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Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern - Page 5427
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Select Essays and Poems

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 168 pages
...anything if he has no chance to run another ? 38. The good are befriended even by weakness and defect. As no man had ever a point of pride that was not injurious to him, so no man had ever a defect that was not somewhere made useful to him. The stag in the fable admired...
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 324 pages
...and deity, Yet in themselves are nothing." The good are befriended even by weakness and defect. As no man had ever a point of pride that was not injurious to him, so no man had ever a defect that was not somewhere made useful to him. The stag in the fable admired...
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 354 pages
...and deity, Yet in themselves are nothing." The good are befriended even by weakness and defect. As no man had ever a point of pride that was not injurious to him, so no man had ever a defect that was not somewhere made useful to him. The stag in the fable admired...
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Essays, orations and lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...and deity. Yet in themselves are nothing." The good are befriended even by weakness and defect. As no man had ever a point of pride that was not injurious to him, so no man had ever a defect that was not somewhere made useful to him. The stag in the fable admired...
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Essays, Lectures and Orations

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...power and deity, Yet in themselves are nothing. The good are befriended even by weakness and defect. As no man had ever a point of pride that was not injurious to him, so no man had ever a defect that was not somewhere made useful to him. The stag in the fable admired...
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Twelve essays [comprising Essays, 1st ser.].

Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...power and deity, Yet in themselves are nothing. The good are befriended even by weakness and defect. As no man had ever a point of pride that was not injurious to him, so no man had ever a defect that was not somewhere made useful to him. The stag in the fable admired...
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Twelve Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...and deity, Yet in themselves are nothing. , The good are befriended even by weakness and defect. As no man had ever a point of pride that was not injurious to him, so no man had ever a defect that was not somewhere made useful to him. The stag in the fable admired...
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Essays, First Series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 354 pages
...and deity, Yet in themselves are nothing." The good are befriended even by weakness and defect. As no man had ever a point of pride that was not injurious to him, so no man had ever a defect that was not somewhere made useful to him. The stag in the fable admired...
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 352 pages
...and deity, Yet in themselves are nothing." The good are befriended even by weakness «nd defect. As no man had ever a point of pride that was not injurious to him, so no man had ever a defect that was not somewhere made useful to him. The stag in the fable admired...
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The History of the War with Russia: Giving Full Details of the ..., Volume 3

Henry Tyrrell - 1855 - 244 pages
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