A Sister Considers Confidence

A Sister Considers Confidence 

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A man is to carry himself in the presence of all opposition.

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Here is the test of wisdom; Wisdom is not finally tested in schools.

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What do you do when everybody is against you and you’re stranded alone?

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The mass, of course, can never become few, but certain individual members of the mass can make the transformation.

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I am larger, better than I thought; I did not know I held so much goodness.

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A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages.

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Once upon a time, each Amercican's objective was to become an invidivdual.

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I know they suffice for those who belong to them.

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Yet such as these even are commonly esteemed good citizens.

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1 Ralph Waldo Emerson, "The Foul Reign of Emerson"
3 Walt Whitman, "Song of the Open Road"
5 Louis Rene Beres, "The Few, The Proud, The Individuals"
6 Walt Whitman, "Song of the Open Road"
8 Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self-Reliance"
9 Louis Rene Beres, "The Few, The Proud, The Individuals"
10 Walt Whitman, "Song of the Open Road"
11 Henry David Thoreau, "Civil Disobedience"