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Self-Reliance and Other Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson
8 minWisdom classic

Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. A guided tour of Emerson's exhilarating gospel of the self-reliant soul: nonconformity, the over-soul, and the divine sufficiency of the individual.

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