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We do not yet see that virtue is Height , and that a man or company of men plastic and permeable to principles , by the law of nature must overpower and ride all cities , nations , kings , rich men , poets , who are not .
We do not yet see that virtue is Height , and that a man or company of men plastic and permeable to principles , by the law of nature must overpower and ride all cities , nations , kings , rich men , poets , who are not .
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Not possibly will the soul all rich , all eloquent , with thousand - cloven tongue , deign to repeat itself ; but if I can hear what these patriarchs say , surely I can reply to them in the same pitch of voice : for the ear and the ...
Not possibly will the soul all rich , all eloquent , with thousand - cloven tongue , deign to repeat itself ; but if I can hear what these patriarchs say , surely I can reply to them in the same pitch of voice : for the ear and the ...
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It undergoes continual changes : it is barbarous , it is civilized , it is christianized , it is rich , it is scientific ; but this change is not amelioration . For every thing that is given , something is taken .
It undergoes continual changes : it is barbarous , it is civilized , it is christianized , it is rich , it is scientific ; but this change is not amelioration . For every thing that is given , something is taken .
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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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