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  author = {Literature Atlas},
  title = {Self-Reliance},
  year = {2026},
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  note = {Accessed August 30, 2026}
}

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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1841 1

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1. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays: First Series (1841)

Robert D. Richardson, Emerson: The Mind on Fire (1995)

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Encyclopaedia Britannica

Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.Associated With: TranscendentalismView the Source

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