Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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American Scholar_ he says:
"In self-trust all the virtues are comprehended." In the essay on _Greatness_: "Self-respect is the early form in which greatness appears.... Stick to your own.... Follow the path your genius traces like the galaxy of heaven for you to walk in." Carlyle says: "The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself." ] [Footnote 157: Chaos ([Greek: Chaos]), the confused, unorganized condition in which the world was supposed to have existed before it was reduced to harmony and order; hence, utter confusion and disorder.] [Footnote 158: These, _i.e._, children, babes, and brutes.] [Footnote 159: Four or five. Supply the noun.] [Footnote 160: Nonchalance, a French word meaning _indifference_, _coolness_.] [Footnote 161: Pit in the playhouse, formerly, the seats on the floor below the level of the stage. These cheap seats were occupied by a class who did not hesitate to express their opinions of the |
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