

“I know I am august,
I do not trouble my spirit to vindicate itself or be understood,
I see that the elementary laws never apologize,”
―
I do not trouble my spirit to vindicate itself or be understood,
I see that the elementary laws never apologize,”
―

“Live no longer to the expectation of these deceived and deceiving people with whom we converse.”
― Self-Reliance: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series
― Self-Reliance: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series

“The other terror that scares us from self-trust is our consistency; a reverence for our past act or word because the eyes of others have no data for computing our orbit than our past acts, and we are loath to disappoint them.”
― Self-Reliance: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series
― Self-Reliance: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series

“The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not
realities and creators, but names and customs.”
― Self-Reliance: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series
realities and creators, but names and customs.”
― Self-Reliance: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series
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