The Essay on Self-reliance |
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stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time , and we shall be Selfforced to take with shame our own Reliance opinion from another . There is a time in every man's education when he ...
stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time , and we shall be Selfforced to take with shame our own Reliance opinion from another . There is a time in every man's education when he ...
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It is the harder , because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it . It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to 21.
It is the harder , because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it . It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to 21.
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the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after our own ; but Self- the great man is he who in the midst Reliance of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude . The objection to conforming to usages ...
the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after our own ; but Self- the great man is he who in the midst Reliance of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude . The objection to conforming to usages ...
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Well , most men have bound their eyes with one or another handkerchief , and attached themselves to some one of these communities of opinion . This conformity makes them not false in a few particulars , authors of 23.
Well , most men have bound their eyes with one or another handkerchief , and attached themselves to some one of these communities of opinion . This conformity makes them not false in a few particulars , authors of 23.
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Thoughtless people contradict as readily the statement of perceptions as of opinions , or rather much more readily ; for , they do not distinguish between perception and notion . They fancy that I choose to see this or that thing .
Thoughtless people contradict as readily the statement of perceptions as of opinions , or rather much more readily ; for , they do not distinguish between perception and notion . They fancy that I choose to see this or that thing .
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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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