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.... for guidance, rather than to worshipping kings and worrying about what society thinks. People should strive to find their own sense of self-worth rather than bolstering the self-esteem of others and agreeing to something simply because it has always been done: The joyful loyalty with which men have everywhere suffered the king, the noble, or the great proprietor...was the hieroglyphic by which they obscurely signified their consciousness of their own right and comeliness, the right of every man. Instead, every human being should believe he (or she) is a kind of king: To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, that is genius.

On one hand, to read Emersons essay Self-Reliance is profoundly inspiring, in that he stresses the inherent worth, insight, creativity and potential genius within every individual: 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

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