The Essay on Self-relianceThe Roycrofters, 1908 - 82 pages |
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Page 18
... lintels of the door - post , Whim . 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.
... lintels of the door - post , Whim . 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.
Page 19
Ralph Waldo Emerson. Then again , do not tell me , as a good man did today , of my obligation to put all poor men in good situations . Self- Are they my poor ? I tell thee , thou Reliance foolish philanthropist , that I grudge the dollar ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson. Then again , do not tell me , as a good man did today , of my obligation to put all poor men in good situations . Self- Are they my poor ? I tell thee , thou Reliance foolish philanthropist , that I grudge the dollar ...
Page 59
... life , but lives already . 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.
... life , but lives already . 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
... 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 can teach him . Shakespeare will never be made the 71.
... 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 can teach him . Shakespeare will never be made the 71.
Page 74
... 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 . The civilized man has built a coach ...
... 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 . The civilized man has built a coach ...
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