The Essay on Self-relianceThe Roycrofters, 1908 - 82 pages |
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... understood ! It is a right fool's word . Is it so bad then to be misunder- stood ? Pythagoras was misunder- stood , and Socrates , and Jesus , and Luther , and Copernicus , and Galileo , and Newton , and every pure and wise spirit that 28.
... understood ! It is a right fool's word . Is it so bad then to be misunder- stood ? Pythagoras was misunder- stood , and Socrates , and Jesus , and Luther , and Copernicus , and Galileo , and Newton , and every pure and wise spirit that 28.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson. and Newton , and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh . To be great is to be misunderstood . Self- I suppose no man can violate his Reliance nature . All the sallies of his will are rounded in by the law ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson. and Newton , and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh . To be great is to be misunderstood . Self- I suppose no man can violate his Reliance nature . All the sallies of his will are rounded in by the law ...
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... in course of time , all mankind , — although it may chance that no one has seen it before me For my perception of it is as much a fact as the sun The relations of the soul to the di- vine spirit are so pure that it is pro- fane 41.
... in course of time , all mankind , — although it may chance that no one has seen it before me For my perception of it is as much a fact as the sun The relations of the soul to the di- vine spirit are so pure that it is pro- fane 41.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson. vine spirit are so pure that it is pro- fane 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 ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson. vine spirit are so pure that it is pro- fane 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 ...
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... spirits ; who has less , I rule with like facil- ity . We fancy it rhetoric when we speak of eminent virtue . 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 ...
... spirits ; who has less , I rule with like facil- ity . We fancy it rhetoric when we speak of eminent virtue . 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 ...
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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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