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The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays. 1st series - Page 50
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903
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English Prose: A Series of Related Essays for the Discussion and Practice of ...

Frederick William Roe, George Roy Elliott - 1913 - 512 pages
...agree, for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture 20 of the eater. The virtue in most request is conformity....who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered 25 by the name of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity...
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English Prose: A Series of Related Essays for the Discussion and Practice of ...

Frederick William Roe, George Roy Elliott - 1913 - 512 pages
...is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. Society is a joint-stock company, in which the members agree, for the better securing...shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture 20 of the eater. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves...
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The Vision Splendid: A Story of Today

William MacLeod Raine - 1913 - 348 pages
...to the ghosts of dead yesterdays that rule to-day. "Whoso would be a man must be a Bon-conformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but mast explore if it be goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind." —...
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Emerson's Essays on Manners, Self-reliance, Compensation, Nature, Friendship

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1915 - 200 pages
...is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. Society is a joint-stock company, in which the members agree, for the better securing...liberty and culture of the eater. The virtue in most 5 request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names...
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a history of american literature

fred lewis pattee - 1915 - 522 pages
...wild dreams as solemn fact. He read Emerson and adopted his philosophy literally and completely: '' Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist." "He...palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness." "Insist on yourself; never imitate." "Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man. For...
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English and Engineering

Frank Aydelotte - 1917 - 420 pages
...is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. Society is a joint-stock company, in which the members agree, for the better securing...not realities and creators, but names and customs. The other terror that scares us from self-trust is our consistency; a reverence for our past act or...
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An American Bible

Alice Hubbard - 1918 - 382 pages
...is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. Society is a joint-stock company in which the members agree, for the better securing...conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realties and creators, but names and customs. <I We can drive a stone upward for a moment into the...
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Essays for College English

James Cloyd Bowman - 1918 - 504 pages
...is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. Society is a joint-stock company, in which the members agree, for the better securing...liberty and culture of the eater. The virtue in most requests is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names...
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Essays and Poems of Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1921 - 580 pages
...is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. Society is a joint-stock company, in which the members agree, for the better securing...bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty ,d culture of the eater. The virtue in most request is rmity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves...
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Rough-hewn

Dorothy Canfield Fisher - 1922 - 522 pages
...fine? . . . "Society is a jointstock company in which the members agree, for the better securing of the bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty...customs. Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist. . . . "The other terror that scares us from self-trust is our consistency; a reverence for our past...
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