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" Why, then, do we prate of self-reliance ? Inasmuch as the soul is present, there will be power not confident but agent. To talk of reliance is a poor external way of speaking. Speak rather of that which relies, because it works and is. "
Essays: First Series - Page 78
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 396 pages
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Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 1

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 504 pages
...reputation to a shame, confounds the saint with the rogue, shoves Jesus and Judas equally aside. Why, then, do we prate of self-reliance ? Inasmuch as the...which relies, because it works and is. Who has more obedience than I masters me, though he should not raise his finger. Round him I must revolve by the...
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The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays. 1st series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 470 pages
...reputation to a shame, confounds the saint with the rogue, shoves Jesus and Judas equally aside. Why then do we prate of self-reliance ? Inasmuch as the...soul is present there will be power not confident but agent.1 To talk of reliance is a poor external way of speaking. Speak rather of that which relies because...
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Essays, First Series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1879 - 304 pages
...reputation to a shame, confounds the saint with the rogue, shoves Jesus and Judas equally aside. Why, then, do we prate of self-reliance ? Inasmuch as the...soul is present, there will be power not confident hut agent. To talk of reliance is a poor external way of speaking. Speak rather of that which relies,...
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Works

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 648 pages
...reputation to a shame, confounds the saint with the rogue, shoves Jesus and Judas equally aside. Why, oul had ever dressed, Thou shalt seem, in each obedience than I masters me, though he should not raise his finger. Round him I must revolve by the...
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Emerson's Complete Works: Essays. 1st series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 352 pages
...reputation to a shame, confounds the saint with the rogue, shoves Jesus and Judas equally aside. Why then do we prate of self-reliance ? Inasmuch as the...which relies because it works and is. Who has more obedience than I masters me, though he should not raise his finger. Round . I',; «' 70 SELF-RELIANCE....
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Complete Works

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1900 - 356 pages
...reputation to a shame, confounds the saint with the rogue, shoves Jesus and Judas equally aside. Why then do we prate of self-reliance ? Inasmuch as the...which relies because it works and is. Who has more obedience than I masters aae, though he should not raise his finger. Round him I must revolve by the...
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Emerson's Complete Works: Essays. 1st series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 350 pages
...way of speaking. Speak rather of that which relies because it works and is. Who has more obedience than I masters me, though he should not raise his...him I must revolve by the gravitation of spirits. We fancy it rhetoric when we speak of eminent virtue. We do not yet see that virtue is Height, and...
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Emerson's complete works [ed. by J.E. Cabot]. Riverside ed, Volume 2

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884 - 356 pages
...reputation to a shame, confounds the saint with the rogue, shoves Jesus and Judas equally aside. Why then do we prate of self-reliance ? Inasmuch as the...which relies because it works and is. Who has more obedience than I masters me, though he should not raise his finger. Round him I must revolve by the...
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Select Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 402 pages
...trustworthy self, which speaks in us when we allow it hearing. Self-reliance is, therefore, self-abandonment. "To talk of reliance is a poor external way of speaking ; speak rather of that which relies." Let, then, the prompting of this self (which ^s«fjso the not-self) find utterance in speech and follo\^ng...
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Essays, First Series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1891 - 406 pages
...reputation to a shame; confounds the saint with the rogue ; shoves Jesus and Judas equally aside. Why then do we prate of self-reliance? Inasmuch as the soul is present, there will be power :iot confident but agent. To talk of reliance, is a poor external way of speaking. Speak rather of...
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