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Emerson's Essay on Compensation

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1906 - 50 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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Select Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1907 - 270 pages
...unwinding, as it flies, a coil of cord in the boat, and, if the harpoon is not good, or not well thrown, it1 will go nigh to cut the steersman in twain or to sink...had ever a point of pride that was not injurious to 5 him," said Burke. The exclusive in fashionable life does not see that he excludes himself from enjoyment,...
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Nineteenth Century English Prose: Critical Essays

Thomas H. Dickinson, Frederick William Roe - 1908 - 506 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 in the attempt to appropriate it. 15 The exclusionist in religion does not see that he shuts the door of heaven on himself in striving...
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Composition and Rhetoric

Charles Swain Thomas, Will David Howe - 1908 - 536 pages
...road. —IRVING : Legend of Sleepy Hollow. 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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The Harvard Classics, Volume 5

1909 - 540 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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Select Essays and Addresses: Including The American Scholar

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1912 - 314 pages
...not good, or not well thrown, it will go nigh to cut the steersman in twain or to sink the boat. 28. You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong. "No man...had ever a point of pride that was not injurious to 20 him," said Burke.0 The exclusive in fashionable life does not see that he excludes himself from...
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The Wisdom of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Being Extracts from His Prose and Verse

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1911 - 196 pages
...modesty, and imagine my being here impertinent ? 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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The American Scholar,: Self-reliance, Compensation,

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1911 - 148 pages
...and deity, Yet in themselves are nothing." 25 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 1 There is no place where you can hide...
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Selected Essays

Claude Moore Fuess - 1914 - 244 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 ptag in the fable admired...
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Emerson's Essays on Manners, Self-reliance, Compensation, Nature, Friendship

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1915 - 200 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 20 somewhere made useful to him. The stag in the fable admired...
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