 Great works of art have no more affecting lesson for us than this. They teach us to abide by our spontaneous impression with good-humored inflexibility then most when the whole cry of voices is on the other side. Else to-morrow a stranger will say with...  The American Scholar: Self-reliance. Compensation - Page 45by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1893 - 108 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Dorrie Weiss - 2001 - 680 pages
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 | David Wittenberg - 2002 - 300 pages
...truly self-reliant opinion (£, 278); and he warns that by failing to abide by our own impressions we "shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another" (£, 259). Moreover, the threat of social obligations or debts is directly absorbed into the figure... | |
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 | David LaRocca - 2003 - 122 pages
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 | Garry Wills - 2002 - 644 pages
...interested in, but discovery of truth (the process). Strike out on your own, he says, or "tomorrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely...to take with shame our own opinion from another." Nixon has this self -improving mania: the very choice of a framework for his book reflects it. As with... | |
 | Brenda Sharp - 2002 - 0 pages
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 | Richard J. Ward - 2002 - 562 pages
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 | M. Scott Peck - 2002 - 328 pages
...discipline and love gave me the eyes to see grace Introduction to the 25th Anniversary Edition Tomorrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time. — Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self Reliance" The most common response I have received to The Road Less... | |
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