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Affected of course I am by the loss of a friend as I think there will never be again , such as I can fearlessly say there never was before . But I stand in no need of medicine . I can find my own consolation , and it consists chiefly in ...
Affected of course I am by the loss of a friend as I think there will never be again , such as I can fearlessly say there never was before . But I stand in no need of medicine . I can find my own consolation , and it consists chiefly in ...
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Insist on yourself ; never imitate . Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation ; but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half possession .
Insist on yourself ; never imitate . Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation ; but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half possession .
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There have been men with deeper insight ; but , one would say , never a man with such abundance of thoughts ; he is never dull , never insincere , and has the genius to make the reader care for all that he cares for .
There have been men with deeper insight ; but , one would say , never a man with such abundance of thoughts ; he is never dull , never insincere , and has the genius to make the reader care for all that he cares for .
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Contents
JOHN ERSKINE | 1 |
WILLIAM KINGDON CLIFFORD | 14 |
WILLIAM JAMES | 37 |
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| Title | Gateway to the Great Books: Philosophical essays Volume 10 of Gateway to the Great Books, Robert Maynard Hutchins |
| Editors | Robert Maynard Hutchins, Mortimer Jerome Adler |
| Publisher | Encyclopędia Britannica, 1963 |
| Length | 580 pages |
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