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"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.” |
Author = Emerson Meaning =It's to say that what we perceive as physical reality or our view of this world is directly related to our view of self. Story = Self-Reliance |
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“As long as possible live free and uncommitted. It makes but little difference whether you are committed to a farm or the county jail.”
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Author = Henry David Thoreau Meaning =Live for as long as possible without bothering the worrisome, small details. It makes no difference what you are committed to. Story = Where I lived, and What I lived for (Walden) |
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“I went into the woods because I wished 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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Author = Henry David Thoreau Meaning = Thoreau went into the woods because he wished to only pursue the deliberate matters and truly live his life, so that when it came to die, he could say he had lived true. Story = Walden |
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“Cities give not the human senses room enough…”
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Author = Emerson Meaning = In Nature we have “room” to think for ourselves and be one with our own spirituality instead of the city where you are confined to society’s opinions and beliefs. Story = Nature |
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“All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong, with moral questions; and betting naturally accompanies it.”
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Author = Henry David Thoreau Meaning = Thoreau is saying that you never really know what you're gonna get from voting and you are almost being lazy and giving your vote to someone to let them make decisions for you. Story = Civil Disobedience |
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“Simplify, simplify”
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Author = Henry David Thoreau Meaning = Take away unnecessary commitments and simplify yourself life to things that you want to pursue in your life. Story =Walden
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“Our life is frittered away by detail.”
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Author = Henry David Thoreau Meaning = Today, we worry about too many small details and unnecessary details instead of focusing and pursuing our passions. Story =Where I lived and What I lived For (Walden)
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“Society is good when it does not violate me; but best when it is likest to solitude.”
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Author = Emerson Meaning = Society is good when it does not interfere with my thought, and it is best when totally eliminated to enable total free thought. Story = Transcendentalist
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“Morning brings back the heroic ages.”
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Author = Henry David Thoreau Meaning = Morning is when we feel best as human beings and are most “spiritually enlightened” in comparisons to the triumphant heroic ages in which everything was amazing. Story = Walden |
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“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.”
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Author = Emerson Meaning =when you're trying to foolishly be consistent you are giving in to a bad impulse (a hobgoblin) that shows you have a little mind --- that you can't think for yourself. Story = Self-Reliance
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“To be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.”
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Author = Henry David Thoreau Meaning =Thoreau believes that being "awake" means you are emotionally, physically, and spiritually alive in a way that allows you to write, interpret everything around you, and experience everything to the fullest. Story = Walden
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“We must go alone. Isolation must precede true society.”
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Author = Emerson Meaning = Story = Self-Reliance
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“Traveling is a fool’s paradise.”
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Author = Emerson Meaning =Traveling does not have a true meaning or good purpose, one can find what one is “looking for” just by means of “traveling in one’s head.” Story = Self-Reliance |
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“I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb-nail.”
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Author = Henry David Thoreau Meaning =Don’t have a lot of commitments and “accounts” if they aren’t what you truly want to do for they get in the way of your passion. Story =Where I lived and what i lived for (Walden) |
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“Insist on yourself; never imitate.”
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Author = Emerson Meaning = Insist on being yourself never imitate those around you and don't let others/society influence your being and thought. Story = Self-Reliance
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“At the gates of the forest the surprised man…is forced to leave his city…The knapsack of custom falls of his back with the first step he makes into these precincts.”
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Author = Emerson Meaning =As one enters nature, all previous accepted customs and beliefs mean almost nothing. Story =Nature
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“We do not ride the railroad; it rides upon us.”
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Author = Henry David Thoreau Meaning =he is simply using a paradox to symbolize that technology controls society. Story = Walden |
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“These roses under my window make no reference to former roses or to better ones; they are for what they are; they exist with God today.”
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Author = Emerson Meaning =Emerson wishes that roses could be more like people who instead of not referencing other roses, judge each other and have standards. Story =Self-Reliance |
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“Much of our reading, much of our labor, seems mere waiting: it was not what we were born for.”
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Author = Emerson Meaning = Many of the things we do seem very unimportant because it is not what we really want to do or pursue in life. Story = Transcendentalist |
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“I cannot for an instant recognize that political organization as my government which is the slave’s government also.” |
Author = Henry David Thoreau Meaning =He can not follow a government that governs slaves. Story = Civil Disobedience |
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“I found thus that I had been a rich man without any damage to my poverty.”
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Author = Henry David Thoreau Meaning = Story = Walden |
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“The materialist, secure in the certainty of sensation, mocks at fine-spun theories, at stargazers and dreamers, and believes that his life is solid, that he at least take nothing for granted, but knows where he stands, and what he does.”
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Author = Emerson Meaning = He is a phantom walking among phantoms. The materialist is not their own true self but a bland group of people with no desire to break free of conformity. Story = Transcendentalism |
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“Nature is loved by what is best in us.”
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Author = Emerson Meaning =Our own beliefs deep down as well as spiritual thoughts need and love the freedom of nature. Story = Nature |
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“I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterwards.”
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Author = Henry David Thoreau Meaning = We should think for ourselves first before being subjects. Story = Civil Disobedience |
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“To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old woman over their tea.” |
Author = Henry David Thoreau Meaning = Story = Walden |
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“There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction of envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion…” |
Author = Emerson Meaning = You should always be yourself because if you imitate others, your true self is murdered because you throw away your own thought. Story = Self-Reliance |
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“The mass of men serves the state thus, not as men mainly, but as machines, with their bodies.” |
Author = Henry David Thoreau Meaning = Thus, what Thoreau is saying in this passage is that most people do not think enough about what is right and wrong and just blindly follow what the government does. Story = Civil Disobedience |
