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Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
Nothing carries final authority except your own mind's integrity. If you can clear yourself in your own judgment, the speaker says, the world's approval will follow. It's a call to trust your inner verdict first and let outside opinion come second.
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