The Essay on Self-relianceThe Roycrofters, 1908 - 82 pages |
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Page 10
... and done his best ; but what he has said or done otherwise , shall give him no peace . It is a deliverance which does not deliver . In the at- tempt his genius deserts him ; no muse befriends ; no invention , no hope . Trust 10.
... and done his best ; but what he has said or done otherwise , shall give him no peace . It is a deliverance which does not deliver . In the at- tempt his genius deserts him ; no muse befriends ; no invention , no hope . Trust 10.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson. muse befriends ; no invention , no hope . Trust thyself : every heart vibrates to that iron string . Accept the place Self- the divine Providence has found for Reliance you ; the society of your contempo- raries ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson. muse befriends ; no invention , no hope . Trust thyself : every heart vibrates to that iron string . Accept the place Self- the divine Providence has found for Reliance you ; the society of your contempo- raries ...
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... ☛ The other terror that scares us from self - trust is our consistency ; a rever- ence for our past act or word , because the eyes of others have no other data for computing our orbit than our past acts , and we are loath to disappoint 26.
... ☛ The other terror that scares us from self - trust is our consistency ; a rever- ence for our past act or word , because the eyes of others have no other data for computing our orbit than our past acts , and we are loath to disappoint 26.
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... Trust your emotion . In your metaphysics you have denied personality to the Deity : yet when the devout motions of the soul come , yield to them heart and life , though they should clothe God with shape and color . Leave your theory as ...
... Trust your emotion . In your metaphysics you have denied personality to the Deity : yet when the devout motions of the soul come , yield to them heart and life , though they should clothe God with shape and color . Leave your theory as ...
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... trust . Who is the Trustee ? What is the aborigi- nal Self on which a universal re- liance may be grounded ? What is the nature and power of that science- baffling star , without parallax , with- out calculable elements , which shoots a ...
... trust . Who is the Trustee ? What is the aborigi- nal Self on which a universal re- liance may be grounded ? What is the nature and power of that science- baffling star , without parallax , with- out calculable elements , which shoots a ...
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