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" They did not yet see, and thousands of young men as hopeful now crowding to the barriers for the career do not yet see, that if the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him. "
Essays, orations and lectures - Page 69
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 385 pages
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A Literary History of America

Barrett Wendell - 1900 - 598 pages
...of which the closing paragraph is among the most articulate assertions of his individualism : — " If the single man plant himself indomitably on his...there abide, the huge world will come round to him. Patience, — patience ; with the shades of all the good and great for company ; and for solace the...
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The American Scholar: An Address

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1901 - 140 pages
...which the principles on which business is managed inspire, and turn drudges, or die of disgust, some of them suicides. What is the remedy ? They did not...there abide, the huge world will come round to him. Patience, — patience; with the shades of all the good and great for company; and for solace, the...
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History, Self-reliance, Nature, Spiritual Laws, The American Scholar

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 206 pages
...principles on which business is managed inspire, and turn drudges, or die of disgust, some of them 179 ' suicides. What is the remedy? They did not yet see,...man •plant himself indomitably on his instincts, I and there abide, the huge world will come round to him. Patience — patience; with the \ shades...
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Investigations of the Department of Psychology and Education of ..., Volumes 1-3

University of Colorado. Department of Psychology and Education - 1902 - 588 pages
...manikins. The chief business of the world and the final end of creation is the building of man. for "if the single man plant himself indomitably on his...there abide, the huge world will come round to him." In this connection Emerson gives emphasis to the dependence of the scholar upon the Universal Mind,...
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Familiar Quotations: A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced ...

1903 - 1186 pages
...ought to die." Sacrifice. For what avail the plough or sail, Or land or life, if freedom fail ? Boston. If the single man plant himself indomitably on his...and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.1 Nature. Addresses and Lectures. The American Scholar. There is no great and no small 3 To the...
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Orations from Homer to William McKinley, Volume 14

Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - 1902 - 468 pages
...which the principles on which business is managed inspire, and turn drudges, or die of disgust — some of them suicides. What is the remedy? They did not yet see, and thousands of young men as hopeful nowcrowding to the barriers for the career, do not yet see that if the single man plant himself indomitably...
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The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: With a Biographical ..., Volume 1

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 524 pages
...which the principles on which business is managed inspire, and turn drudges, or die of disgust, some of them suicides. What is the remedy ? They did not...there abide, the huge world will come round to him.' Patience, — patience ; with the shades of all the good and great for company ; and for solace the...
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Nature, Addresses and Lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 530 pages
...He never had to recant, to make a new start, to modify, or apologize." He said in his early manhood, "If the single man plant himself indomitably on his...there abide, the huge world will come round to him." The year after the end of the Civil War, in the triumph of freedom, Mr. Emerson was again invited to...
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The Bookman, Volume 17

1903 - 706 pages
...listened too much," said he, "to the courtly Muses of Europe." And then he added: "What is the remedy? If the single man plant himself indomitably on his...there abide, the huge world will come round to him." Could anything be more independently and courageously American than that? It was, indeed, his Americanism,...
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The Centenary of the Birth of Ralph Waldo Emerson: As Observed in Concord ...

Social Circle in Concord - 1903 - 170 pages
..." 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...there abide, the huge world will come round to him." " We are parlor soldiers. We shun the rugged battle of fate where strength is born." " But we sit and...
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