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The American Scholar: Self-reliance. Compensation - Page 45
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1893 - 108 pages
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Public Speaking for Business Men

William George Hoffman - 1923 - 312 pages
...good-humored inflexibility then most when the whole cry of voices is on the other side. Else tomorrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely...forced to take with shame our own opinion from another. which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do : nor does...
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The Story of Our Literature: An Interpretation of the American Spirit

John Louis Haney - 1923 - 484 pages
...and deserve the most careful study. In the former we come across such stimulating thoughts as these: There is a time in every man's education when he arrives...imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better or worse as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn...
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Representative English Essays

Warner Taylor - 1923 - 532 pages
...goodhumoured inflexibility, then most when the whole cry of voices is on the other side. Else to-morrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense, precisely...time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our opinion from another." Accepting the opinions of another and the tastes of another is very different...
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Essentials of Public Speaking

Warren Coutant Du Bois - 1926 - 294 pages
...goodhumored inflexibility then most when the whole cry of voices is on the other side. Else to-morrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely...forced to take with shame our own opinion from another. 4. Brief. The short speech has grown in popularity in the last few decades. It has always been desirable;...
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Century Readings for a Course in American Literature, Volume 1

Fred Lewis Pattee - 1926 - 1160 pages
...good-humored inflexibility then most when the whole cry of 10 voices is on the other side. Else to-morrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely...and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinas ion from another. There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction...
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The Meaning of a Liberal Education

Everett Dean Martin - 1926 - 344 pages
...your rejection of popular standards is a rejection of all standards. But there is a Jk time in each man's education when he arrives at the conviction...imitation is suicide, that he must take himself for better or for worse. All men preen themselves on the improvement of society and no man improves. Society never...
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New England in the Republic, 1776-1850

James Truslow Adams - 1926 - 482 pages
...self-development and self-reliance as we find in the essay by that title rang like trumpet calls to a new life. "There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that imitation is suicide" ; "What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think"; "My life...
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The History of New England ...: New England in the Republic, 1776-1850

James Truslow Adams - 1926 - 484 pages
...self-development and self-reliance as we find in the essay by that title rang like trumpet calls to a new life. "There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that imitation is suicide" ; "What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think"; "My life...
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Selections from the Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1926 - 398 pages
...is on the other side. Else to-morrow a stranger w say with masterly good sense precisely what we ha thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to ta with shame our own opinion from another. There is a time in every man's education when he arriv...
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Technical Writing of Farm and Home

Frederick William Beckman, Harry Russell O'Brien, Blair Converse - 1927 - 438 pages
...across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Else tomorrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely...be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another.—Emerson. WHEN it was said in the preceding chapter that there is a feature article subject...
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