Self-Reliance summary and quotes

Self-Reliance quotes

Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.

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; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.

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