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" We want men and women who shall renovate life and our social state, but we see that most natures are insolvent, cannot satisfy their own wants, have an ambition out of all proportion to their practical force, and do lean and beg day and night continually. "
Select Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Page 88
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1907 - 245 pages
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American Literature

Robert Shafer - 1926 - 1410 pages
...and women who shall renovate life and our social state, but we see that most natures are insolvent, le away — forbidden things! parlor soldiers. We shun the rugged battle of fate, where strength is born. If our young men miscarry...
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Emerson's Essays and Poems: Selected and Edited with an Introd

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1926 - 412 pages
...and women who shall renovate life and our social state, but we see that most natures are insolvent, cannot satisfy their own wants, have an ambition out...not chosen, but society has chosen for us. We are parlor soldiers. We shun the rugged battle of fate, where strength is born. If our young men miscarry...
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A Book of American Literature

Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Edward Douglas Snyder - 1927 - 1288 pages
...and women who shall renovate life and our social state, but we see that most natures are insolvent, cannot satisfy their own wants, have an ambition out of all proportion to their practical force when they look out into the region of so and do lean and beg day and night absolute truth; then will...
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The Quarterly Journal of the University of North Dakota, Volume 7

University of North Dakota - 1917 - 414 pages
...and women who shall renovate life and our social state, but we see that most natures are insolvent ; cannot satisfy their own wants, have an ambition out of all proportion to their practical force, and so do learn and beg day and night continually. Our housekeeping is mendicant, out arts, our occupations,...
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Improvement Era, Volume 7, Issue 1

1904 - 510 pages
...and women who shall renovate life and our social state, but we see that most natures are insolvent —cannot satisfy their own wants, have an ambition...out of all proportion to their practical force, and so do lean and beg day and night continually." I say that nothing can bring peace to our young men...
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Liberty and the Great Libertarians: An Anthology on Liberty, a Hand-book of ...

Charles T. Sprading - 1913 - 550 pages
...and women who shall renovate life and our social state, but we see that most natures are insolvent, cannot satisfy their own wants, have an ambition out...the rugged battle of fate, where strength is born. Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force...
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The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: First Series. Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1979 - 434 pages
...and women who shall renovate life and our social state, but we see that most natures are insolvent, cannot satisfy their own wants, have an ambition out...not chosen, but society has chosen for us. We are parlor soldiers. We shun the rugged battle of fate, where strength is born. If our young men miscarry...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays and Lectures (LOA #15): Nature; Addresses, and ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1983 - 1196 pages
...and women who shall renovate life and our social state, but we see that most natures are insolvent, cannot satisfy their own wants, have an ambition out...our young men miscarry in their first enterprises, they lose all heart. If the young merchant fails, men say he is ruined. If the finest genius studies...
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From Emerson to King: Democracy, Race, and the Politics of Protest

Anita Haya Patterson - 1997 - 268 pages
...and women who shall renovate life and our social state, but we see that most natures are insolvent, cannot satisfy their own wants, have an ambition out...force, and do lean and beg day and night continually" (Essays, 274-275). Emerson's insistence on the viability of philosophical critique as revolutionary...
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The Good Life

Charles B. Guignon - 1999 - 350 pages
...and women who shall renovate life and our social state, but we see that most natures are insolvent, cannot satisfy their own wants, have an ambition out...not chosen, but society has chosen for us. We are parlor soldiers. We shun the rugged battle of fate, where strength is born. If our young men miscarry...
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