{"product_id":"self-reliance-by-ralph-waldo-emerson","title":"Self Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson","description":"\u003cp\u003eSelf-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson. \"Self-Reliance\" is an 1841 essay written by American transcendentalist philosopher and essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson. It contains the most thorough statement of one of Emerson's recurrent themes: the need for each individual to avoid conformity and false consistency, and follow their own instincts and ideas. It is the source of one of Emerson's most famous quotations: \"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.\" This essay is an analysis into the nature of the \"aboriginal self on which a universal reliance may be grounded.\" \"Man is his own star; and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man, Commands all light, all influence, all fate; Nothing to him falls early or too late. Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Trailhead Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44214332817588,"sku":"9780308102040","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0632\/2746\/1812\/files\/27C2C489-2198-48F9-BBD7-35CC12C5DD9F.jpg?v=1777608553","url":"https:\/\/trailheadbooks.com\/products\/self-reliance-by-ralph-waldo-emerson","provider":"Trailhead Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}