LITERATURE QUESTIONS
TRANSCENDENTALISM LITERATURE
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Emerson
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Thoreau
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Byron
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None of these.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Ralph Waldo Emerson quote about others from Self-Reliance : “What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think.”
Detailed explanation-2: -Emerson writes, “What I must do, is all that concerns me, not what the people think.” (1146) It is important to be as independent as possible in our beliefs. Otherwise, we do not know who we are.
Detailed explanation-3: -“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
Detailed explanation-4: -What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness.
Detailed explanation-5: -Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs. Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness.