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How Emerson Can Help You Become a Stoic Nonconformist

The Art of Manliness

CHAPTER

Mary Moody Emerson: A Work in Progress

Aunt Mary Moody Emerson was a strict Calvinist and religious fanatic. She used to travel in a burial shroud so she could go right to her maker when she died. "She lived fearlessly," he writes of his aunt, who pushed him to confront the things that scared him most. He needed to find his own courage and find the ways, his own path to self empowerment,. And this was an ongoing process.

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