ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -“The sweetest music is not in the oratorio, but in the human voice when it speaks from its instant life tones of tenderness, truth, or courage.” “The sweetest music is not in the oratorio, but in the human voice when it speaks from its instant life tones of tenderness, truth, or courage.”

Detailed explanation-2: -“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”

Detailed explanation-3: -Ralph Waldo Emerson once wrote: “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.” His point was that only small-minded men refused to rethink their prior beliefs. Or, put another way, he thought that today’s intuition could trump yesterday’s conclusions.

Detailed explanation-4: -Individualism “It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”

Detailed explanation-5: -Ralph Waldo Emerson-To laugh often and much; to win respect; to earn appreciation; to find the beauty in others; to leave the world better; one life has breathed easier because you lived here.