Essays, First SeriesJohn B. Alden, 1886 - 343 pages |
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Page 51
Ralph Waldo Emerson. He cumbers himself never about consequences , about interests ; he gives an independent , genuine verdict . You must court him ; he does not court you . But the man is as it were clapped into jail by his ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson. He cumbers himself never about consequences , about interests ; he gives an independent , genuine verdict . You must court him ; he does not court you . But the man is as it were clapped into jail by his ...
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... never varnish your hard , un- charitable ambition with this incredible tenderness for black folk a thousand miles off . Thy love afar is spite at home . ' Rough and graceless would be such greeting , but truth is handsomer than the af ...
... never varnish your hard , un- charitable ambition with this incredible tenderness for black folk a thousand miles off . Thy love afar is spite at home . ' Rough and graceless would be such greeting , but truth is handsomer than the af ...
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... never to rely on your mem- ory alone , scarcely even in acts of pure memory , but to bring the past for judgment into the thou- sand - eyed present , and live ever in a new day . In your metaphysics you have denied personality to the ...
... never to rely on your mem- ory alone , scarcely even in acts of pure memory , but to bring the past for judgment into the thou- sand - eyed present , and live ever in a new day . In your metaphysics you have denied personality to the ...
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... never bow and apologize more . A great man is coming to eat at my house . I do not wish to please him ; I wish that he should wish to please me . I will stand here for humanity , and though I would make it kind , I would make it true ...
... never bow and apologize more . A great man is coming to eat at my house . I do not wish to please him ; I wish that he should wish to please me . I will stand here for humanity , and though I would make it kind , I would make it true ...
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... never imitate . Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumu- lative force of a whole life's cultivation ; but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extem- poraneous half possession . That which each can do best ...
... never imitate . Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumu- lative force of a whole life's cultivation ; but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extem- poraneous half possession . That which each can do best ...
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