Write any 10 ideas or points that you find most interesting in the assay "Self-Relaince" ?Ralph Walso Emerson's "Self-Reliance"

Considered by many to be the definitive statement of Ralph
Waldo Emerson's concept of individualism, as well as a magnificient example of his
beautiful prose and introspective thought.  Here are some points that are considered
classic examples of Emerson's Transcendental
thoughts;

1. Envy is
   ignorance.


2. Imitation is
   suicide


3. A man is relieved and gay
   [happy] when he has put his heart into his work and done his
   best


4. Trust thyself:  Every heart
   vibrates to that iron
   string.


5. Society everywhere is in
   conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its
   members.


6. Speak what you think now in
   hard words, and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it
   contradict everything you said
   today


7. Virtues are, in the popular
   estimate, rather the exception than the
   rule


8. What I must do is all that
   concerns me, not what the people
   think


9. 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 perfect
   sweetness the independence of
   solitude.


10. To be great is to be
    misunderstood

Clearly, the theme of
Emerson's Self-Reliance is that every person must be a thinking
individual and a non-conformist, unafraid to speak the truth without fear of the
judgement of "society" and the opinions of others.  People must be stalwart in living
according to the higher principles of life.  As Emerson points out, great men are always
misunderstood; he cites as examples Pythagoras, Socrates, Jesus, Luther, Copernicus,
Galileo, and Newton.  Indeed, modern man would do well to heed the words of Ralph Waldo
Emerson, and to live by his principles.