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Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern - Page 5427
edited by - 1897
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The Universal Anthology: A Collection of the Best Literature ..., Volume 23

Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - 1899 - 440 pages
...power and deity, Yet in themselves are nothing. The good are befriended even by weakness and defect. As no man had ever a point of pride that was not injurious to him, so no man had ever a defect that was not somewhere made useful to him. The stag in the fable admired...
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Essays of American Essayists: Including Biographical and Critical Sketches ...

1900 - 496 pages
...and deity, Yet in themselves are nothing." The good are befriended even by weakness and defect. As no man had ever a point of pride that was not injurious to him, so no man had ever a defect that was not somewhere made useful to him. The stag in the fable admired...
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Essays of American Essayists: Including Biographical and Critical Sketches ...

1900 - 514 pages
...power and deity, Yet in themselves are nothing." The good are befriended even by weakness and defect As no man had ever a point of pride that was not injurious to him, so no man had ever a defect that was not somewhere made useinl to him. The stag in the fable admired...
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Essays. 1901

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1901 - 554 pages
...and deity, Yet in themselves are nothing." The good are befriended even by weakness and defect. As no man had ever a point of pride that was not injurious to him, so no man had ever a defect that was not somewhere made useful to him. The stag in the fable admired...
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Every Day with Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 294 pages
...has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. (Ortuln-r tljirtmt T~*HE exclusive in fashionable life does not see that...himself from enjoyment in the attempt to appropriate it. Compensation (i)rtulu'r tinirtn-ii 13 EGRET calamities, if you can thereby help the sufferer; if not,...
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Every Day with Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 110 pages
...found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. ffirtottrr tljirtmt HP HE exclusive in fashionable life does not see that he...himself from enjoyment in the attempt to appropriate it. Compensation GJmilu'r fourteen I> EGRET calamities, if you can thereby help the sufferer; if not, attend...
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The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays. 1st series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 478 pages
...and deity, Yet in thenuelves are nothing." « The good are befriended even by weakness and defect. As no man had ever a point of pride that was not injurious to him, so no man had ever a defect that was not somewhere made useful to him. The stag in the fable admired...
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Compensation: An Essay

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 104 pages
...deity, Yet in themselves are nothing." The good are befriended even by 49 weakness and defe<5l. As no man had ever a point of pride that was not injurious to him, so no man had ever a defe6l that was not somewhere made useful to him. The Stag in the fable admired...
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 362 pages
...and deity, Yet in themselves are nothing." 28 The good are befriended even by weakness and defect. As no man had ever a point of pride that was not injurious to him, so no man had ever a defect that was not somewhere made useful to him. The stag in the fable admired...
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How to Speak in Public

Grenville Kleiser - 1906 - 556 pages
...has a call of the power to do something unique.'' Exclusiveness is deadly. "The exclusive in social life does not see that he excludes himself from enjoyment...The exclusionist in religion does not see that he slrats the door of heaven on himself in striving to shut out others. Treat men as pawns and ninepins,...
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