ON SELF-RELIANCE 5

"For nonconformity the world whips you with displeasure. And therefore a man must know how to estimate a sour face." Emerson is saying that the world has beat so many people down that they no longer need to face "sour face". The world throws s many things your way some good and some bad but people no longer need to fake a reaction because it's all real. " If we cannot at once rise to the sanctity of obedience and faith, let us at least resist our temptations..." Emerson is trying to say that if we can't be holy, obedient and faithful then we can at least resist all the bad stuff it might be pushing us to. " Society is a wave. The wave does not move onward, but the water of which it is compressed does not. "

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