butterfly的复数Emerson’s Self-Reliance Name KEY
Active Reading
Directions: Read the highlighted paragraphs on this page. After each paragraph, decide the main idea. Then, using the supporting detail ntences from each paragraph, paraphra your support. Don‟t for get to u Transcendental ideas as your support and focus!
“There is a time in every man‟s education…when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance1; that imitation is suicide2; that he must take himlf for better, for wor, as is his portion3; that though the univer is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil4 bestowed on that plot of ground which is given him to till…”
Main idea: You have to be true to who you really are, not pretend to be some thing you‟re not. Supporting Detail Paraphra:后备箱英文>carbonblack
1: It’s stupid to want what others have; why should we be jealous of others?
2:Pretending to be someone el only kills our individuality.
3. We should be glad with what we’ve been given and not wish we had more or were different..
4. The only profit we’re going to gain is going to be through our own hard work. There are no free handouts in life!
“Trust thylf: Every heart vibrates to that iron string1. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you2; the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. Great men have always done so, and confided themlves childlike to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the absolutely trustworthy was ated at their heart3, working through their hands, predominating in all their being…”
Main idea: Trust yourlf and your intuition.
Supporting Detail Paraphra:
1.Believe in yourlf and your intuition; go with your gut feeling.
2.Listen for and be happy with your calling from God.
3.Great men throughout history have trusted their hearts to God, knowing that he is leading them like an
adult does a child who can’t possibly understand.
“Whoso must be a man must be a nonconformist1. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness2. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind3. Absolve you to yourlf, and you shall have the suffrage of the world.”
Main idea: Don‟t follow the crowd or believe wha t they say. Do your own thing and discover your own truths!
Supporting Detail Paraphra:
1.If you want to stand on your own two feet as a man, and not follow like a child, you must NOT conform
to the standard.
2.Do n’t be afraid to ek the truth and a better way of doing things becau you’re afraid of being wrong.
If you want to be honorable, you should find through your own truths whether or not something is
actually the right thing to do.
a.Think: society wasn’t morally right at the time. This was an chance to say you disagreed with
society.
3.The only ideals you should hold true to are your own, lf-discovered beliefs. Don’t compromi your
ideals!
On my saying, “What have I to do with the sacredness of traditions, if I live wholly from within1?” my friend suggested –“But the impuls may be from below, not from above.” I replied, “They do not em to me to be such; but if I am the Devil‟s child, I will live then from the Devil2.” No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature3. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong what is against it…
willandgraceMain idea: Remember that your intuition is good becau it comes from God. No matter what others say about it, never falter in your faith.
Supporting Detail Paraphra:
布列瑟农歌词1.Don’t worry abo ut following external influences; just listen to your heart.
2.Continue to remain true to your heart even when others question you and your morals or call you names.
3.Never put your faith in something that goes against your heart and individual character.
“What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think1. This rule, equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may rve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness.It is harder becau you will always find tho who think they know what is your duty better than you know it2. It is easy in the world to live after the world‟s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own3; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of
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Main idea: It won‟t be easy to be yourlf; others will make you question yourlf.
Supporting Detail Paraphra:
1.Only worry about your job; ignore what others think abou t you becau they don’t matter.
2.People will constantly try to tell you that they know more than you and make you cond guess or doubt
yourlf.
3.It’s easier to follow what others think or to listen to your individuality when you’re all by yourlf and
no one is there to influence you.
4.But, if you’re capable of keeping true to who you are in the crowd, you will be a truly great person.
For nonconformity the world whips you with its displeasure1. And therefore a man must know how to estimate a sour face. The by-standers look askance on him in the public street or in the friend‟s parlor. If this aversion had its origin in contempt and resistance like his own he might well go home with a sad countenance; but the sour faces of the multitude, like their sweet faces, have no deep cau, but are put
on and off as the wind blows2and a newspaper directs…
Main idea: Others will look down on you for not fitting in, but you shouldn‟t take it personally. Supporting Detail Paraphra:
1.Others will pick on you and treat you horribly becau you don’t fit in.
2.However, they aren’t looking down on you for any real reason. They are fickle and will change their
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minds quickly, so you shouldn’t take it too much to heart.
what about love“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds1, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do2. He may as well concern himlf with
his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and tomorrow speak what tomorro w thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said today.3–…Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood‟ – Is it so bad then to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wi spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood4….”
Main idea: Don‟t be scared to be different and misunderstood – all the greatest people in history wer
e different and misunderstood.
Supporting Detail Paraphra:
1.Small minds and thinkers are scared to stray away from consistency; the unknown of “changes” often
scares people into doing the same thing over and over again.
gangbang2.We must not be afraid to change if we want to grow and become great. Even a person of great potential
would become nothing if he let fear keep him from changing.
3.S peak your mind and stand up for tho thoughts! Commit to what you’re saying and what you think.
But don’t be afraid to change your mind tomorrow if you feel the re’s a “new truth.”Don’t be afraid to contradict yourlf or look stupid for what you strongly stuck up for yesterday.
a. WE ALL HAVE THE RIGHT TO CHANGE OUR MINDS!
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4.The are all great men who were misunderstood in their lives – so, if you are misunderstoo d, you’re in
good company. If you’re great it’s probably becau you’re thinking ahead of your time and ahead of the game –bringing something new to the world we haven’t en yet. You’re BOUND to be
misunderstood if you speak of something new like this.
