LITERATURE QUESTIONS
TRANSCENDENTALISM LITERATURE
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to wish to be like someone else denies your own potential
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someone else’s anger is respectable when they are careful to maintain their reputation
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we should be polite and restrained, because others’ vulnerability scares them
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people get angry only against those who are timid and easily attacked
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Detailed explanation-1: -If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. Better be unborn than untaught, for ignorance is the root of misfortune. It is poverty in a rich man to despise the poor and ignorance in a wise man to despise the ignorant.
Detailed explanation-2: -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; …
Detailed explanation-3: -Emerson posits that reliance upon institutionalized religion hinders the ability to grow mentally as an individual.
Detailed explanation-4: -This explains the title of his essay: ‘Self-Reliance’ is about relying on one’s own sense of oneself, and having confidence in one’s ideas and opinions. In a famous quotation, Emerson asserts: ‘In every work of genius we recognise our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. ‘