ON SELF-RELIANCE PART 3

"Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind." Emerson believes that we're all good. Emerson says that he isn't against charity but he's against people giving to charity for the sole purpose of looking good to other people. I think that if someone really cared about something then they would genuinely try to improve it not for vanity but because it's important to them. Emerson said that its hard to be yourself while in a room full of people telling you to be someone else. For nonconformity the world whips you with its displeasure." Most people don't pay close attention. We care more about the things right in front of us that we don't notice or care about what's happening around us. He also mentioned that we don't speak our minds as often as we should. We need to speak in order to feel heard and understood.

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