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This excerpt from "Self Reliance" talks about the importance of being an individual. It states that that a true great man is a man that thinks for himself. "What I must do is all that concerns me , not what people think"

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simple minded people don't understand greatness
and being misunderstood isn't bad

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I feel as though this is about the idea of happiness and how much of a choice it truly is. Understanding that people become caught up in the pursuit and idea of happiness. Rather you should be chasing peace within yourself without the emotion occurring due to events or moments but instead your own willingness. Your peace will come when you learn to make that choice and try to avoid things that go against your morals.
There were 2 aphorisms that stood out to me:
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.

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I think what they were stating was that man learns later on in wisdom, that the wants to posses what others have is ignorance to life. He will slowly drive himself mad if he wishes to follow the ways of life. Man must realize that he if a piece to a puzzle of the universe, and he must accept who he is within it. Man does not know the power they hold until they present it with the knowledge in how to use it. In a more simplistic way, we hold the power to ourself. It our choice whether we choose to use it with wisdom or with ignorance.

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The main idea is that lots of people are misunderstood. Being misunderstood is not a bad thing because a lot of the greatest people in history were looked at as different and unique but still came out to be greatly succesful.

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Emerson presents a recurring theme of self-reliance, stating that you are born and live to conform in this society; that society loves not individual persons and their talents, but custom and tradition.  In a world where you are expected to exchange your freedoms and culture for wealth and success, self-reliance and living by your own means is the only way to fight against the norm of conformity.

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society has conspiracy against the manhood of  everyone.
society is a join-stock company. we should agree to someone's  liberty and culture.
the virtue in most request is "conformity". self reliance is "aversion". it loves not realities and creators, but names and custom.

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In this excerpt, Emerson says that noting is more sacred than one's integrity

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I think this paragraph is trying to say that fortune and wealth and all other good things arise in your life at random, and just as random they come they leave. never expect only goodness in life. The only lasting, pure happiness you can get is when you acheive a higher, personal state of mind

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I think that this means that one cannot find happiness or peace by spinning a wheel of chance and praying for the best outcome. Instead they must stand upon their own two feet and force their own path through the boundaries of time, carve their own destiny into the walls of fate, find their own happiness in a world full of potential, and to continue moving forward, no matter the trials that may stand in their way.

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being misunderstood can lead to greatness

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what both of them said.

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what i think it mean is people question differences and ig focus on self reliance because it’s important.

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I think that the main idea of this excerpt is that there is only one "you" in this world and that you shouldn't let peoples opinions of you affect your abilities.

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This excerpt talks about how conformists are bad and how nonconformists are good, and that nothing man-made is sacred, including laws. nothing is really good or bad, its just how we see things.

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What he's talking about is how what he wants to do in life is not what people want him to do. He doesn't want to work in a job where he is given orders, he wants to give orders to himself. It's hard to work with someone who believes they know what's best for you when obviously you know yourself better than anyone.

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In this section the writer is asking who a man is and how must he know if he is good. Does a law dictate whether he is a man, or is it nature that is our law and that holds our rights? He is saying that he has no laws or rights that hold him down, only what he views as right or wrong.

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to be great is to be misunderstood

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What this text is saying is to trust thyself, to follow your heart and your intuition. Not always listening to what is supposed to be done or what is thought to be right, but to listen to yourself and let your heart to decide your destiny and to let it lead you the right way.

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I think the main idea of this is to not care about others opinions but focus more on your self and what you know is good for you. An aphorism in this is "It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with the perfect sweetness the independence of solitude..."