Self-Reliance
By Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Boston : James Munroe & Company, 1841Emerson's essay "Self-Reliance" was first published in his volume entitled Essays in 1841. This text has been prepared from the Hathi Trust copy of the first edition of that volume. The copy that this edition was scanned from is at the University of California. Page images are also sourced from the Hathi Trust edition of that copy.,

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "Self-Reliance" . Essays, James Munroe & Company, 1841 , 35-73 . Literature in Context: An Open Anthology. http://anthologydev.lib.virginia.edu/work/Emerson/emerson-self-reliance. Accessed: 2024-11-24T02:10:04.732Z