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" We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds. "
The American Scholar,: Self-reliance, Compensation, - Page 46
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1911 - 132 pages
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Whitman's Ideal Democracy: And Other Writings

Helena Born - 1902 - 136 pages
...bear, but to be reckoned in the gross, in the hundred or the thousand of the party, the section, to which we belong, and our opinion predicted geographically,...South ? Not so, brothers and friends — please God, // UQt I ours shall not be so. We wjll walk on our own feet, we will work with our own hands, we will...
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The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature addresses and lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 520 pages
...bear, but to be reckoned in the gross, in the hundred, or the thousand, of the party, the section, to which we belong; and our opinion predicted geographically,...letters shall be no longer a name for pity, for doubt, and for sensual indulgence. The dread of man and the love of man shall be a wall of defence and a wreath...
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The South Atlantic Quarterly, Volume 2

John Spencer Bassett, Edwin Mims, William Henry Glasson, William Preston Few, William Kenneth Boyd, William Hane Wannamaker - 1903 - 426 pages
...bear, but to be reckoned in the gross, in the hundred, or the thousand, of the party, the section to which we belong; and our opinion predicted geographically,...and friends, — please God, ours shall not be so. . . . [Henceforth] we will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our...
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The Compromises of Life, and Other Lectures and Addresses, Including Some ...

Henry Watterson - 1903 - 510 pages
...convictions of right and duty, as Emerson would have him be. For was it not Emerson who exclaimed: "We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds"? Taking a hint from the whimsies of my archaic philosopher, Mr. Chairman, I shall begin by a repudiation...
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The Centenary of the Birth of Ralph Waldo Emerson: As Observed in Concord ...

Social Circle in Concord - 1903 - 170 pages
...put courage into ten thousand hearts. " Trust thyself ; every heart vibrates to that iron string." " We will walk on our own feet ; we will work with our own hands ; we will speak our own minds." " If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts and there abide, the huge world will...
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A History of Literature in America

Barrett Wendell, Chester Noyes Greenough - 1904 - 468 pages
...bear, but to be reckoned in the gross, in the hundred, or the thousand, of the party, the section, to which we belong; and our opinion predicted geographically,...will speak our own minds. The study of letters shall no longer be a name for pity, for doubt, and for sensual indulgence. The dread of man and the love...
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Modern English Prose

George Rice Carpenter, William Tenney Brewster - 1904 - 506 pages
...bear, but to be reckoned in the gross, in the hundred, or the thousand, of the party, the section, to which we belong ; and our opinion predicted geographically,...with our own hands ; we will speak our own minds. Then shall man be no longer a name for pity, for doubt, and for sensual indulgence. The dread of man...
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The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: society & solitude. Letters & social aims ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 564 pages
...bear, but to be reckoned in the gross, in the hundred^, or the thousand, of the party, the section, to which we belong; and our opinion predicted geographically,...our own feet ; we will work with our own hands ; we r will speak our own minds. The study of letters shall be no longer a name for pity, for doubt, and...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson, John Lothrop Motley: Two Memoirs

Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1904 - 592 pages
...to him." Each man must be a unit, — must yield that peculiar fruit which he was created to bear. "We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands ; we will speak our own minds. ... A nation of men will for the first time exist, because each believes himself inspired by the Divine...
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Truth and Freedom

Thomas Hebblewhite - 1904 - 902 pages
...pretension." ' ' Not he is great who can alter matter, but he who can alter my state of mind. ' ' ' ' We will walk on our own feet ; we will work with our own hands ; we will speak our own minds. ' ' "But speak the truth, and all nature and all spirits help you with unexpected furtherance. ' '...
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