Self Reliance and Other Essays
direction: in the chart record aphorisms from ech selection that strongly reflect transcendentalist ideas.
I have a table , the table have two parts in the first part say self reliance in the other part say nature
I have a table , the table have two parts in the first part say self reliance in the other part say nature
Here are a couple from Self-Reliance:
"Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself and you shall have the sufferage of the world."
"It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude after own own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude."
Nature:
"Standing on the bare ground, -- my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space, -- all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part and parcel of God."
"We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.
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