Which part of this excerpt from Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Self-Reliance" conveys that it is ideal for people to respect others’ opinions but to care only about their own?
What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
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The line: What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. -coveys that idea.
Explanation:
- Ralph Waldo is an eminent thinker who through his essay "Self- Reliance", talks about one should value his own thoughts.
- He says that respecting others opinion and interest is important but that must not be at the cost of one's own individuality.
- He also points out that people would try to impose their own ideas on us thinking that they know better than us in handling our own situations. But that is not possible.
- He wants us to value, recognise and support our own thoughts instead of simply giving into others ideas.
- Hence he conveys that it is ideal for people to respect others’ opinions but to care only about their own through the first line of the excerpt: What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think.
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