Self-Reliance+discussion+board

Choose a quote. In a well-developed paragraph, comment on its meaning. If you feel comfortable, you agree/disagree with it and whether it has application in your personal life.

Notable quotes. Be sure to understand them.

"Speak your latent conviction, and it shall be the universal sense..." "We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents." "Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members." "Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind." "What I must do, is all that concerns me, not what the people think." "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statements and philosophies and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do." "The centuries are conspirators against the sanity and authority of the soul." "Life only avails, not the having lived. Power ceases in the instant of repose." "Just as men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect." "Travelling is a fool's paradise." "In the Will work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance, and shalt sit thereafter out of fear from her rotations... Nothing can bring you peace but yourself."