The Essay on Self-relianceThe Roycrofters, 1908 - 82 pages |
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Page 24
... nature is not slow to equip us in the prison- uniform of the party to which we adhere We come to wear one cut of face and figure , and acquire by degrees the gentlest asinine expres- sion There is a mortifying experience in particular ...
... nature is not slow to equip us in the prison- uniform of the party to which we adhere We come to wear one cut of face and figure , and acquire by degrees the gentlest asinine expres- sion There is a mortifying experience in particular ...
Page 29
... nature . All the sallies of his will are rounded in by the law of his being as the inequalities of Andes and Him- maleh are insignificant in the curve of the sphere . Nor does it matter how you gauge and try him . A char- acter is like ...
... nature . All the sallies of his will are rounded in by the law of his being as the inequalities of Andes and Him- maleh are insignificant in the curve of the sphere . Nor does it matter how you gauge and try him . A char- acter is like ...
Page 30
... natural in their hour . For of one will , the actions will be harmonious , however unlike they seem . These varieties are lost sight of when seen at a little distance , at a little height of thought . One tendency unites them all . The ...
... natural in their hour . For of one will , the actions will be harmonious , however unlike they seem . These varieties are lost sight of when seen at a little distance , at a little height of thought . One tendency unites them all . The ...
Page 33
... the centre of things . Where he is there is nature . He measures you , and all men , and all events . You are constrained to accept his standard . Ordinarily everybody in society re- minds us of somewhat else or of some other person 33.
... the centre of things . Where he is there is nature . He measures you , and all men , and all events . You are constrained to accept his standard . Ordinarily everybody in society re- minds us of somewhat else or of some other person 33.
Page 38
... nature and power of that science- baffling star , without parallax , with- out calculable elements , which shoots a ray of beauty even into triv- ial and impure actions , if the least mark of independence appear ? The inquiry leads us ...
... nature and power of that science- baffling star , without parallax , with- out calculable elements , which shoots a ray of beauty even into triv- ial and impure actions , if the least mark of independence appear ? The inquiry leads us ...
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