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" ... if the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him. "
Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge - Page 324
1896
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Select Essays and Addresses: Including The American Scholar

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1912 - 314 pages
...thousands of young men as hopeful now crowding to the barriers for the career do not yet see, that if the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, 5 the huge world will come round to him. Patience, - — patience ; with the shades0 of all the good...
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The American Scholar,: Self-reliance, Compensation,

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1911 - 148 pages
...thousands of young men as hopeful now 25 crowding to the barriers for the career, do not yet see, that, if the single man plant himself indomitably on his...round to him. Patience, — patience ; — with the shades1 of all the good and great for company ; an^ for spJace, the perspective_QX>Yo-^ own infinitejife...
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Day Unto Day

Louis Howland - 1911 - 312 pages
...on the fundamental truths of his time and of ours, and the city heard him. Our own Emerson has said: "If the single man plant himself indomitably on his...there abide, the huge world will come round to him." That was what the prophet did. His instincts were sound, they were his — planted in him by God. Of...
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William Lloyd Garrison

John Jay Chapman - 1913 - 302 pages
...thousands of young men as hopeful now crowding to the barriers for the career do not yet see, that if the single man plant himself indomitably on his...there abide, the huge world will come round to him." The difference between Emerson and Garrison is that Emerson is interested in aesthetic, Garrison in...
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Principles of Character Making

Arthur Holmes - 1913 - 352 pages
...it is not only folly but even more, it is suicide. In spite of the dictum of Emerson, that " If any single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts and there abide, the large world will come round to him," the fact is, that if any man will constantly and persistently...
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Washington University Studies, Volume 9

Washington University (Saint Louis, Mo.) - 1921 - 492 pages
...his Phi Beta Kappa Address from this. It is only the same thought in other words when he says: " ... if the single man plant himself indomitably on his...and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.""0 The sacredness of the individual soul was to them a moving principle. It is perhaps the failure...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Oscar W. Firkins - 1915 - 404 pages
...and honorable of the earth affirm it to be the crack of doom." Or that other far-resounding cry, " If the single man plant himself indomitably on his...there abide, the huge world will come round to him." Less than a year later came the Divinity School Address. Of this momentous but tranquil discourse,...
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Texas Review, Volume 2

1916 - 414 pages
...and heat and light are the receptacles of love and wisdom. Contrast with these something of Emerson : If the single man plant himself indomitably on his...world will come round to him. Patience — patience. Or: Or: The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men round to his opinion twenty years...
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Good Housekeeping, Volume 64

1916 - 970 pages
...determines whether the child shall become a good or a bad citizen of the community. Emerson says, " If a single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts and there abide, the large world will come round to him." I hope not to be accused of heresy if, for mothers and teachers,...
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The Chronicles of America Series, Volume 34

Allen Johnson - 1918 - 306 pages
...independence for himself and his countrymen, an exhortation of self -trust to the individual thinking man. "If the single man plant himself indomitably on his...there abide, the huge world will come round to him. " Such advice to cut loose from the moorings of the past was not unknown in Phi Beta Kappa orations,...
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