 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
 | 1994 - 1211 pages
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 | Donald E. Pease - 1994 - 356 pages
...flashes across" our minds, because otherwise those thoughts will be taken away from us, since "tomorrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely...to take with shame our own opinion from another." ln fact, according to Emerson, "ln every work of genius, we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they... | |
 | Daniel Hoffman - 1994 - 396 pages
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 | Gail Levin - 1995 - 714 pages
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 | Alfred Hornung - 1996 - 388 pages
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 | Craig Hickman, Craig Bott, Marlon Berrett, Brad Angus - 1996 - 240 pages
...us in his essay "Self-Reliance," "There is a time in every man's [woman's] education when he [she] arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; the he [she] must take himself [herself] for better, for worse, as his [her] portion; that though the... | |
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 | Thomas Frank - 1997 - 340 pages
...any other document of the decade." chapter four THREE REBELS: ADVERTISING NARRATIVES OF THE SIXTIES 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. Insist on yourself. Never imitate. . . . Society everywhere is in a conspiracy... | |
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