The American Scholar: Self-reliance. CompensationPublished also in the Eclectic English classics in 1911, with the same introduction and additional notes ascribed to Orren Henry Smith. |
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... friendship which resulted in their famous correspondence . In the winter of 1833-34 he returned to the United States and began his career as a lecturer . At this period of his life he lived with Dr. Ripley in the " Old Manse ...
... friendship which resulted in their famous correspondence . In the winter of 1833-34 he returned to the United States and began his career as a lecturer . At this period of his life he lived with Dr. Ripley in the " Old Manse ...
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... Friendship , " " Prudence , " " Heroism , " " The Over- Soul , " " Circles , " " Intellect , " " Art , " " The Young American . " The last named was not published till 1844 , but it now forms part of the " First Series of Essays . " In ...
... Friendship , " " Prudence , " " Heroism , " " The Over- Soul , " " Circles , " " Intellect , " " Art , " " The Young American . " The last named was not published till 1844 , but it now forms part of the " First Series of Essays . " In ...
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... friends who had paid for it by voluntary subscriptions . In December , 1874 , he edited " Parnassus , " a collection of poems by British and American authors . In the same year " Letters and Social Aims " appeared , containing the ...
... friends who had paid for it by voluntary subscriptions . In December , 1874 , he edited " Parnassus , " a collection of poems by British and American authors . In the same year " Letters and Social Aims " appeared , containing the ...
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... friends , so long will he be envied . No matter what his mental turmoil may be , no matter though the poorest beggar in the street have greater peace of mind , to the world at large he appears happy and successful , and men continue to ...
... friends , so long will he be envied . No matter what his mental turmoil may be , no matter though the poorest beggar in the street have greater peace of mind , to the world at large he appears happy and successful , and men continue to ...
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... friend and relative , profession and party , town and country , nation and world , must also soar and sing . Of course , he who has put forth his total strength in fit actions , has the richest return of wisdom . I will not shut myself ...
... friend and relative , profession and party , town and country , nation and world , must also soar and sing . Of course , he who has put forth his total strength in fit actions , has the richest return of wisdom . I will not shut myself ...
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Page 17 - Perhaps the time is already come when it ought to be, and will be, something else ; when the sluggard intellect of this continent will look from under its iron lids and fill the postponed expectation of the world with something better than the exertions of mechanical skill. Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close.
Page 44 - A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Page 21 - Instantly the book becomes noxious; the guide is a tyrant. The sluggish and perverted mind of the multitude, slow to open to the incursions of Reason, having once so opened, having once received this book, stands upon it and makes an outcry if it is disparaged. Colleges are built on it. Books are written on it by thinkers, not by Man Thinking; by men of talent, that is, who start wrong, who set out from accepted dogmas, not from their own sight of principles. Meek young men grow up in libraries believing...
Page 45 - 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 masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another.
Page 19 - The first in time and the first in importance of the influences upon the mind is that of nature. Every day, the sun ; and, after sunset, Night and her stars. Ever the winds blow ; ever the grass grows. Every day, men and women, conversing, beholding and beholden. The scholar is he of all men whom this spectacle most engages.
Page 76 - Chance, and shalt sit hereafter out of fear from her rotations. A political victory, a rise of rents, the recovery of your sick, or the return of your absent friend, or some other favorable event, raises your spirits, and you think good days are preparing for you. Do not believe it. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Page 28 - If it were only for a vocabulary, the scholar would be covetous of action. Life is our dictionary. Years are well spent in country labors; in town; in the insight into trades and manufactures; in frank intercourse with many men and women ; in science ; in art; to the one end of mastering in all their facts a language by which to illustrate and embody our perceptions. I learn immediately from any speaker how much he has already lived, through the poverty or the splendor of his speech.
Page 60 - Yet see what strong intellects dare not yet hear God himself, unless he speak the phraseology of I know not what David, or Jeremiah, or Paul. We shall not always set so great a price on a few texts, on a few lives.
Page 55 - It is always ancient virtue. We worship it to-day because it is not of today. We love it and pay it homage because it is not a trap for our love and homage, but is self-dependent, self-derived, and therefore of an old immaculate pedigree, even if shown in a young person.
Page 55 - The man must be so much that he must make all circumstances indifferent. Every true man is a cause, a country, and an age ; requires infinite spaces and numbers and time fully to accomplish his design; and posterity seem to follow his steps as a train of clients. A man Caesar is born, and for ages after we have a Roman Empire. Christ is born, and millions of minds so grow and...