The Essay on Self-relianceThe Roycrofters, 1908 - 82 pages |
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Page 17
... truth in all ways . If malice and vanity wear the coat of philanthropy , shall that pass ? If an angry bigot assumes this bountiful cause of Abolition , and comes to me with his last news of the Barbadoes , why should I not say to him ...
... truth in all ways . If malice and vanity wear the coat of philanthropy , shall that pass ? If an angry bigot assumes this bountiful cause of Abolition , and comes to me with his last news of the Barbadoes , why should I not say to him ...
Page 18
... truth is handsomer than the affectation of love goodness must have some edge to it - else it is none . The doctrine of hatred must be preached as the coun- teraction of the doctrine of love when that pules and whines . I shun father and ...
... truth is handsomer than the affectation of love goodness must have some edge to it - else it is none . The doctrine of hatred must be preached as the coun- teraction of the doctrine of love when that pules and whines . I shun father and ...
Page 24
... truth is not Reliance quite 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 ...
... truth is not Reliance quite 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 ...
Page 40
... truth . When we discern justice , we discern truth , we do nothing of ourselves , but allow a passage to its beams . If we ask whence this comes , if we seek to pry into the soul that causes , -all metaphysics , all philosophy is at ...
... truth . When we discern justice , we discern truth , we do nothing of ourselves , but allow a passage to its beams . If we ask whence this comes , if we seek to pry into the soul that causes , -all metaphysics , all philosophy is at ...
Page 46
... truth on this subject remains unsaid ; prob- ably , cannot be said ; for all that we say is the far off remembering of the intuition . That thought , by what I can now nearest approach to say it , is this . When good is near you , when ...
... truth on this subject remains unsaid ; prob- ably , cannot be said ; for all that we say is the far off remembering of the intuition . That thought , by what I can now nearest approach to say it , is this . When good is near you , when ...
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