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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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The Most of it: Essays on Language and the Imagination

Theodore Baird - 1999 - 280 pages
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Pragmatism and Classical American Philosophy: Essential Readings and ...

John J. Stuhr - 2000 - 724 pages
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A Difficult Grace: On Poets, Poetry, and Writing

Michael Ryan - 2000 - 204 pages
...told an audience at Harvard in 1833: "We have listened too long to the courtly muses of Europe. ... If the single man plant himself indomitably on his...there abide, the huge world will come round to him. ... A nation of men will for the first time exist." Being a democrat, not a great but "feudal" poet...
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The American Studies Anthology

Richard P. Horwitz - 2001 - 420 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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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Oliver Wendell Holmes - 2001 - 466 pages
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The Emerson Dilemma: Essays on Emerson and Social Reform

T. Gregory Garvey - 2001 - 310 pages
...image that describes the connection between individual and political consensus. He emphatically asserts that "if the single man plant himself indomitably...there abide, the huge world will come round to him . . . [Then] a nation of men will for the first time exist because each believes himself inspired by...
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Power Plays: Win or Lose--How History's Great Political Leaders Play the Game

Dick Morris - 2003 - 384 pages
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Lewis Mumford, a Life

Donald L. Miller - 2002 - 676 pages
...young American scholars of his day, and he rested his hopes for his long-term reputation on this: "If a single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts,...there abide, the huge world will come round to him. ... A nation of men will for the first time exist. "t Chronology 1895 Born October 19 in Flushing,...
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Robert Kennedy and His Times

Arthur Meier Schlesinger (Jr.) - 1978 - 1092 pages
...was passed to him. It read; For Al, who knew the lesson of Emerson and taught it to the rest of us; "They did not yet see, and thousands of young men as hopeful, now crowding to the harriers of their careers, did not yet see if a single man plant himself on his convictions and then...
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Demonology and Devil Lore, 1879, Volume 2

Moncure Daniel Conway - 2003 - 488 pages
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