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Self-reliance and Other Essays

Name: Self-reliance and Other Essays
ISBN: 0486277909

Essayist, poet, and philosopher, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) propounded a transcendental idealism emphasizing self-reliance, self-culture, and individual expression. The six essays and one address included in this volume, selected from Essa

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“Good and bad are but names very readily transferred to this or that. The only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong is what is against it... We cannot spend the day in explanation.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson, amazon.com

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“If our young men miscarry in their first enterprise, they lose all heart. If the young merchant fails, men say he is ruined. If the finest genius studies at one of our colleges and is not installed in an office one year afterwards in the cities of Boston or New York, it seems to his friends and to h…”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson, amazon.com

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