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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. That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him. No man yet knows what it is, nor can, till that person has
... See moreRalph Waldo Emerson • Self Reliance (Illustrated)
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Henry David Thoreau • Walden
Essays and Lectures: (Nature: Addresses and Lectures, Essays: First and Second Series, Representative Men, English Traits, and The Conduct of Life)
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His solution? Two words: Trust thyself. In the most famous passage from his essay, Emerson writes, “Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. Great men have always done so, and confided themselves childlike to the
... See moreAl Pittampalli • Persuadable: How Great Leaders Change Their Minds to Change the World
the words of Amos Bronson Alcott, printed in an 1841 edition of The Dial: “Individuals are sacred. The world, the state, the church, the school, all are felons whensoever they violate the sanctity of the private heart” (Amos Bronson Alcott, “Orphic Sayings,” The Dial 1, no. 1 [July 1840]: 85–98).
Lowry Pressly • The Right to Oblivion
As Emerson wrote in 1841, If our young men miscarry in their first enterprises, they lose all heart. If the young merchant fails, men say he is ruined. If the finest genius studies at one of our colleges, and is not installed in an office within one year afterwards in the cities or suburbs of Boston or New York, it seems to his friends and to
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