Essay in Essays: First Series (1841); its argument that a person's highest duty is to trust their own conviction over inherited opinion is the single most anthologized piece of American nonfiction prose.
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1. Wikipedia: Self-Reliance
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"Self-Reliance" is an 1841 essay written by American transcendentalist philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson. It contains the most thorough statement of one of his recurrent themes: the need for each person to avoid conformity and false consistency, and follow their own instincts and ideas.
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