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23 Cards in this Set
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What work mentioned this quote, "Trust thyself: every hart vibrates to that iron string?"
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Self-Reliance
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What work mentioned this quote, "Their flag to April's breeze unfurled?"
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Concord Hymn
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What work mentioned this quote, "Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams?"
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The Problem
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What work mentioned this quote, "Give all to love; obey thy heart."
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Give All to Love
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What work mentioned this quote, "On he flew among the black pines,...,The fiend in his own shape is less hideous than when he rages in the breast of man?"
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Young Goodman Brown
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What work mentioned this quote, "I would prefer not to?"
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Bartleby, the Scrivener
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What work mentioned this quote, "Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them"
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Civil Disobedience
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Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant! Let the dead Past bury its dead! Act, - act in the living Present! Heart within, and God o'erhead!" |
A Psalm of Life
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"Blessed be God! for he created Death!" The mourners said, "and Death is rest and peace;" Then added, in the certainty of faith, "And giveth Life that nevermore shall cease." |
The Jewish Cemetery at Newport
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"Shoot, if you must, this old gray head, But spare your country's flag," she said. |
Barbara Frietchie
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What work mentioned this quote,
"The longest way must have its close - the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning." |
Uncle Tom's Cabin
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What quote mentioned this work,"I did not, when a slave, understand the deep meaning of those rude and apparently incoherent songs. I was myself within the circle; so that I neither saw nor heard as those without might see and hear"
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
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What work mentioned this quote,
At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed. |
What to the Slave is the Fourth of July
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“Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you. You must travel it by yourself. It is not far. It is within reach. Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know. Perhaps it is everywhere - on water and land.” |
Preface to the 1855 Edition of Leaves of Grass
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what work mentioned this quote,
I celebrate myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. I loafe and invite my Soul, I lean and loafe at my ease . . . . observing a spear of summer grass. |
Song of Myself
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What work mentioned this quote,
I have a lurking suspicion that Leonidas W. Smiley is a myth; that my friend never knew such a personage; and that he only conjectured that, if I asked old Wheeler about him, it would remind him of his infamous Jim Smiley, and he would go to work and bore me nearly to death with some infernal reminiscence of him as long and tedious as it should be useless to me. If that was the design, it certainly succeeded |
The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
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What work mentioned this quote,
"She had visions, so startling that she half repudiated them as indelicate, of coarse masculine belongings strewn about in endless litter; of dust and disorder arising necessarily from a coarse masculine presence in the midst of all this delicate harmony |
A New England Nun
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“...He imparted this information with such solemn earnestness, and with such an air of confidential mystery, I felt somewhat interested.” |
The Goophered Grapevine
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What work mentioned this quote,
"No, you didn't expect him to get killed," Mrs. Gearson repeated, in a voice which was startlingly like George's again. "You just expected him to kill some one else, some of those foreigners, that weren't there because they had any say about it, but because they had to be there, poor wretches--conscripts, or whatever they call 'em. You thought it would be all right for my George, your George, to kill the sons of those miserable mothers and the husbands of those girls that you would never see the faces of." |
Editha
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What work mentioned this quote,
If a physician of high standing, and one’s own husband, assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression—a slight hysterical tendency—what is one to do? . . . So I take phosphates or phosphites—whichever it is, and tonics, and journeys, and air, and exercise, and am absolutely forbidden to “work” until I am well again. Personally, I disagree with their ideas . . . |
The Yellow Wall-Paper
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When it occurs to a man that nature does not regard him as important . . . he at first wishes to throw bricks at the temple, and he hates deeply the fact that there are no bricks and no temples . . . . Thereafter he knows the pathos of his situation. |
The Open Boat
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What work mentioned this quote,
“’There’s just one thing you can do, Mr. Waythron,’ he said. ‘You can remind Mrs. Waythron that, by the decree of the courts, I am entitled to have a voice in Lily’s bringing-up. […] I’m not the kind to talk about enforcing my rights, Mr. Waythron. I don’t know as I think a man is entitled to rights he hasn’t known how to hold on to; but this business of the child is different. I’ve never let go there – and I never mean to’” |
The Other Two
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What work mentioned this quote,
You perhaps know how it is with simple natures that fasten themselves like lichens on the stones of circumstance and weather their days to a crumbling conclusion. The great world sounds widely, but it has no call for them... |
The Lost Phoebe
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