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1 1 Self - Reliance READ the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional de Always the soul hears an admonition in such lines , let the subject be what it may . The sentiment they instill ...
1 1 Self - Reliance READ the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional de Always the soul hears an admonition in such lines , let the subject be what it may . The sentiment they instill ...
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In your metaphysics you have denied personality to the Deity : yet when the devout motions of the soul come , yield to them heart and life , though they should clothe God with shape and color . Leave your theory as Joseph his coat in ...
In your metaphysics you have denied personality to the Deity : yet when the devout motions of the soul come , yield to them heart and life , though they should clothe God with shape and color . Leave your theory as Joseph his coat in ...
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Reliance With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do so He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall . Out upon your guarded lips ! Sew them up with packthread , do . Else , if you would be a man , speak what ...
Reliance With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do so He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall . Out upon your guarded lips ! Sew them up with packthread , do . Else , if you would be a man , speak what ...
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For the sense of being which in calm hours rises , we know not how , in the soul , is not diverse from things , from space , from light , from time , from man , but one with them , and proceedeth obviously from the same source whence ...
For the sense of being which in calm hours rises , we know not how , in the soul , is not diverse from things , from space , from light , from time , from man , but one with them , and proceedeth obviously from the same source whence ...
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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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| 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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