The Essay on Self-relianceThe Roycrofters, 1908 - 82 pages |
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... soul hears an admonition in such lines , let the subject be what it may . The sentiment they instill is of more value than any thought they may contain . To believe your own thought , to believe that what is true for you in your private ...
... soul hears an admonition in such lines , let the subject be what it may . The sentiment they instill is of more value than any thought they may contain . To believe your own thought , to believe that what is true for you in your private ...
Page 27
... 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 the hand of the harlot , and flee . A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds , 27.
... 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 the hand of the harlot , and flee . A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds , 27.
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... soul has simply nothing to do s☛ 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 you think today in words as hard as ...
... soul has simply nothing to do s☛ 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 you think today in words as hard as ...
Page 39
... 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 their life and being also proceedeth . We first share the life by which things ...
... 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 their life and being also proceedeth . We first share the life by which things ...
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... 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 , and his involuntary perceptions . And to his involuntary ...
... 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 , and his involuntary perceptions . And to his involuntary ...
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