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Nature and Selected Essays
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Emerson's 1836 manifesto and the major essays, including Self-Reliance, Circles and Experience. The American gospel of individual conscience and inner authority.
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Three things you will actually use
- Trust thyself.
- Nature is the symbol of spirit.
- Every ending is a beginning.
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Read 'Circles'.
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