
Ep 43 - Self-Reliance (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Hardcore Literature
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How Many People Do You Wish to Say That To?
I appeal from your customs. I must be myself. If you can love me for what i am, we shall be the happier. If you cannot, i will still seek to deserve that you should. It is alike your interest and mine and all men's, however long we have dwelt in lies, to live in truth. How many people are there in your life whom you would like to say that to? And i cannot help but appreciate the poetry, the rendering of the syntax r when he says, i will so trust that what is deep is holy before the sun and moon,. whatever inly rejoices me and the heart appoints.
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