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" We want men and women who shall renovate life and our social state, but we see that most natures are insolvent; cannot satisfy their own wants, have an ambition out of all proportion to their practical force, and so do lean and beg day and night continually.... "
The Essay on Self-reliance - Page 43
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1908 - 59 pages
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884 - 568 pages
...of fortune, afraid of death, and afraid of each other. Our age yields no great and perfect persons. We want men and women who shall renovate life and...out of all proportion to their practical force, and do lean ' .i and beg day and night continually. Our housekeeping is mendicant, our arts, our occupations,...
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The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language, Part 11

William Dwight Whitney - 1889 - 282 pages
...to pay in full," admits his insolvency. Cunningham v. Norton, 125 US, 77. We see that most nations are insolvent, cannot satisfy their own wants, have...ambition out of all proportion to their practical force. Einersvn, Self-reliance. Of positive truth he was born insolvent. JT Fields, Underbrush, p. 72. 2....
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The American Scholar: Self-reliance; Compensation

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1893 - 120 pages
...of fortune, afraid of death, and afraid of each other. Our age yields no great and perfect persons. We want men and women who shall renovate life and...out of all proportion to their practical force, and do lean and beg day and night continually. Our housekeeping is mendicant, our arts, our occupations,...
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Essays: First Series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1894 - 334 pages
...afcsid ^ each desponding whimperers. We are afraid of truth, other. Our age yields no great, sons. We want men and women who shall renovate life and...all proportion to their practical force, and so do learn and beg day and night continually. Our housekeeping is mendicant, our arts, our occupations,...
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Emerson, Volume 1

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1899 - 380 pages
...of fortune, afraid of death and afraid of each other. Our age yields no great and perfect persons. We want men and women who shall renovate life and...out of all proportion to their practical force, and do lean and beg day and night continually. Our housekeeping is mendicant, our arts, our occupations,...
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Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern: English and Foreign ...

1899 - 704 pages
...men write now as if they expected that 25 their works should live no more than a month. Lord Orford. Most natures are insolvent ; cannot satisfy their...of all proportion to their practical force, and so dp lean and beg day and night continually. ILmerson. Most of our evils come from our vices, Гг. Most...
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So this Then is the Essay on Self-reliance

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 64 pages
...of fortune, afraid of death, and afraid of each other. Our age yields no great and perfect persons. We want men and women who shall renovate life and...so do lean and beg day and night continually. Our housekeeping is mendicant, our arts, our occupations, our marriages, our religion we have not chosen,...
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Thoughts from Emerson: Selections from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 178 pages
...of fortune, afraid of death, and afraid of each other. Our age yields no great and perfect persons. We want men and women who shall renovate life and...so do lean and beg day and night continually. Our housekeeping is mendicant, our arts, our occupations, our marriages, our religion we have not chosen,...
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A Selection from the Best English Essays Illustrative of the History of ...

Sherwin Cody - 1903 - 508 pages
...of fortune, afraid of death, and afraid of each other. Our age yields no great and perfect persons. We want men and women who shall renovate life and...out of all proportion to their practical force, and do lean and beg day and night continually. Our housekeeping is mendicant, our arts, our occupations,...
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The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays. 1st series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 478 pages
...of fortune, afraid of death, and afraid of each other. Our age yields no great and perfect persons. We want men and women who shall renovate life and...out of all proportion to their practical force and do lean and beg day and night continually. Our housekeeping is mendicant, our arts, our occupations,...
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