The Essay on Self-relianceThe Roycrofters, 1908 - 82 pages |
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... thought they may contain . To believe your own thought , to believe that what is true for you in your private heart , is true for all men , that is genius . Speak your latent conviction and it shall be the universal sense ; for always ...
... thought they may contain . To believe your own thought , to believe that what is true for you in your private heart , is true for all men , that is genius . Speak your latent conviction and it shall be the universal sense ; for always ...
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... thought , because it is his . ΒΆ In every work of genius we recog- nize our own rejected thoughts : they come back to us with a certain alien- ated majesty . Great works of art have no more affecting lesson for us than this . They teach ...
... thought , because it is his . ΒΆ In every work of genius we recog- nize our own rejected thoughts : they come back to us with a certain alien- ated majesty . Great works of art have no more affecting lesson for us than this . They teach ...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson. stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time , and we shall be Self- forced to take with shame our own Reliance opinion from another . There is a time in every man's ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson. stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time , and we shall be Self- forced to take with shame our own Reliance opinion from another . There is a time in every man's ...
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... thought without prospect or retro- spect , and I cannot doubt , it will be found symmetrical , though I mean it not , and see it not . My book should smell of pines and resound with the hum of insects . The swallow over my window should ...
... thought without prospect or retro- spect , and I cannot doubt , it will be found symmetrical , though I mean it not , and see it not . My book should smell of pines and resound with the hum of insects . The swallow over my window should ...
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... thought . One tendency unites them all . The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks . This is only microscopic criticism . See the line from a sufficient distance , and it straightens itself to the average ten ...
... thought . One tendency unites them all . The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks . This is only microscopic criticism . See the line from a sufficient distance , and it straightens itself to the average ten ...
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Bibliographic information
| 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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