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Self-Reliance
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Envy is ignorance; imitation is suicide.Ralph Waldo EmersonSource note: Ralph Waldo Emersonverified
God will not have his work made manifest by cowards.Ralph Waldo EmersonSource note: Ralph Waldo Emersonverified
It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.Ralph Waldo EmersonSource note: Ralph Waldo Emersonverified
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.Ralph Waldo EmersonSource note: Ralph Waldo Emersonverified
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.Ralph Waldo EmersonSource note: Ralph Waldo Emersonverified
These roses under my window make no reference to former roses or to better ones; they exist with God to-day.Ralph Waldo EmersonSource note: Ralph Waldo Emersonverified
To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men — that is genius.Ralph Waldo EmersonSource note: Ralph Waldo Emersonverified
Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.Ralph Waldo EmersonSource note: Ralph Waldo Emersonverified
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.Ralph Waldo EmersonSource note: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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