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Speak your latent conviction and it shall be the universal sense ; for always the inmost becomes the outmost , -and our first thought is rendered back to us by the trumpets of the Last Judgment . - Familiar as the voice of the mind is ...
Speak your latent conviction and it shall be the universal sense ; for always the inmost becomes the outmost , -and our first thought is rendered back to us by the trumpets of the Last Judgment . - Familiar as the voice of the mind is ...
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What is the aboriginal Self on which a universal reliance may be grounded ? What is the nature and power of that sciencebaffling star , without parallax , without calculable elements , which shoots a ray of beauty even into triv . ial ...
What is the aboriginal Self on which a universal reliance may be grounded ? What is the nature and power of that sciencebaffling star , without parallax , without calculable elements , which shoots a ray of beauty even into triv . ial ...
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All things are dissolved to their center by their cause , and in the universal miracle petty and particular miracles disappear la leo This is and must be . If , therefore , a man claims to know and speak of God , 42.
All things are dissolved to their center by their cause , and in the universal miracle petty and particular miracles disappear la leo This is and must be . If , therefore , a man claims to know and speak of God , 42.
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The intellect is vagabond , and the universal system of education fosters restlessness . Our minds travel when our bodies are forced to stay at home . We imitate ; and what is imitation but the traveling of the mind ?
The intellect is vagabond , and the universal system of education fosters restlessness . Our minds travel when our bodies are forced to stay at home . We imitate ; and what is imitation but the traveling of the mind ?
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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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