Emerson+Review


 * Ralph Waldo Emerson**

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=Writing=
 * What did you read first by him? When was it written? What was the main idea of that writing? **

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 * What did you read second by him? When was it written? What was the main idea of that writing? **

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 * What did you read third by him? When was it written? What was the main idea of that writing? **

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=**Main Ideas**=
 * Why was The American Scholar referred to as our "intellectual declaration of independence"? **

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 * What does he say it takes to be a great man? Where does he say that we can find truth? **

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 * What are two things that he says stop us from being self-reliant? **

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 * What does he say that self-trust and individuality lead to? **

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 * How does Emerson feel about tradition? **

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 * What is the relationship between man and nature? **

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=**Quotes:**=

"There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.
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"What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it"
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"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."
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"Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist."
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"For nonconformity the world whips you with its displeasure."
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"To Be Great is to Be Misunderstood."
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