Version imprimable SELF-RELIANCE ( original text )

Ralph Waldoo Emerson

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 " The man must be so much that he must take 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 cleave to his genius that he is confounded with virtue and the possible of man. An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man; as, Monachism, of the Hermit Antony; the Reformation, of Luther; Quakerism, of Fox; Methodism, of Wesley; Abolition, of Clarkson. Scipio, Milton called " the height of Rome" ; and all histoty Resolves itself very easily into the biography of a few stout and earnest persons .
LET A MAN THEN KNOW HIS WORTH, AND KEEP THINGS UNDER HIS FEET. LET HIM NOT PEEP OR STEAL, OR SKULK UP AND DOWN WITH THE AIR OF CHARITY-BOY , A BASTARD, OR AN INTERLOPER IN THE WORLD WHICH EXIST FOR HIM. " 

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