Essays, First SeriesPhillips, Sampson & Company, 1852 |
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Page 43
... better securing of his bread to each shareholder , to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater . The virtue in most request is conformity . Self - reliance is its aversion . It loves not realities and creators , but names and ...
... better securing of his bread to each shareholder , to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater . The virtue in most request is conformity . Self - reliance is its aversion . It loves not realities and creators , but names and ...
Page 45
... better than whim at last , but we cannot spend the day in explanation . Expect me not to show cause why I seek or why I exclude company . Then , again , do not tell me , as a good man did to - day , of my obligation to put all poor men ...
... better than whim at last , but we cannot spend the day in explanation . Expect me not to show cause why I seek or why I exclude company . Then , again , do not tell me , as a good man did to - day , of my obligation to put all poor men ...
Page 47
... better than you know it . It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after our own ; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independ- ence ...
... better than you know it . It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after our own ; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independ- ence ...
Page 58
... better than the oak which is its fulness and completion ? Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being ? Whence , then , this worship of the past ? The centuries are conspirators against the sanity and ...
... better than the oak which is its fulness and completion ? Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being ? Whence , then , this worship of the past ? The centuries are conspirators against the sanity and ...
Page 78
... better than a town ? Ask nothing of men , and in the end- less mutation , thou only firm column must presently appear the upholder of all that surrounds thee . He who knows that power is inborn , that he is weak because he has looked ...
... better than a town ? Ask nothing of men , and in the end- less mutation , thou only firm column must presently appear the upholder of all that surrounds thee . He who knows that power is inborn , that he is weak because he has looked ...
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