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Page 18
I hope it is somewhat better than whim at last , but we cannot spend the day in explanation . Expect me not to show cause why I seek or why I exclude company . Then again , do not tell me , as a 18.
I hope it is somewhat better than whim at last , but we cannot spend the day in explanation . Expect me not to show cause why I seek or why I exclude company . Then again , do not tell me , as a 18.
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Then again , do not tell me , as a good man did today , of my obligation to put all poor men in good situations . SelfAre they my poor ? I tell thee , thou Reliance foolish philanthropist , that I grudge the dollar , the dime , the cent ...
Then again , do not tell me , as a good man did today , of my obligation to put all poor men in good situations . SelfAre they my poor ? I tell thee , thou Reliance foolish philanthropist , that I grudge the dollar , the dime , the cent ...
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He has not one chance , but a hundred chances . Let a stoic arise who shall reveal the resources of man , and tell men they are not leaning willows , but can and must detach themselves ; that with the exercise 59.
He has not one chance , but a hundred chances . Let a stoic arise who shall reveal the resources of man , and tell men they are not leaning willows , but can and must detach themselves ; that with the exercise 59.
Page 71
The Scipionism of Scipio is precisely that part he could not borrow so se If anybody will tell me whom the great man imitates in the original crisis when he performs a great act , I will tell him who else than himself 1 can teach him .
The Scipionism of Scipio is precisely that part he could not borrow so se If anybody will tell me whom the great man imitates in the original crisis when he performs a great act , I will tell him who else than himself 1 can teach him .
Page 74
If the traveler tell us truly , strike the savage with a broad axe , and in a day or two the flesh shall unite and heal as if you struck the blow into soft pitch , and the blow shall send the white to his grave .
If the traveler tell us truly , strike the savage with a broad axe , and in a day or two the flesh shall unite and heal as if you struck the blow into soft pitch , and the blow shall send the white to his grave .
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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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