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" We solicitously and apologetically caress and celebrate him because he held on his way and scorned our disapprobation. The gods love him because men hated him. " To the persevering mortal," said Zoroaster, " the blessed Immortals are swift. "
So this Then is the Essay on Self-reliance - Page 31
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 46 pages
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Emerson's Essays and Poems: Selected and Edited with an Introd

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1926 - 412 pages
...because men hated him. "To the persevering mortal," said Zoroaster, "the blessed Immortals are swift." As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their...any man with us, and we will obey.' Everywhere I am •••^nndered of meeting God in my brother, because he has shut his own temple doors, and recites...
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American Literature

Robert Shafer - 1926 - 1410 pages
...hated him. "To the persevering mortal," said Zoroaster, "the blessed Immortals are swift." 340 34* As ing winds fo@ 5 obey."1 Everywhere I am hindered of meeting God in my brother, because he has shut his own temple doors...
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Liberty and the Great Libertarians: An Anthology on Liberty, a Hand-book of ...

Charles T. Sprading - 1913 - 550 pages
...very ill laid out. Literary history and all history is a record of the power of minorities of one. As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect. The history of the State sketches in coarse outline the progress of thought, and follows at a distance...
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The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: First Series. Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1979 - 434 pages
...because men hated him. "To the persevering mortal," said Zoroaster, "the blessed Immortals are swift." As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their...any man with us, and we will obey.' Everywhere I am hindered of meeting God in my brother, because he has shut his own temple doors, and recites fables...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays and Lectures (LOA #15): Nature; Addresses, and ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1983 - 1196 pages
...because men hated him. "To the persevering mortal," said Zoroaster, "the blessed Immortals are swift." As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their...any man with us, and we will obey.' Everywhere I am hindered of meeting God in my brother, because he has shut his own temple doors, and recites fables...
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New Adam: The Future of Male Spirituality

Philip Leroy Culbertson - 1992 - 188 pages
...false prayers are our regrets. Discontent is the want of self-reliance; it is infirmity of will. ... As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect. . . . But in all unbalanced minds, the classification is idolized, passes for the end, and not for...
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The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations

Robert Andrews - 1993 - 1214 pages
...can digest. HAVELOCK ELLIS (1 859-1939), British psychologist. The Dance of Life. ch. 5(1923). 4 As the way the world ends RALPH WALDO EMERSON (1803-82). US essayist, poet, philosopher. F".i>- "Self-Reliance* (First Series,...
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Apollonius the Nazarene: Mystery Man of the Bible

Raymond W. Bernard - 1996 - 78 pages
...WALDO EMERSON. Prayer as a mean! to effect a private end la meannesa and theft — As men-s prayers arc a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the Intellect. — RALPH WALDO EMERSON. An astounding revelation saved from the flames that burnt the Alexandrian...
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A Critic's Journey: Literary Reflections, 1958-1998

Geoffrey H. Hartman, Professor Geoffrey H Hartman - 1999 - 348 pages
...sense of the human family. "Everywhere," Emerson later complained in "Self-Reliance," "I am hindered of meeting God in my brother, because he has shut...temple doors and recites fables merely of his brother's God. Every new mind is a new classification." Presumably, what we learn from neglected "voices"—whedier...
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Habits of Mind: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education

Antonio T. De Nicolás - 2000 - 582 pages
...shoes from off their feet, for God is here within." But is this the God of religion? Certainly not: "As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect." How does Emerson view himself in relations with others and society? His attitude does not seem salutary...
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