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Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Note 167 — SELF-RELIANCE

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"What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted? Thrice is he arm'd that hath his quarrel just; And he but naked, though lock'd up in steel, Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted." Shakespeare, II. Henry VI., III. 2.

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