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So God has armed youth and 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 som de Do not think the youth has no force because ...
So God has armed youth and 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 som de Do not think the youth has no force because ...
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... but your miscellaneous popular charities ; the education at college of fools ; the building of meeting - houses to the vain end to which many now stand ; alms to sots ; and the thousandfold Relief Societies ; —though I confess with ...
... but your miscellaneous popular charities ; the education at college of fools ; the building of meeting - houses to the vain end to which many now stand ; alms to sots ; and the thousandfold Relief Societies ; —though I confess with ...
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What makes the majesty of 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 advancing actor ...
What makes the majesty of 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 advancing actor ...
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I will stand here for humanity , and though I would make it kind , I would make it true de Let us affront and reprimand the smooth mediocrity and squalid contentment of the times , and hurl in the face of custom , and trade , and office ...
I will stand here for humanity , and though I would make it kind , I would make it true de Let us affront and reprimand the smooth mediocrity and squalid contentment of the times , and hurl in the face of custom , and trade , and office ...
Page 44
There is no time to it so se 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 surround him , stands on tiptoe to forsee the future . 44.
There is no time to it so se 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 surround him , stands on tiptoe to forsee the future . 44.
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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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