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Misunderstood ! It is a right fool's word . Is it so bad then to be misunderstood ? Pythagoras was misunderstood , and Socrates , and Jesus , and Luther , and Copernicus , and Galileo , and Newton , and every pure and wise spirit that 28.
Misunderstood ! It is a right fool's word . Is it so bad then to be misunderstood ? Pythagoras was misunderstood , and Socrates , and Jesus , and Luther , and Copernicus , and Galileo , and Newton , and every pure and wise spirit that 28.
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and Newton , and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh . To be great is to be misunderstood . SelfI suppose no man can violate his Reliance nature . All the sallies of his will are rounded in by the law of his being as the ...
and Newton , and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh . To be great is to be misunderstood . SelfI suppose no man can violate his Reliance nature . All the sallies of his will are rounded in by the law of his being as the ...
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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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Round him I must evolve by the gravitation of spirits ; who has less , I rule with like facility . 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 ...
Round him I must evolve by the gravitation of spirits ; who has less , I rule with like facility . 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 ...
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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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