The Essay on Self-relianceThe Roycrofters, 1908 - 82 pages |
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Page 12
... puberty and manhood no less with its own piquancy and charm , and made it enviable and gracious and its claims not to be put by , if it will stand by itself Do not think the youth has no force because he cannot speak to you and me . Hark ...
... puberty and manhood no less with its own piquancy and charm , and made it enviable and gracious and its claims not to be put by , if it will stand by itself Do not think the youth has no force because he cannot speak to you and me . Hark ...
Page 19
... stand ; alms to sots ; and the thousandfold Relief Societies ; though I confess with shame I sometimes succumb and give the dollar , it is a wicked dollar which by - and - by I shall have the manhood to withhold . Virtues are in the ...
... stand ; alms to sots ; and the thousandfold Relief Societies ; though I confess with shame I sometimes succumb and give the dollar , it is a wicked dollar which by - and - by I shall have the manhood to withhold . Virtues are in the ...
Page 31
... the heroes of the senate and the field , which so fills the imagination ? The consciousness of a train of great days and victories behind . There they all stand and shed an united light on the advanc- ing actor He 31.
... the heroes of the senate and the field , which so fills the imagination ? The consciousness of a train of great days and victories behind . There they all stand and shed an united light on the advanc- ing actor He 31.
Page 33
... stand here for humanity , and though I would make it kind , I would make it true Let us affront and reprimand the smooth medioc- rity and squalid contentment of the times , and hurl in the face of custom , and trade , and office , the ...
... stand here for humanity , and though I would make it kind , I would make it true Let us affront and reprimand the smooth medioc- rity and squalid contentment of the times , and hurl in the face of custom , and trade , and office , the ...
Page 44
... . There is no time to it But man postpones or remembers ; he does not live in the present , but with reverted eye laments the past , or , heedless of the riches that sur- round him , stands on tiptoe to forsee the future 44.
... . There is no time to it But man postpones or remembers ; he does not live in the present , but with reverted eye laments the past , or , heedless of the riches that sur- round him , stands on tiptoe to forsee the future 44.
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