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On Self-Reliance
“Trust thyself,” Emerson wrote. “Nothing can bring you peace but yourself,” he stated. “With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do… A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines,” he famously exclaimed.
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The Civil War was devastating. Was is our linking verb.
U missed the “it” in the middle of because and was