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Self-Reliance Response

Self-Reliance Response


1. To start I would have to bring up in the first page where he is talking about how we reject our own thoughts. In this part he says, "Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. Great works of art have no more affecting lesson for us than this." "Else to-morrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another." What he is saying is that too many times we second guess ourselves leading to just thinking that we are wrong, only to later see our thoughts played out by others and then we are stuck thinking what if I would have acted on that thought.

2. Second, he talks about ruler's effects on the world, "The world has been instructed by its kings, who have so magnetized the eyes of nations. It......


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