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The sentiment they instill is of more value than any 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 .
The sentiment they instill is of more value than any 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 .
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Familiar as the voice of the mind is to each , the highest merit we ascribe Self- to Moses , Plato and Milton , is that Reliance they set at naught books and tradi . tions , and spoke not what men , but what they , thought .
Familiar as the voice of the mind is to each , the highest merit we ascribe Self- to Moses , Plato and Milton , is that Reliance they set at naught books and tradi . tions , and spoke not what men , but what they , thought .
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stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time , and we shall be Selfforced to take with shame our own Reliance opinion from another . There is a time in every man's education when he ...
stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time , and we shall be Selfforced to take with shame our own Reliance opinion from another . There is a time in every man's education when he ...
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In this pleasing contrite wood - life which God allows me , let me record day by day my honest thought without prospect or retrospect , and I cannot doubt , it will be found symmetrical , though I mean it not , and see it not .
In this pleasing contrite wood - life which God allows me , let me record day by day my honest thought without prospect or retrospect , and I cannot doubt , it will be found symmetrical , though I mean it not , and see it not .
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These varieties are lost sight of when seen at a little distance , at a little height of 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 .
These varieties are lost sight of when seen at a little distance , at a little height of 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 .
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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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