EssaysLittle Leather Library Corporation, 1910 - 96 pages |
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Page 110
... never be any doubt concerning the respective ability of human beings when we seek the truth . Pretension may sit still , but cannot act . Pretension never feigned an act of real greatness . ) Pretension never wrote an Iliad , nor drove ...
... never be any doubt concerning the respective ability of human beings when we seek the truth . Pretension may sit still , but cannot act . Pretension never feigned an act of real greatness . ) Pretension never wrote an Iliad , nor drove ...
Page 162
... never with any thing less , or any thing else . The only reward of virtue is virtue : the only way to have a friend is to be one . You shall not come nearer a man by getting into his house . If unlike , his soul only flees the faster ...
... never with any thing less , or any thing else . The only reward of virtue is virtue : the only way to have a friend is to be one . You shall not come nearer a man by getting into his house . If unlike , his soul only flees the faster ...
Page 206
Ralph Waldo Emerson. me that I should never appear to disadvantage , never make a ridiculous figure ? Let us be generous of our dignity as well as of our money . Greatness once and for ever has done with opinion . We tell our charities ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson. me that I should never appear to disadvantage , never make a ridiculous figure ? Let us be generous of our dignity as well as of our money . Greatness once and for ever has done with opinion . We tell our charities ...
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