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“I have thus surveyed the country on every side within a dozen miles of where I live

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Walden- Thoreau

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This experience entitled me to be regarded as a sort of real-estate broker by my friends

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Walden- Thoreau

3
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I said; and there I did live, for an hour,

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Walden-Thoreau

4
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For a man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone

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Walden- Thoreau

5
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the refusal was all I wanted

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Walden- Thoreau

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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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Walden- Thoreau

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The winds which passed over my dwelling were such as sweep over the ridges of mountains

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Walden-thoreau

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I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartanlike as to put to rout all that was not life

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Walden- Thoreau

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for most men, it appears to me, are in a strange uncertainty about it, whether it is of the devil or of God

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Walden- Throeau

10
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our life is frittered away by detail

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Walden- Thoreau

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simplicity, simpicity, simplicity

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Walden- Thoreau

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the onlu cure for it as for them is in a rigid economy,

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Walden- Thoreau

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time is but the stream i go a fishing in

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Walden- Thoreau

14
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if a man does not keep pace with his companions

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Walden- Thoreau

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now put the foundations under them

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walden- thoreau

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however mean your life is, meet it and live it;

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walden- thoreau

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do not trouble yourself much to get new things

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walden-throeau

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sell your clothes and keep your thoughts

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walden

19
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money is not required to buy one necessary of the soul

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walden

20
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which had stood in a farmer’s kitchen for sixty years

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walden

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who knows what beautiful and winged life, whose egg has been buried for ages under many concentric layers

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walden

22
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that goverment is best which governs least

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civil disobedience- thoreau

23
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I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government

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civil disobedience- thoreau

24
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In the woods, we return to reason and faith

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nature- emerson

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all mean egotism vanishes

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nature- emerson

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I am part or parcel of God

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nature- emerson

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yet it is certain that the power to produce this delight does not reside in nature, bu in man, or in a harmony of both

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nature- emerson

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nature always wears the colors of the spirit

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nature- emerson

29
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that imitation is suicide

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self reliance- emerson

30
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trust thyself; every heart vibrates to that iron string

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self reliance- emerson

31
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society every is in conspiracy against the manhood of everyone of its members

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self reliance- emerson

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the virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion

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self reliance- emerson

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whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist

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self reliance- emerson

34
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a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds

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self reliance- emerson

35
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to be great is to be misunderstood

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self reliance- emerson

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