; and the bold sensualist Reliance will use the name of philosophy to gild his crimes se But the law of consciousness abides .
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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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