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" Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. "
Essays: First Series - Page 44
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 290 pages
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God in the Stadium: Sports and Religion in America

Robert J. Higgs - 1995 - 404 pages
...success" (quoted in Stessel 173). A justly famous passage from "Self-Reliance" summarizes the position: "Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron...done so, and confided themselves childlike to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the absolutely trustworthy was seated at their...
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Unity, Volume 30

1909 - 498 pages
...thorough examination and told her she would sutely get well. Her recovery followed without medicine. Trust thyself : every heart vibrates to that iron...always done so and confided themselves childlike to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the Eternal was stirring at their heart, working...
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The Six Steps in Mental Mastery

Henry H. Brown - 1996 - 114 pages
...yesterdays are the blocks with which we build, says the poet again. We cannot choose the material. Accept the place the Divine Providence has found for you. The society of your contemporaries and the connection o{ events, says Emerson in that, to me, epochal paragraph. I pass it on to you....
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John Dewey and the High Tide of American Liberalism

Alan Ryan - 1995 - 426 pages
...and gain a content as they operate in remaking conditions."59 Appealing to Emerson's injunction to "accept the place the divine providence has found...of your contemporaries, the connection of events," Dewey ends with this thought: "To gain an integrated individuality, each of us needs to cultivate his...
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The Wordsworth Dictionary of Quotations

Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 pages
...neighbour, i ho' he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door. 3302 Accept the pla 3303 All the great speakers were bad speakers at first. 3304 All history is but the lengthened shadow...
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If You Want What We Have: Sponsorship Meditations

Joan Larkin - 1998 - 418 pages
...them. Today, I take the opportunity for growth that the presence of someone in my life offers me. 239 Accept the place the divine providence has found for...of your contemporaries, the connection of events. RALPH WALDO EMERSON Every time I look down the list of Steps, I get scared. The Ninth Step scares me...
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The Good Life

Charles B. Guignon - 1999 - 350 pages
...otherwise shall give him no peace. It is a deliverance which does not deliver. In the attempt his genius deserts him; no muse befriends; no invention, no hope....done so, and confided themselves childlike to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the absolutely trustworthy was seated at their...
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The Poetics of Transition: Emerson, Pragmatism, and American Literary Modernism

Jonathan Levin - 1999 - 244 pages
...but those obligations at the same time reflect the individual's relatedness to the world as a whole ("Accept the place the divine providence has found...of your contemporaries, the connection of events" — the next sentence in "Self-Reliance" [EL 26o]). The more individuated piety becomes, the less it...
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The Cambridge Companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson

Joel Porte (ed), Saundra Morris - 1999 - 304 pages
...can afford to be a "rejecter of all that is," but, as Emerson said in "Self-Reliance," must rather "accept the place the divine Providence has found for you; the society of your contemporaries, the connexion of events" (28). Emerson admits that there is a pathology in trifling and an unworthiness...
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Socratic Seminars in the Block

Wanda H. Ball, Pam Brewer - 2000 - 182 pages
...otherwise, shall give him no peace. It is a deliverance which does not deliver. In the attempt his genius deserts him; no muse befriends; no invention, no hope....always done so and confided themselves childlike to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the Eternal was stirring at their heart, working...
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