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" ... when the unintelligent brute force that lies at the bottom of society is made to growl and mow, it needs the habit of magnanimity and religion to treat it godlike as a trifle of no concernment. "
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by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1900
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The American Scholar,: Self-reliance, Compensation,

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1911 - 148 pages
...force that lies at the bottom of society is made to growl and mow,2 it needs the habit of magnanimity and religion to treat it godlike as a trifle of no...other terror that scares us from self-trust is our consist- 10 ency ; a reverence for our past act or word, because the eyes of others have no other data...
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English Prose: A Series of Related Essays for the Discussion and Practice of ...

Frederick William Roe, George Roy Elliott - 1913 - 530 pages
...it needs the habit of magnanimity and religion to treat it godlike as a trifle of no concernment. 20 The other terror that scares us from self-trust is...our past acts, and we are loath to disappoint them. 25 But why should you keep your head over your shoulder? Why drag about this monstrous corpse of your...
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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
...force that lies at the bottom of society is made to growl and mow, it needs the habit of magnanimity and religion to treat it godlike as a trifle of no concernment. 20 The other terror that scares us from self-trust is our consistency; a reverence for our past act...
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College Life

Maurice Garland Fulton - 1914 - 568 pages
...force that lies at the bottom of society is made to growl and mow, it needs the habit of magnanimity and religion to treat it godlike as a trifle of no...act or word because the eyes of others have no other date for computing our orbit than our past acts, and we are loath to disappoint them. But why should...
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Readings from American Literature: A Textbook for Schools and Colleges

Mary Edwards Calhoun, Emma Leonora MacAlarney - 1915 - 670 pages
...force that lies at the bottom of society is made to growl and mow, it needs the habit of magnanimity and religion to treat it godlike as a trifle of no concernment. But why should you keep your head over your shoulder ? Why drag about this corpse of your memory, lest...
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Emerson's Essays on Manners, Self-reliance, Compensation, Nature, Friendship

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1915 - 200 pages
...force that lies at the bottom of society is made to growl and mow, it needs the habit of magnanimity and religion to treat it godlike as a trifle of no concernment. 25 The other terror that scares us from self-trust is our consistency ; a reverence for our past act...
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English and Engineering

Frank Aydelotte - 1917 - 420 pages
...conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs. The other terror that scares us from self-trust is...computing our orbit than our past acts, and we are loth to disappoint them. But why should you keep your head over your shoulder? Why drag about this...
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An American Bible

Alice Hubbard - 1918 - 382 pages
...needs the. habit of magnanimity and religion to treat it godlike as a trifle of no concernment. <I The other terror that scares us from self-trust is our consistency : a reverence for cur past act or word, because the eyes of others have no other data for computing our orbit than our...
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Rough-hewn

Dorothy Canfield Fisher - 1922 - 522 pages
...realities and creators, but names and customs. Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist. . . . "The other terror that scares us from self-trust is...consistency; a reverence for our past act or word. . . . But why should you keep your head over your shoulder? Why drag about this corpse of your memory,...
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American Literature

Robert Shafer - 1926 - 1410 pages
...force that lies at the bottom of society is made to growl and mow, it needs the habit of magnanimity bjection 334 335 past act or word because the eyes of others have no other data for computing our orbit than...
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