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It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on your memory alone , scarcely even in acts of pure memory , but bring the past for judgment into the thousand - eyed present , and live ever in a new day . Trust your emotion .
It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on your memory alone , scarcely even in acts of pure memory , but bring the past for judgment into the thousand - eyed present , and live ever in a new day . Trust your emotion .
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It Self- must be that when God speaketh , Reliance He should communicate not one thing , but all things ; should fill the world with His voice ; should scatter forth light , nature , time , souls , from the center of the present thought ...
It Self- must be that when God speaketh , Reliance He should communicate not one thing , but all things ; should fill the world with His voice ; should scatter forth light , nature , time , souls , from the center of the present thought ...
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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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He cannot be happy and strong until he , too , lives with nature Selfin the present , above time . Reliance This should be plain enough . You see what strong intellects dare not yet hear God Himself , unless He speak the phraseology of ...
He cannot be happy and strong until he , too , lives with nature Selfin the present , above time . Reliance This should be plain enough . You see what strong intellects dare not yet hear God Himself , unless He speak the phraseology of ...
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This which I think and feel , underReliance lay that former state of life and circumstances , as it does underlie my present , and will always all circumstance , and what is called life , and what is called death .
This which I think and feel , underReliance lay that former state of life and circumstances , as it does underlie my present , and will always all circumstance , and what is called life , and what is called death .
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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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