Meaning of “One world is aware and by far the…”

Self-Reliance; Emerson gives the imperative while arguing for originality, self-trust, and resistance to imitation rather than dependence on another person’s model.

Song of Myself, section 21 in the 1882 Leaves of Grass text, printed page 45 (Wikisource scan page 51). The line opens Whitman’s section joining bodily and spiritual experience; this locator is specific to the represented 1882 textual state.

At the Back of the North Wind; Project Gutenberg #225. Spoken by the fictional child Diamond to North Wind, so the page preserves speaker and fantasy context rather than presenting it as direct memoir.

Stray Birds, aphorism 28, Project Gutenberg #6524, translated from Bengali by Tagore himself. ‘O BEAUTY, find thyself in love, not in the flattery of thy mirror’ is a compact personified poetic aphorism placed between numbered sayings 27 and 29. It should not be flattened into a literal rule about appearance, self-worth or relationships.

Elements of Morals, Chapter XIV, section 165, printed page 296, Caroline Rollin Corson’s 1884 English translation, Project Gutenberg #37016. “Remember that thou art a man and do not degrade thyself: this is self-respect” appears in the same paragraph as Janet’s paired reminder against vain pride, making self-respect and humility complementary parts of his moral argument rather than generic affirmation copy.

Song of Myself, 1882 text; the line belongs to Whitman’s intentionally expansive, bodily-spiritual poetic voice and should be read as poetry rather than literal theological doctrine.