The Essay on Self-relianceThe Roycrofters, 1908 - 82 pages |
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... thought ; —and posterity seem to follow his steps as a proces- sion . A man Cæsar is born and for ages after , we have a Roman Em- pire . Christ is born , and millions of minds so grow and cleave to His genius , that He is confounded ...
... thought ; —and posterity seem to follow his steps as a proces- sion . A man Cæsar is born and for ages after , we have a Roman Em- pire . Christ is born , and millions of minds so grow and cleave to His genius , that He is confounded ...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson. Here is the fountain of action and the fountain of thought Here Self- are the lungs of that inspiration Reliance which giveth man wisdom , of that inspiration of man which cannot be denied without impiety and atheism ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson. Here is the fountain of action and the fountain of thought Here Self- are the lungs of that inspiration Reliance which giveth man wisdom , of that inspiration of man which cannot be denied without impiety and atheism ...
Page 42
... thought ; and new date and new create the whole . Whenever a mind is simple , and receives a divine wisdom , then old things pass away , -means , teach- ers , texts , temples fall ; it lives now and absorbs past and future into the ...
... thought ; and new date and new create the whole . Whenever a mind is simple , and receives a divine wisdom , then old things pass away , -means , teach- ers , texts , temples fall ; it lives now and absorbs past and future into the ...
Page 46
... thought , by what I can now nearest approach to say it , is this . When good is near you , when you have life in yourself , it is not by any known or appointed way ; you - shall not discern the foot - prints of any other 46.
... thought , by what I can now nearest approach to say it , is this . When good is near you , when you have life in yourself , it is not by any known or appointed way ; you - shall not discern the foot - prints of any other 46.
Page 47
... thought , the Reliance good shall be wholly strange and new It shall exclude all other being . You take the way from man not to man . All persons that ever existed are its fugitive ministers ☛ There shall be no fear in it . Fear and ...
... thought , the Reliance good shall be wholly strange and new It shall exclude all other being . You take the way from man not to man . All persons that ever existed are its fugitive ministers ☛ There shall be no fear in it . Fear and ...
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