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174 Cards in this Set
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"There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide"
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SELF-RELIANCE
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"Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string"
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SELF-RELIANCE
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"Whoso would be man, must be a nonconformist"
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SELF-RELIANCE
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"Good and bad are but names very readily transferrable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong what is against it..."
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SELF-RELIANCE
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"What I must do is all the concerns me, not what the people think"
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SELF-RELIANCE
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"It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude"
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SELF-RELIANCE
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"For nonconformity the world whips you with its displeasure"
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SELF-RELIANCE
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"The sour faces of the multitude, like their sweet faces, have no deep cause, but are put on and off as the wind blows and a newspaper directs"
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SELF-RELIANCE
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"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesman and philosophers and divines"
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SELF-RELIANCE
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"To be great is to be misunderstood"
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SELF-RELIANCE
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"Thought the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till..."
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SELF-RELIANCE
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"Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of contemporaries, the connection of events"
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SELF-RELIANCE
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"He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness"
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SELF-RELIANCE
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"Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind"
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SELF-RELIANCE
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"Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world"
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SELF-RELIANCE
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"'They do not seem to me to be such; but if i am the Devil's child, I will live then from the Devil'"
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SELF-RELIANCE
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"The other terror that scares us from self-trust is our consistency; a reverence for our past act or word because the eyes of others have no other data for computing our orbit than our past acts, and we are loth to disappoint them..."
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SELF-RELIANCE
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"With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do"
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SELF-RELIANCE
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"Speak what you think now in hard words and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said today"
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SELF-RELIANCE
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"Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wide spirit that ever took flesh"
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SELF-RELIANCE
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"Government is best which governs least"
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CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE
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"Government is best which governs not at all"
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CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE
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"But, to speak practically and as a citizen, unlike those who call themselves no-government men, I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government"
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CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE
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"Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his conscience to the legislator?"
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CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE
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"I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward"
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CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE
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"The have the same sort of worth only as horses and dogs"
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CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE
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"You may see a file of soldiers, colonel, captain, corporal, privates, powder-monkeys, and all, marching in admirable order over hill and dale to the wars, against their wills, ay, against their consciences, which makes it very steep marching indeed, and produces a palpitation of the heart"
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CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE
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"Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note,
As his corse to the rampart we hurried; Not a solder discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried" |
CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE
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"The mass of men serve the state thus, not as men mainly, but as machines, with their bodies"
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CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE
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"Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison"
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CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE
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"Others- as most legislators, politicians, lawyers, ministers, and office-holders- serve the state chiefly with their heads; and, as they rarely make any moral distinctions, they are as likely to serve the Devil, without intending it, as God"
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CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE
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"A very few- as heroes, patriots, martyrs, reformers in the great sens, and men- serve the state with their consciences also, and so necessarily resist it for the most part; and they are commonly treated as enemies by it..."
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CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE
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"I saw that the State was half-witted, that it was as timid as a lone woman with her silver spoons"
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CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE
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"If a plant cannot live according to its nature; it dies and so a man"
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CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE
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"Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison"
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CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE
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"Cast your whole vote, not a strip of paper merely, but your whole influence"
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CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE
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"A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority; it is not even a minority then; but it is irresistible when it clogs by its whole weight"
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CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE
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"I did not for a moment feel confined, and the walls seemed a great waste of stone and mortar"
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CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE
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"I could not but smile to see how industriously they locked the door on my meditations, which followed them out again without let or hindrance, and they were really all that was dangerous"
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CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE
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"I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest. What force has a multitude"
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CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE
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"I am not the son of the engineer. I perceive that when an acorn and a chestnut fall side by side, the one does not remain inert to make way for the other, but both obey their own laws, and spring and grow and flourish the best they can, till one, perchance, overshadows and destroys the
other" |
CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE
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"The upright white hewn studs and freshly planed door and window casings gave it a clean and airy look, especially in the morning"
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WALDEN
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"As the sun rose, I saw it throwing off it's nightly clothing of mist"
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WALDEN
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"We are determined to be starved before we are hungry"
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WALDEN
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"I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life"
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WALDEN
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"Never dreaming the while that he lives in the dark unfathomed mammoth cave of this world, and has but the rudiment of an eye himself"
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WALDEN
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"The intellect is a cleaver; it discerns and rifts its way into the secret of things. I do not wish to be any more busy with my hands than is necessary"
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WALDEN
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"If we read of one man robbed, or murdered, or killed by accident, or one house burned, or one vessel wrecked, or one steamboat blown up, or one cow run over on the Western railroad, or one mad dog killed, or one lot of grasshoppers in the winter, -- we never need read of another"
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WALDEN
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"I went to the woods because I wanted to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when i came to die, discover that I had not lived"
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WALDEN
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"Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life?"
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WALDEN
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"Still we live meanly, like ants; though the fable tells us that we were long ago changed into men; like pygmies we fight with cranes"
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WALDEN
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"Our life is fritted away by detail. An honest man has hardly need to count more than his ten fingers, or in extreme cases he may add his ten toes, and lump the rest"
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WALDEN
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"Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!"
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WALDEN
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"We have the Saint Vitus' dance, and cannot possibly keep our heads still"
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WALDEN
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"I could easily do without the post-office. I think that there are very few important communications made through it"
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WALDEN
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"Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature, and not be thrown off track by every nutshell and mosquito's wing that falls on the rails"
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WALDEN
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"Time is the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it; but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is"
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WALDEN
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"I think that the richest vein is somewhere hereabouts; so by the divining rod and thin rising vapors I judge; and here I will begin to mine"
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WALDEN
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"This is a delicious evening, when the whole body is one sense, and imbibes delight through every pore. I go and come with a strange liberty in Nature, a part of herself"
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WALDEN
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"Sympathy with the fluttering alder and poplar leaves almost takes away my breath; yet, like the lake, my serenity is rippled but not ruffled"
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WALDEN
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"Why should I feel lonely? Is not our planet in the Milky Way?"
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WALDEN
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"What sort of space is that which separates a man from his fellows and makes him solitary?"
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WALDEN
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"I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another"
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WALDEN
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"Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads..."
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WALDEN
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"One attraction in coming to the woods to live was that I should have leisure and opportunity to see the spring come in"
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WALDEN
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"The life in us is like the water in the river"
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WALDEN
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"The shadows of poverty and meanness gather around us, and lo! creation widens to our view"
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WALDEN
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"Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like a sage"
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WALDEN
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"We are often reminded that if there were bestowed on us the wealth of Croesus, our aims must still be the same, and means essentially the same"
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WALDEN
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"Money is not required to buy one necessary of the soul"
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WALDEN
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"If I were confined to a corner of a garret all my days, like a spider, the would would be just as large to me while I had my thoughts about me"
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WALDEN
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"The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the almshouse as brightly as from the rich man's abode"
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WALDEN
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"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer"
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WALDEN
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"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them..."
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WALDEN
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"I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours"
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WALDEN
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"In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness"
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WALDEN
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"Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises?"
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WALDEN
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"It looks poorest when you are richest...Love your life, as poor as it is"
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WALDEN
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"Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends"
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WALDEN
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"Superfluous wealth can by superfluities only"
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WALDEN
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"Of a strong and beautiful bug which came out of the dry leaf of an old table of apple-tree wood"
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WALDEN
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"The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us"
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WALDEN
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"Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star"
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WALDEN
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"Lo, 'tis autumn,
Lo, where the trees, deeper green, yellower and redder, Cool and sweeten Ohio's villages with leaves fluttering in the moderate wind" |
COME UP FROM THE FIELDS, FATHER
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"(Smell you the smell of the grapes on the vines?
Smell you the buckwheat where the bees were lately buzzing?)" |
COME UP FROM THE FIELDS, FATHER
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"Down in the fields all prospers well,
But now from the fields comes father, come at the daughter's call" |
COME UP FROM THE FIELDS, FATHER
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"Open the envelope quickly.
O this is not our son's writing, yet his name is sign'd" |
COME UP FROM THE FIELDS, FATHER
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"Grieve not so, dear mother, (the just-grown daughter speaks through her sobs)"
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COME UP FROM THE FIELDS, FATHER
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"But the mother needs to be better,
She with think form presently drest in black" |
COME UP FROM THE FIELDS, FATHER
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"In the midnight walking, weeping, longing with one deep longing, O that she might withdraw unnoticed, silent from life escape and withdraw, to follow, to seek, to be with her dear dead son"
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COME UP FROM THE FIELDS, FATHER
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"Those of mechanics, each one singing his as it should be blithe and strong"
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I HEAR AMERICA SINGING
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"The day what belongs to the day-- at night the party of young fellows, robust, friendly, singing with open mouths their strong melodious songs"
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I HEAR AMERICA SINGING
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"I celebrate myself, and sing myself"
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SONG OF MYSELF #1
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"And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you" |
SONG OF MYSELF #1
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"I loaf and invite my soul,
I lean and loaf at my ease observing a spear of summer grass" |
SONG OF MYSELF #1
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"My tongue, every atom of my blood, form'd from this soil, this air, born here of parents born here from parents the same, and their parents the same"
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SONG OF MYSELF #1
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"I, now thirty seven years old in perfect health begin, hoping to cease not till death"
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SONG OF MYSELF #1
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"Creeds and schools in abeyance, retiring back a while sufficed at what they are, but never forgotten"
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SONG OF MYSELF #1
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I harbor for good or bad, I permit to speak at every hazard, nature without check with original energy"
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SONG OF MYSELF #1
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"The spotted hawk swoops by and accuses me, he complains of my gab and my loitering"
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SONG OF MYSELF #52
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"I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world"
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SONG OF MYSELF #52
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"The last scud of day holds back for me, it flings my likeness after the rest and true as any on the shadow'd wilds, it coaxes me to the vapor and the dusk"
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SONG OF MYSELF #52
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"I depart as air, I shake my white locks at the runaway sun"
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SONG OF MYSELF #52
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"I effuse my flesh in eddies, and drift it in lacy jags"
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SONG OF MYSELF #52
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"I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love, If you want me again look for me under your boot-soles"
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SONG OF MYSELF #52
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"You will hardly know who I am or what I mean, but I shall be good health to you nevertheless, and filter and fibre your blood"
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SONG OF MYSELF #52
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"Failing to fetch me at first keep encouraged, missing me one place search another, I stop somewhere waiting for you"
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SONG OF MYSELF #52
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"To comprehend a nectar requires sorest need"
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SUCCESS IS COUNTED SWEETEST
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"Not one of all the purple Host, who took the Flag today can tell the definition so clear of Victory"
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SUCCESS IS COUNTED SWEETEST
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"As he defeated--dying--on whose forbidden ear, the distant strains of triumph burst agonized and clear!"
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SUCCESS IS COUNTED SWEETEST
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"With a Bobolink for a Chorister
And an Orchard for a Dome" |
SOME KEEP THE SABBATH GOING TO CHURCH
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"I just wear my Wings - And instead of tolling the bell for Church, our little Sexton - sings"
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SOME KEEP THE SABBATH GOING TO CHURCH
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"God preaches, a noted Clergyman - and the sermon is never long"
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SOME KEEP THE SABBATH GOING TO CHURCH
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"So instead of getting to Heaven, at last - I'm going, all along"
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SOME KEEP THE SABBATH GOING TO CHURCH
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"If you were coming in the Fall, I'd brush the Summer by"
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IF YOU WERE COMING IN THE FALL
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"I'd brush the Summer by with half a smile, and half a spurn, as Housewives do, a Fly"
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IF YOU WERE COMING IN THE FALL
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"I'd wind the months in balls-- and put them each in separate Drawers for fear the numbers fuse"
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IF YOU WERE COMING IN THE FALL
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"If only Centuries, delayed, I'd count them on my Hand, subtracting, till my fingers dropped into Van Dieman's Land"
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IF YOU WERE COMING IN THE FALL
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"I'd toss it yonder, like a Rind, and take Eternity"
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IF YOU WERE COMING IN THE FALL
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"It goads me, like the Goblin Bee-- that will not state-- its sting"
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IF YOU WERE COMING IN THE FALL
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"He bit an Angleworm in halves and ate the fellow, raw"
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A BIRD CAME DOWN THE WALK
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"And then he drank a Dew from a convenient Grass-- and then hopped sidewise to the Wall to let a Beetle pass"
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A BIRD CAME DOWN THE WALK
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"They looked like frightened Beads, I thought--
He stirred his Velvet head" |
A BIRD CAME DOWN THE WALK
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"I offered him a crumb
And he unrolled his feathers And rowed him softer home--" |
A BIRD CAME DOWN THE WALK
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"Than Oars divide the Ocean to silver for a seam-- or Butterflies, off banks of Noon leap, plashless as they swim"
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A BIRD CAME DOWN THE WALK
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Then-- shuts the door-- to her divine Majority-- present no more--"
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THE SOUL SELECTS HER OWN SOCIETY
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"Unmoved-- she notes the Chariots--pausing-- at her low Gate-- unmoved-- an emperor be kneeling upon her mat--"
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THE SOUL SELECTS HER OWN SOCIETY
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"I've known her-- from an ample nation-- choose one-- then-- close the Valves of her attention--like stone--"
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THE SOUL SELECTS HER OWN SOCIETY
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"Tell all the Truth but tell it slant--"
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TELL ALL THE TRUTH
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"Success in Circuit lies
Too bright for our infirm Delight" |
TELL ALL THE TRUTH
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"The Truth's superb surprise"
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TELL ALL THE TRUTH
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"As Lightning to the Children eased
With explanation kind" |
TELL ALL THE TRUTH
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"The Truth must dazzle gradually
Or every man be blind--" |
TELL ALL THE TRUTH
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"Heart! We will forget him!
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HEART! WE WILL FORGET HIM!
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"You and I -- tonight!"
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HEART! WE WILL FORGET HIM!
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You may forget the warmth he gave--
I will forget the light!" |
HEART! WE WILL FORGET HIM!
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When you have done, pray tell me
That I may straight begin" |
HEART! WE WILL FORGET HIM!
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"Haste! lest while you're lagging
I remember him!" |
HEART! WE WILL FORGET HIM!
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"A narrow Fellow in the Grass
Occasionally rides" |
A NARROW FELLOW IN THE GRASS
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"You may have met Him--did you not
His notice sudden is--" |
A NARROW FELLOW IN THE GRASS
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"The Grass divides as with a Comb--"
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A NARROW FELLOW IN THE GRASS
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"A spotted shaft is seen--
An then it closes at your feet And opens further on--" |
A NARROW FELLOW IN THE GRASS
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"He likes a Boggy Acre
A Floor too cool for Corn--" |
A NARROW FELLOW IN THE GRASS
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"Yet when a Boy, and Barefoot --
I more than once at Noon Have passed, I thought, a Whip lash" |
A NARROW FELLOW IN THE GRASS
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"Unbraiding in the Sun
When stooping to secure it It wrinkled and was gone--" |
A NARROW FELLOW IN THE GRASS
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"Several of Nature's People
I know, and they know me--" |
A NARROW FELLOW IN THE GRASS
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"I feel for them a transport
Of cordiality" |
A NARROW FELLOW IN THE GRASS
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"But never met this Fellow
Attended, or alone" |
A NARROW FELLOW IN THE GRASS
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"Without a tighter breathing
And Zero at the Bone--" |
A NARROW FELLOW IN THE GRASS
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"I heard a fly buzz--when I died--"
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I HEARD A FLY BUZZ WHEN I DIED
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"The Stillness in the Room
Was like the Stillness in the Air-- Between the Heaves of Storm--" |
I HEARD A FLY BUZZ WHEN I DIED
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"The Eyes around--had wrung them dry--"
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I HEARD A FLY BUZZ WHEN I DIED
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"And Breaths were gathering firm
For that last Onset--when the King Be witnessed--in the Room--" |
I HEARD A FLY BUZZ WHEN I DIED
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"I willed my Keepsakes--Signed away"
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I HEARD A FLY BUZZ WHEN I DIED
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"What portion of me be
Assignable--and then it was" |
I HEARD A FLY BUZZ WHEN I DIED
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"There interposed a Fly--"
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I HEARD A FLY BUZZ WHEN I DIED
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"With Blue--uncertain stumbling Buzz--"
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I HEARD A FLY BUZZ WHEN I DIED
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"Between the light--and me--"
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I HEARD A FLY BUZZ WHEN I DIED
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"And then the Windows failed--and then
I could not see to see--" |
I HEARD A FLY BUZZ WHEN I DIED
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"Because I could not stop for Death--"
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BECAUSE I COULD NOT STOP FOR DEATH
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"He kindly stopped for me--"
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BECAUSE I COULD NOT STOP FOR DEATH
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"The Carriage held but just Ourselves--
And immortality" |
BECAUSE I COULD NOT STOP FOR DEATH
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"We slowly drove--He knew no haste"
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BECAUSE I COULD NOT STOP FOR DEATH
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"And I had put away
My labor and my leisure too, For His Civility" |
BECAUSE I COULD NOT STOP FOR DEATH
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"We passed in the School, where Children strove
At Recess--in the Ring--" |
BECAUSE I COULD NOT STOP FOR DEATH
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"We passed the Fields of Grazing Grain--"
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BECAUSE I COULD NOT STOP FOR DEATH
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"We passed the Setting Sun--
Or rather--He passed Us" |
BECAUSE I COULD NOT STOP FOR DEATH
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"The Dews drew quivering and chill--"
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BECAUSE I COULD NOT STOP FOR DEATH
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"For only Gossamer, my Gown--"
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BECAUSE I COULD NOT STOP FOR DEATH
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"My Tippet--only Tulle--"
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BECAUSE I COULD NOT STOP FOR DEATH
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"We paused before a House that seemed
A swelling of the Ground--" |
BECAUSE I COULD NOT STOP FOR DEATH
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"The Roof was scarcely visible--
The Cornice--in the Ground--" |
BECAUSE I COULD NOT STOP FOR DEATH
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"Since--'tis Centuries--and yet
Feels shorter than the Day" |
BECAUSE I COULD NOT STOP FOR DEATH
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"I first surmised the Horses' Heads
Were toward Eternity--" |
BECAUSE I COULD NOT STOP FOR DEATH
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