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Emerson's Self-Reliance

"Who so should be a man is a non-conformist." Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote this great aphorism in his story Self-Reliance. In Self-Reliance, Emerson writes about relying on yourself to make it through life in society and not becoming too enveloped in society. Another aphorism that I like is, "The sky is less grand when it shuts down over less worth in the population." This aphorism is taken from Henry David Thoreau's Walden. In this piece, Thoreau writes about his experience of living in the woods.
When Emerson wrote "who so should be a man is a non-conformist," he was saying that if a man tries to become like the things around him, he is less of a man. In many ways I agree with him. ...

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saying, "the sky is less grand when it shuts down over less worth in the population." They are both saying that if something happened and nobody was around would it have the same affect as it would if many people saw it. Thoreau was saying that the sunset is not as beautiful when only a few people see it. I think that a person would have to question things like that, because nobody really knows.
In conclusion, I agree with many of the writers of the transcendentalist period. They believed that you don't need anything except water, clothing, and shelter to live life, which is true. If people lived life simply, as Emerson and Thoreau suggest, the world would be a better place. The only thing that I disagree with is that I believe that a person also needs something to eat with his or her water. ...

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