The Essay on Self-relianceThe Roycrofters, 1908 - 82 pages |
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... wish to expiate , but to live . My life is not an apology , but a life . It is for itself and not for a spectacle . I much prefer that it should be of a lower strain , so it be genuine and equal , than it should be glittering and ...
... wish to expiate , but to live . My life is not an apology , but a life . It is for itself and not for a spectacle . I much prefer that it should be of a lower strain , so it be genuine and equal , than it should be glittering and ...
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... wish to please him : Reliance I wish that he should wish to please me . I will stand here for humanity , and though I would make it kind , I would make it true Let us affront and reprimand the smooth medioc- rity and squalid contentment ...
... wish to please him : Reliance I wish that he should wish to please me . I will stand here for humanity , and though I would make it kind , I would make it true Let us affront and reprimand the smooth medioc- rity and squalid contentment ...
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