Self-reliance Emerson

1. To believe your own thoughts, to believe that what's true for you in your private heart is true for all man;

2. Speak your latent conviction, it shall be the universal sense;

3. A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lusters of the firmaments of bards and sages;

4. In every work of genius we recognize our rejected thoughts;

5. They come back to us with a certain alienated majesty;

6. Great works of art have no more affecting lessons than this;

7. His must take himself for better for worse as his portion;

8. The power which resides in him is new in nature;

9. A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart on his work and done his best;

10. In the attempt, his genius deserts him;

11. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connnection between events.

12. Great men have always done so, confided themselves childlike to the genius of their age, betraying the perception that the absolutely trustworthy was seated at their hearts, working through their hands and prodominating in all their being.

13. Their mind being whole, their eye is as yet unconquered, and when you look in their face, you're disconcerted.

14. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

15. Good and bad are but their names readily transferable to that or this, the only right is what is after ny constitution, the only wrong is what is against.

16. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world.

17. If malice and vanity wear the coat of philanthropy, shall that pass?

18. For nonconformity, the world whips you with its displeasure.

19. The eyes of others have no other data for computing your orbit than your past actions, and we are loath to disappoint them.
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