... complaining the rest of his life. A sturdy lad from New Hampshire or Vermont, who in turn tries all the professions, who teams it, farms it, peddles, keeps a school, preaches, edits a newspaper, goes to Congress, buys a township, and so forth, in... Essays, First Series - Page 66by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1879 - 290 pagesFull view - About this book
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...faith in the worth of the individual. In " Self-Reliance " he says : Let a stoic arise who shall reveal the resources of man and tell men they are not leaning...willows, but can and must detach themselves — that a man is the word made flesh — and that the moment he acts from himself, tossing the laws, the books,... | |
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