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How Emerson Can Help You Become a Stoic Nonconformist

The Art of Manliness

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Thoreau and Emerson's Non-Conformity

You make the case that both Thoreau and Emerson were examples of non-conformity in their own way. When he was a minister, his thoughts on God started to change. And then he gave this address to the Harvard Divinity School where he said some things that people thought were heretical. But even though he was denounced, he never replied to the criticism. He just let his word stand.

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