The Essay on Self-relianceThe Roycrofters, 1908 - 82 pages |
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Page 15
... virtue in most re- quest is conformity . Self - reliance is its aversion . It loves not realities and creators , but names and customs . Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist He who would gather immortal palms must not 15.
... virtue in most re- quest is conformity . Self - reliance is its aversion . It loves not realities and creators , but names and customs . Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist He who would gather immortal palms must not 15.
Page 19
... Societies ; though I confess with shame I sometimes succumb and give the dollar , it is a wicked dollar which by - and - by I shall have the manhood to withhold . Virtues are in the popular estimate rather the exception than 19.
... Societies ; though I confess with shame I sometimes succumb and give the dollar , it is a wicked dollar which by - and - by I shall have the manhood to withhold . Virtues are in the popular estimate rather the exception than 19.
Page 20
Ralph Waldo Emerson. Virtues are in the popular estimate rather the exception than the rule . Self- There is the man and his virtues . Reliance Men do what is called a good action , as some piece of courage or charity , much as they ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson. Virtues are in the popular estimate rather the exception than the rule . Self- There is the man and his virtues . Reliance Men do what is called a good action , as some piece of courage or charity , much as they ...
Page 30
... virtue or vice only by overt actions and do not see that virtue or vice emit a breath every moment I Fear never but you shall be consist- ent in whatever variety of actions , so they be each honest and natural in their hour . For of one ...
... virtue or vice only by overt actions and do not see that virtue or vice emit a breath every moment I Fear never but you shall be consist- ent in whatever variety of actions , so they be each honest and natural in their hour . For of one ...
Page 31
... virtue work their health into this . What makes the majesty of the heroes of the senate and the field , which so fills the imagination ? The consciousness of a train of great days and victories behind . There they all stand and shed an ...
... virtue work their health into this . What makes the majesty of the heroes of the senate and the field , which so fills the imagination ? The consciousness of a train of great days and victories behind . There they all stand and shed an ...
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