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    <body><![CDATA[Emerson's a genius. I'm annotating this book as I read it and I'm constantly inspired. It's beautiful, and so honest. My favorite essay so far is probably Compensation. Emerson states everything so eloquently, so completely, it's impossible to deny the absolute truths he expresses. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I would like to preface this review by saying that the body of the review has a lot &quot;spiritual&quot; talk and some people may find my words trite and very syrupy about my inner thoughts on life. So if you are feeling cynical right now, I think you will have a good chuckle.  And, if you are like...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44275074">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I've read most of these, on and off, throughout middle school and high school. Even as a kid I was always of a mind for self-improvement, and with essays on topics such as &quot;Self-Reliance&quot; &quot;Friendship&quot; and &quot;Experience&quot; how could I resist the idea that maybe some great th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11627541">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I love Emerson!! &quot;To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is your greatest accomplishment.&quot; Enough said. ;-)]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Emerson, oh so wise:<br/><br/>A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us. <br/><br/>A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.<br/><br/>A great man is always willing to be little.<br/><br/>A man is what he thinks about all day long. <br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27206233">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Top essayist of his time. Far from most]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The actual book I am reading was published in 1934 and not coming up on GoodReads' search engine...however, I am slogging through this stuff...the first essay is titled &quot;History&quot; and is pretty intellectual and abstract. &quot;Self-Reliance&quot; is a little less obtuse, but it still is a s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44752687">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I've read Self-Reliance, The American Scholar, The Divinity School Address and part of Nature.  I'm somewhat ashamed that I'm reading them for the first time here at the age of forty.  Yet, I don't know how much of it I would have appreciated at a younger age.  In my literature class, I find the you...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47199254">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[My dad gave me a copy of his leather bound collection of Emerson essays when I was in my early 20s. The book is probably a hundred years old, with beautiful rice paper. I keep it locked up in special place so it'll last for my daughter. It kept me company the summer of 1989 when I rode my moped in t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25485749">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm currently reading this with Eucalyptus, an iPhone application, that lets you &quot;page&quot; through books transcribed on Project Gutenberg.  So far I'm very satisfied with the app.  and Emerson too!  I've thought of him with a romantic haze since I was in high school.  We'll see if he measures...]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I constantly go back to this book when I need some inspiration. I think this is a good launching pad for those wanting to explore the power of their mind and the universal truth.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[If you haven't read one of the following, you aren't fit to be an American.<br/><br/>&quot;The American Scholar&quot;<br/>&quot;Divinity School Address&quot;<br/>&quot;Nature&quot;<br/>&quot;Self-Reliance&quot;<br/><br/>I'll stick to that.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Found an old copy at the lovely Strand in NYC last month. I've been carrying it with me since and I'm sure I will go abck to it consistantly once i read through them all. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Such a brave, brave book...Emerson never fails to raise my thoughts to the highest of ideas.  His passion is infectious.  Mandatory reading for all Americans.]]></body>
    
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