I'M SELF RELIANT

• "Society is a joint company" Why would Emerson use this metaphor in this essay
• "Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind"

-I like that quote

• "Absolve you to yourself and you shall have the suffrage of the world"
• Why does Emerson brings religion into self reliance?
• Does Emerson think we should all speak the "rude truth" ?
• "But the truth is handsomer than the affectation of love"

-Realist quote I ever read

• What was the whole point of the "wicked dollar" example?
• Why does he compare life to bleeding and diet?

-I wonder if he thinks life is pointless

• "What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think"

- This quote relates to me

• "To be great is to be misunderstood"

- I see this everyday life with different people