The Essay on Self-relianceThe Roycrofters, 1908 - 82 pages |
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... 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 the inmost becomes the out- most , and our first thought is ren- dered back to us ...
... 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 the inmost becomes the out- most , and our first thought is ren- dered back to us ...
Page 24
... true . Their two is not the real two , their four not the real four ; so that every word they say chagrins us , and we know not where to begin to set them right . Meantime nature is not slow to equip us in the prison- uniform of the ...
... true . Their two is not the real two , their four not the real four ; so that every word they say chagrins us , and we know not where to begin to set them right . Meantime nature is not slow to equip us in the prison- uniform of the ...
Page 33
... true Let us affront and reprimand the smooth medioc- rity and squalid contentment of the times , and hurl in the face of custom , and trade , and office , the fact which is the upshot of all history , that there is a great responsible ...
... true Let us affront and reprimand the smooth medioc- rity and squalid contentment of the times , and hurl in the face of custom , and trade , and office , the fact which is the upshot of all history , that there is a great responsible ...
Page 34
... true man is a cause , a country , and an age ; requires infinite spaces and numbers and time fully to ac- complish his thought ; —and posterity seem to follow his steps as a proces- sion . A man Cæsar is born and for ages after , we ...
... true man is a cause , a country , and an age ; requires infinite spaces and numbers and time fully to ac- complish his thought ; —and posterity seem to follow his steps as a proces- sion . A man Cæsar is born and for ages after , we ...
Page 36
... true prince . Our read- ing is mendicant and sycophantic . In history , our imagination makes fools of us , plays us false . Kingdom and lordship , power and estate are a gaudier vocabulary than private John and Edward in a small house ...
... true prince . Our read- ing is mendicant and sycophantic . In history , our imagination makes fools of us , plays us false . Kingdom and lordship , power and estate are a gaudier vocabulary than private John and Edward in a small house ...
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