 We want men and women who shall renovate life and our social state, but we see that most natures are insolvent; cannot satisfy their own wants, have an ambition out of all proportion to their practical force, and so do lean and beg day and night continually....  The Essay on Self-reliance - Page 43by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1908 - 59 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1841
...of fortune, afraid of death, and afraid of each other. Our age yields no great and perfect persons. We want men and women who shall renovate life and...so do lean and beg day and night continually. Our housekeeping is mendicant; our arts, our occupations, our marriages, our religion we have not chosen,... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1841
...fortune, afraid of death, and afraid of each other. Our age yields no great and perfect persons. \V'c want men and women who shall renovate life and our social state, but we see that most natures are No man can learn what he has not preparation for learning, however near to his eyes is the object.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 333 pages
...of fortune, afraid of death, and afraid of each other. Our age yields no great and perfect persons. We want men and women who shall renovate life and...out of all proportion to their practical force, and do lean and beg day and night continually. Our housekeeping is mendicant, our arts, our occupations,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 364 pages
...of fortune, afraid of death, and afraid of each other. Our age yields no great and perfect persons. We want men and women who shall renovate life and...so do lean and beg day and night continually. Our housekeeping is mendicant, our arts, our occupations, our marriages, our religion we have not chosen,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 385 pages
...of fortune, afraid of death, and afraid of each other. Our age yields no great and perfect persons. We want men and women who shall renovate life and...so do lean and beg day and night continually. Our housekeeping is mendicant; our arts, our occupations, our marriages, our religion we have not chosen,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1849
...of fortune, afraid of death, and afraid of each other. Our age yields no great and perfect persons. We want men and women who shall renovate life and...so do lean and beg day and night continually. Our housekeeping is mendicant, our arts, our occupations, our marriages, our religion we have not chosen,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 333 pages
...of fortune, afraid of death, and afraid of each other. Our age yields no great and perfect persons. We want men and women who shall renovate life and...out of all proportion to their practical force, and do lean and beg day and night continually. Our housekeeping is mendicant, our arts, our occupations,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 333 pages
...of fortune, afraid of death, and afraid of each other. Our age yields no great and perfect persons. We want men and women who shall renovate life and...out of all proportion to their practical force, and do lean and beg day and night continually. Our housekeeping is mendicant, our arts, our occupations,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1853
...of fortune, afraid of death, and afraid of each other. Our age yields no great and perfect persons. We want men and women who shall renovate life and...so do lean and beg day and night continually. Our housekeeping is mendicant, our arts, our occupations, our marriages, our religion we have not chosen,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1853
...of fortune, afraid of death, and afraid of each other. Our age yields no great and perfect persons. We want men and women who shall renovate life and...so do lean and beg day and night continually. Our housekeeping is mendicant, our arts, our occupations, our marriages, our religion we have not chosen,... | |
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