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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays: First and Second Series: A Library of America Paperback Classic | 
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#currentlyreading My favorite student (mentioned previously) brought this 1926 edition to me last week and said she wanted me to read it so we could discuss. I‘ve read Emerson before, but I‘m rereading and refreshing now. It has some delightful annotations from her and previous owners. “Self-Reliance” seems to be her favorite.
“At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles. Friend, client, child, sickness, fear, want, charity, all knock at once at thy closet door and say,—'Come out unto us.' But keep thy state; come not into their confusion. The power men possess to annoy me I give them by a weak curiosity. No man can come near me but through my act.”
A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal, that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off, and may deal with him with the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another.
A leather bound antique miniature featuring essays on Self-Reliance, Love, and Friendship. #emerson #essays #ralphwaldoemerson #selfreliance #love #friendship #tinyreads #tinybooks #miniaturebooks #antiquebooks #vintagebooks
Soaking in some morning wisdom beautifully captured by one of the greats.
