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KING PELLINORE’S LITERARY MAGAZINE

Self-Reliance
by Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Ne te quaesiveris extra."

"Man is his own star; and the soul that can
Render an honest and a perfect man,
Commands all light, all influence, all fate;
Nothing to him falls early or too late.
Our acts our angels are, or good or ill,
Our fatal shadows that walk by us still."

Epilogue to Beaumont and Fletcher's Honest Man's Fortune

Cast the bantling on the rocks,
Suckle him with the she-wolf's teat;
Wintered with the hawk and fox,
Power and speed be hands and feet.

I read the other day some verses written by an
eminent painter which were original and not
conventional. The soul always hears an
admonition in such lines, let the subject be what
it may. The sentiment they instil is of more value than any
thought they may contain. To believe your own thought, to
believe that what is true for you in your private heart is
true for all men, — that is genius. Speak your latent
conviction, and it shall be the universal sense; for the
inmost in due time becomes the outmost,—— and our first
thought is rendered back to us by the trumpets of the Last
Judgment. Familiar as the voice of the mind is to each,
the highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato, and Milton

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