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I would write on the lintels of the door - post , Whim . I hope it is somewhat better than whim at last , but we cannot spend the day in explanation . Expect me not to show cause why I seek or why I exclude company .
I would write on the lintels of the door - post , Whim . I hope it is somewhat better than whim at last , but we cannot spend the day in explanation . Expect me not to show cause why I seek or why I exclude company .
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If we ask whence this comes , if we seek to pry into the soul that causes , -all metaphysics , all philosophy is at fault . Its presence or its absence is all we can affirm . Every man discerns between the voluntary acts of his mind ...
If we ask whence this comes , if we seek to pry into the soul that causes , -all metaphysics , all philosophy is at fault . Its presence or its absence is all we can affirm . Every man discerns between the voluntary acts of his mind ...
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... all mankind ,although it may chance that no one has seen it before me seu For my perception of it is as much a fact as the sun goede The relations of the soul to the divine spirit are so pure that it is profane to seek 41.
... all mankind ,although it may chance that no one has seen it before me seu For my perception of it is as much a fact as the sun goede The relations of the soul to the divine spirit are so pure that it is profane to seek 41.
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vine spirit are so pure that it is profane to seek to interpose helps . 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 ...
vine spirit are so pure that it is profane to seek to interpose helps . 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 ...
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If you are true , but not in the same truth with me , cleave to your com- Selfpanions ; I will seek my own . I do Reliance this not selfishly , but humbly and truly . It is alike your interest and mine and all men's , however long we ...
If you are true , but not in the same truth with me , cleave to your com- Selfpanions ; I will seek my own . I do Reliance this not selfishly , but humbly and truly . It is alike your interest and mine and all men's , however long we ...
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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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