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Self-Reliance

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Form
Form Essay
Year
Year 1841
Pages
Pages 20

An essayist tells you to trust your own thought against all custom and consistency, because envy is ignorance, imitation is suicide, and no law is sacred but your own nature.

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
Self-Reliance, Ralph Waldo Emerson

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