ENG 2250 Final Part 1 – Flashcards
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"Some few towns excepted, we are a people of cultivators, scatters over an immense territory communicating with each other by means of good roads and navigable rivers, united by the silken bands of mild government, all respecting the laws.. because they are equitable"
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Crevecoeur, Letters from an American Farmer, 1782
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"...They are a mixture of English, Scotch, Irish, French, Dutch, Germans, and Swedes. From this promiscuous breed, that race called Americans have arisen"
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Crevecoeur, Letters from an American Farmer, 1782
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"In this great American asylum, the poor of Europe have by some means met together.. urged by a variety of motives, here they came.. Here they rank as citizens"
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J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur, Letters from an American Farmer, 1782
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"Men are like plants; the goodness and flavor of the fruit proceeds from the peculiar soil and exposition in which they grow. We are nothing but what we derive from the air we breathe, the climate we inhabit, the government we obey, the system of religion we profess and the nature of our employment"
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J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur, Letters from an American Farmer, 1782 Nature or nurture
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"[Charleston people] are become deaf, their hearts are hardened; they neither see, hear nor feel for the woes of their poor slaves, from whose painful labors all their wealth proceeds"
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J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur, Letters from an American Farmer, 1782 Slavery
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"Strange order of things! Oh, Nature where art thou?-- Are not these black they children as well as we?"
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J. Hector St John de Crevecoeur, Letters from an American Farmer, 1782
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Jonathan Edwards
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"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" ,1741
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Summary of Edwards' Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, 1741
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A sermon trying to convict people of their wrongdoings, provoking them to repent or they'll go to hell, tried to scare people into their repentance
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"The wrath of God burns against them"
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Jonathan Edwards, "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God", 1741
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"For awakening unconverted persons in this congregation"
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Jonathan Edwards, "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God", 1741
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"In this verse is threatened the vengeance of God on wicked unbelieving Israelites, who were God"s visible people.."
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Jonathan Edwards, "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God", 1741 Edwards' "sinners"
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"The use of this awful subject may be for awakening uncovered persons in this congregation"
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Jonathan Edwards, "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" , 1741 Edward's core message about converting people and letting them know if they are sinners they are going to hell
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"There is nothing between you and hell but the air; it is only the power and mere pleasure of God that holds you up"
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Jonathan Edwards, "Sinners in the Hands of Angry God", 1741
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"Sinners are now the objects of that very see anger and wrath of God that is expressed in the torments of hell"
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Jonathan Edwards, "Sinners in the hands of an Angry God", 1741 Edwards' "Angry" God
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"There are black clouds of "God's wrath now hanging directly over your heads"
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Jonathan Edwards, "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God", 1741 How angry is Edwards' God
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The wrath of God is like great waters that are dammed for the present"
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Jonathan Edwards, "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God", 1741 How angry is Edwards' God
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"The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider, or some loathsome insect over the fire, abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked"
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Jonathan Edwards, "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God", 1741 Edwards' and the sinful "Spider"
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"God will have no other use to put you to, but to suffer misery... it is said he will only 'laugh and mock'
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Jonathan Edwards, "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God", 1741 Edwards' and the sinful "Spider"
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"It is no security to wicked men for one moment, that there are no visible means of death at hand"
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Jonathan Edwards, "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God", 1741 Edwards' urgent message
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"The unseen, unthought of ways and means of persons going suddenly out of the world are innumerable and inconceivable"
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Jonathan Edwards, "Sinners in the Hands of Angry God", 1741 Edwards' urgent message
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"Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering"
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Jonathan Edwards, "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God", 1741 Edwards' urgent message
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Benjamin Franklin
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"The Way to Wealth", 1758
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What is Franklin's themes in The Way to Wealth
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Practical wisdom, focusing on work and money, minimal references to religion of any kind, hard work, modesty, good humor, honesty, self education, frugality and thrift
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"A word to the wise is enough"
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Benjamin Franklin, The Way to Wealth, 1758
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"God helps them that help themselves"
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Benjamin Franklin, The Way to Wealth
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The sleeping fox catches no poultry"
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Benjamin Franklin, The way to Wealth, 1758
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"He that lives on hope will die fasting"
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Benjamin Franklin, The way to Wealth, 1758
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"There are no gains without pains"
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Benjamin Franklin, the way to wealth 1758
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"What maintains one vice, would bring up two children"
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Benjamin Franklin, The Way to Wealth, 1758
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"The borrower is a slave to the lender"
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Benjamin Franklin, The Way to Wealth, 1758
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Thomas Paine
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"Common Sense, 1776
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"These are the times that try men's souls"
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Common Sense, Thomas Paine, 1776 Famous opening words
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"The sun never shined on a cause of greater worth"
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Thomas Paine, Common Sense, 1776
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"Now is the seed time of continental union, faith and honor"
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Thomas Paine, Common Sense, 1776
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"These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; "Tis dearness only that gives everything its value"
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Thomas Paine, Common Sense, 1776
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"We have boasted the protection of Great Britain, without considering, that her motive was interest not attachment"
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Thomas Paine, Common Sense, 1776
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"This new world hath been asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty from every part of Europe"
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Thomas Paine, Common Sense, 1776
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"If particular care and attention is not paid to the Ladies we are determined to foment a Rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any Laws in which we have no voice, or representation"
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Abigail Adams, Letters, 1776
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"IN the new code of laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make I desire you would Remember the Ladies and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors"
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Abigail Adams, Letters to John Adams, 1776
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"Do not push unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could. If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a Rebellion"
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Abigail Adams, Letters to John Adams, 1776 If there were no women in their lives, all men would go crazy and go barbaric with the power they have
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John Marrant
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"A Narrative of the Lord's Wonderful Dealings with John Marrant, A Black", 1785
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Andrew Jackson
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"Message to Both Houses of Congress", 1830
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Summary of Andrew Jackson's "Message to Both Houses of Congress", 1830
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Challenge Americans to see themselves as separate from England and to Persevere. He calls people out that government is more than we think and we need to unite as one.
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Tone of Jackson's "Message to Both Houses of Congress",1830
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Critical and hopeful, encouraging motivation, hype man. This is what is going on, this is what we need to do, and this is how we are going to do it. Go America
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"It will relieve the whole state of Mississippi and the western part of Alabama of Indian occupancy"
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Andrew Jackson, "message to both houses of congress, 1830
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"Toward the aborigines of the country no one can indulge a more friendly feeling than myself"
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Andrew Jackson, Message to Both Houses of Congress, 1830
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"The waves of population and civilization are rolling to the westward"
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Andrew Jackson, message to both houses of congress, 1830
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"Is it supposed that the wandering savage has a stronger attachment to his home than the settled, civilized Christian?"
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Andrew Jackson, Message to Both Houses of Congress, 1830 "the children of the forest"
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"We hope that all good citizens.. will unite in attempting to open the eyes of those children of the forest to their true condition, and by a speedy removal to relieve them from all the evils.. With which they may be supposed to be threatened"
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Andrew Jackson, Message to Both Houses of Congress, 1830 "the children of the forest"
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"Cast off their savage habits and become an interesting, civilized and Christian community"
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Andrew Jackson, Message to Both Houses of Congress, 1830 "savages" and "Christians"
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"These treaties.. are characterized by great liberality on the part of the Government"
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Andrew Jackson, "Message to Both Houses of Congress", 1830 "Savages and Christians"
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William Apess
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"An Indian's Looking-Glass for the White Man", 1833
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"The white man and the Indian, whose abilities are the same man who are to be judged by one God"
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William Apess, "An Indian's Looking Glass for the White Man" 1833
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"That fiery curse, that has swept millions, both of red and white men, into the grave with sorrow and disgrace-- rum"
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William Apess, "An Indians Looking Glass for the White Man", 1833
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"I am not talking about the skin but about principles"
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William Apess, "An Indians Looking Glass for the White Man, 1833
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"God has made fifteen colored people to one white and placed them here upon this Earth"
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William Apess, "An Indian's Looking Glass for the White Man" 1833
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"Suppose.. each skin has its national crimes written upon it--- which skin do you think would have the greatest"
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William Apess, "An Indian's Looking Glass for the White Man, 1833
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"Jesus Christ and his Apostles never looked at outward appearances.. but is it not the case that everybody that is not white is treated with contempt and counted as barbarians"
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William Apess, "An Indians Looking Glass for the White Man, 1833
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"You may ask: Who are the children of God? Perhaps you may say, none but white. IF so, the word of the Lord is not true"
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William Apess, "An Indians Looking- Glass for the White Man, 1833
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"I believe the Indians have as much right to choose their partners among the whites if they wish"
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William Apess, "An Indians Looking Glass for the White Man", 1833
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Self Reliance" 1841
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Summary of Emerson's "Self Reliance", 1841
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Emerson's key principles on individualism and personal responsibility
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Emerson's Questions
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What are the limits of individualism? How much should we allow other people to influence us? How should we respond to peer pressure? Family pressure? Religious pressure? Can a person be highly individualistic and also behave morally?
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"Cast the bantling baby on the rocks"
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Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self Reliance", 1841
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"In every work of genius, we recognize our own rejected thought; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty"
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Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self Reliance", 1841
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"IMITATION IS SUICIDE"
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Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self Reliance", 1841 If you imitate others then you are not getting your knowledge from yourself you are getting it from others. Emerson believes if you model yourself after others you might as well be dead because that means you aren't your own person and self reliant.
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"Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string"
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Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self Reliance", 1841
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The virtue in most request in conformity. Self reliance is its aversion.. Whoso would be a man must be a non conformist"
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Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self Reliance" 1841
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"Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind"
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Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self Reliance" 1841
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"No law can be sacred to me but that of my own nature"
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Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self Reliance" 1841
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"What I must do, is all that concerns me, not what the people think"
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Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self Reliance, 1841
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"For nonconformity the world whips you with its displeasure"
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Ralph Waldo emerson, "Self Reliance" 1841
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"Suppose you should contradict yourself, what then?.. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines"
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Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self Reliance, 1841
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"Pythagorus was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood"
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Ralph Waldo Emerson, "self Reliance, 1841
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"We must go alone"
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Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self Reliance", 1841
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"I must be by myself"
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Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self Reliance" 1841
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"..the essence of genius, virtue, and of life, which we call Spontaneity or Instinct"
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Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self Reliance" 1841
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"Another sort of false prayers are our regrets. Discontent is the want of self-reliance; it is the infirmity of the will"
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Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self Reliance", 1841
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"Welcome evermore to gods and man is the self-helping man"
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Ralph Waldo Emerso, "Self Reliance", 1841
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"As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect"
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Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self Reliance", 1841
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"Traveling is a fool's paradise.. what is imitation but the traveling of the mind?"
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Ralph Waldo Emerson, "self Reliance", 1841
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"Insist on yourself; never imitate.. do what is assigned you and you cannot hope too much or dare too much"
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Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self reliance" 1841
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"The reliance on property, including the governments which protect it, is the want of self reliance.. a cultivated man becomes ashamed of his property, out of a new respect for nature"
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Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self Reliance" 1841
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
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"Young Goodman Brown" 1835 and "Minister's Black Veil" 1836
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Allegory in Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown"
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Faith: Young Goodman Brown's wife, but also a reference to religious "faith" When Goodman Brown leaves "Faith" he is leaving both his wife and his religious commitment
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Summary of Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown" ,1835
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Guy goes into woods, sees people from his life who have sinned and his wife Faith is there, people are portrayed one way and different in another, dark secrets/sins within ourselves, metaphor/allegory for society leaving our faith
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Summary of Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Minister's Black Veil", 1836
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Minister is wearing an actual black veil that is never taken off that represents the "secret" sin he's admitting through the veil
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"The black veil, though it covers only our pastor's face, throws its influence over his whole person, and makes him ghost-like from head to foot"
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Nathaniel Hawthorne, "Minister's Black Veil" 1836
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"The next day, the whole village of Milford talked of little less than Parson Hooper's Black Veil"
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Nathaniel Hawthorne, "The minister's black veil", 1836
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What are the themes of Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The minister's Black Veil" 1836
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Sin, religion, marriage, and secrecy
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"There is an hour to come... when all of us shall cast out veils"
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Nathaniel Hawthorne, "The Minister's Black Veil", 1836
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"This veil is a type and a symbol and I am bout to wear it ever.. no mortal eye will see it withdrawn"
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Nathaniel Hawthorne, "The minister's Black Veil", 1836
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"OH! You know not how lonely I am, and how lonely I am to be alone behind my black veil"
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Nathaniel Hawthorne, "The Minister's Black Veil", 1836
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"They called him Father Hooper"
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Nathaniel Hawthorne, "The Minister's Black Veil", 1836
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"Mr. Hooper spent a long life.. shrouded in dismal suspicions; kind and loving, though unloved, and dimly feared"
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Nathaniel Hawthorne, "The minister's black veil", 1836
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"Why do you tremble at me alone?.. Tremble also at each other!.. I look around me, and lo! on ever visage a Black Veil!"
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Nathaniel Hawthorne, "The Minister's black veil, 1836
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"Father Hooper fell back upon his pillow, a veiled corpse, with a faint smile lingering upon the lips. Still veiled, they lay him in his coffin, and a veiled corpse they bore him to the grave"
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Nathaniel Hawthorne, "The Minister's black Veil", 1836
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Margaret Fuller
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"The Great Lawsuit. Man versus Men. Woman versus Women", 1843
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Summary of Margaret Fuller's "The Great Lawsuit Man vs. Men Woman vs Women", 1843
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Women are self reliant but not treated as such, not second class citizens or dependent on what men think of them, education (women are unable to get this so they are seen as inferior, even though they are capable of being smart"
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"The great suit has now been carried on through many ages"
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Margaret Fuller, "The Great Lawsuit man vs men woman vs women, 1843
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"Marks have been left by the footsteps of man, whenever he has made his way through the wilderness of men"
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Margaret Fuller, "The Great Lawsuit", 1843
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"The highest ideal man can form of his own capabilities is that which he is destined to attain"
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Margaret Fuller, "The Great Lawsuit", 1843
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"Sermons preached from the text "Be ye perfect" are the only sermons of a pervasive and deep-searching influence"
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margaret Fuller, The great lawsuit, 1843
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"new manifestation is at hand, a new hour in the day of man.. something new shall presently be shown of the life of man, for hearts crave it now"
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Margaret Fuller, The great lawsuit" 1843
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"There exists in the world of men, a tone of feeling towards women as towards slaves, such as is expressed in the common phrase, tell that to women and children"
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Fuller, "The great lawsuit" 1843
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"It is not surprising that it should be the anti slavery party that pleads for women"
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Fuller, The great lawsuit, 1843
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"We would have every arbitrary barrier thrown down. We would have every path laid open to woman as freely as to man "
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Fuller, The great lawsuit, 1843
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"Her father was a man who cherished no sentimental reverence for woman, but a firm beleif in the equality of the sexes"
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Fuller, The great lawsuit, 1843 "Miranda" a fictional version of Margaret Fuller
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"Religion was early awakened in my soul, a sense that what the soul is capable to ask it must attain and that .. I must depend on myself as the only constant friend"
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Fuller, the great lawsuit, 1843
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"Early i percieved that man never, in any extreme of despair, wished to be women"
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Fuller, The Great lawsuit, 1843
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Each man wishes to be the lord in a little world, to be superior over at least one"
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Fuller, the great lawsuit, 1843
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"Were women free, were they wise fully to develop the strength and beauty of woman, they would never wish to be men, or manlike"
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Fuller, the great lawsuit, 1843
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"Civilized Europe is still in a transition state about marriage, not only in practice but in thought. A great majority of societies and individuals are still doubtful whether earthly marriage is to be a union of souls, or merely a contract of convenience and utility"
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Fuller, the great lawsuit, 1843
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"Another sign of the time is furnished by the triumphs of female authorship. They have been great and constantly increasing"
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Fuller, The great lawsuit, 1843
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"women are indeed the easy victims of priestcraft, or self delusion, but this might not be, if the intellect was developed in proportion to the other powers"
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fuller, the great lawsuit, 1843
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"the names of nations are feminine. Religion, virtue, and victory are feminine"
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"The electrical, the magnetic element in woman has not been fairly developed at any period. Everything might be expected from it. She has far more of it than man. This is commonly expressed by her saying that her intuitions are more rapid and more correct"
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Fuller, the great lawsuit, 1843
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"The especial genius of woman I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency"
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Fuller, the great lawsuit, 1843
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Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But, in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely famine woman"
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Fuller, the great lawsuit, 1843
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"I would have woman lay aside all thought, such as the habitually cherishes of being taught and led by men"
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fuller, the great lawsuit, 1843
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"men as at present instructed, will not help this work, because they are under the slavery of habit"
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fuller, the great lawsuit, 1843
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men do not look at both sides, and women must leave off asking them and being influenced by them, but retire within themselves and explore the groundwork of being till they find their peculiar secret"
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fuller, the great lawsuit
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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"Declaration of Sentiments", 1848
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Summary of Elizabeth Lady Stanton "Declaration of Sentiments", 1848
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Modeled on the declaration of independence but aimed at women's rights specifically, list of what men have deprived more women of, women were basically not a citizen,
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"all men and women are created equal"
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton, "Declaration of Sentiments" 1848
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"The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpation on the part of man toward woman, having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over her"
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Declaration of sentiments, 1848
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"He has never permitted her to exercise her inalienable right to the elective franchise voting"
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Declaration of Sentiments, 1848
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"She is compelled to promise obedience to her husband"
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Declaration of Sentiments, 1848
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"He has taxed her to support a government which recognizes her only who her property can be made profitable to it
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"Elizabeth Cady Stanton, declaration of sentiments, 1848
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"He has denied her... a thorough education, all colleges being being closed against her"
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Declaration of sentiments, 1848
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"He has created a false public sentiment by giving to the world a different code of morals for men and women"
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Stanton, Declaration of sentiments, 1848
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Judith Sargent Murry
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"Desultory Thoughts upon the Utility of Encouraging a degree of Self- Complacency, especially in Female Bosoms" 1784
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"To teach young minds to aspire, ought to be the ground work of education"
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Judith Sargent Murray, Desultory Thoughts, 1784
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"I would, i must repeat, by all means guard women against a low estimation of self... I would destroy the weapons of flattery; or render them useless, by leaving not the least room for their operation"
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Desultory Thoughts, 1784
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Henry David Thoreau
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"Civil Disobedience" 1849 "Life without Principle" 1863
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Summary of Henry David Thoreau "Civil Disobedience", 1849
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He challenges the government, he thinks less government is good government, people are obliged to oppose it
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"That government is best which governs not at all"
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Henry David Thoreau, "Civil Disobedience" 1849
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"A government in which the majority rule in all cases cannot be based on justice, even as far as men understand it"
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Henry David Thoreau, "Civil Disobedience, 1849
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"Why has every man a conscience, then? I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward. It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right"
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Henry David Thoreau, "Civil Disobedience" 1849
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All voting is a sort of gamin, like checkers or blackgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong, with moral questions"
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Henry David Thoreau, Civl Disobedience, 1849
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"Even voting for the right is doing nothing for it"
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Henry David Thoreau, "Civil Disobedience, 1849
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ANy man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one already"
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Henry David Thoreau, "civil Disobedience" 1849
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"Under government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison"
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Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849
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"Cast your whole vote, not a strip of paper merely, but your whole influence"
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Henry David Throeau, Civil Disobedience, 1849
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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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Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience 1849
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"The rich man --- not to make any invidious comparison-- is always sold to the institution which makes him rich. Absolutely speaking, the more money, the less virtue"
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Henry David Throeau, Civil Disobedience, 1849
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"You must hire or squat somewhere, and raise but a small crop and eat that soon. You must live within yourself, and depend upon yourself, always tucked up and ready for a start, and not have many affairs"
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Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849
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"No man with a genius for legislation has appeared in America"
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Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849
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"The authority of the government.. is still an impure one.. it can have no pure right over my person and property but what I concede to it"
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Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849
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There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the state comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power.. and treats him accordingly"
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Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849
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Henry David Thoreau "Life without Principle" 1863 Summary
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Walden lives in the woods, being self reliant, how you gain your knowledge, physically self-reliant
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"I do not need the police of meaningless labor to regulate me"
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Thoreau, Life without principle,1863
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"Let us consider the way in which we spend our lives"
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"The world is a place of business. What an infinite bustle! I am awakened every night by the panting of the locomotive. It interrupts my dreams. There is no sabbath. It would be glorious to see mankind at leisure for once"
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It is nothing but work, work, work"
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The ways by which you get money almost without exception lead downward. To have done anything by which you earned money merely is to have been truly idle or worse"
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"Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it"
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"A man may be very industrious and yet not spend his time well. There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting a living"
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"you must get your living by loving"
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"it makes god to be a moneyed gentleman who scatters a handful of pennies in order to see mankind scramble for them"
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"The world's raffle! And have all the precepts in all the Bibles taught men only this?"
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Thoreau, Life wihout principle, 1863
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The gold digger is the enemy of the honest laborer"
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"I do not know but that it is too much to read one newspaper a week"
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Thoreaue, Life without principle, 1863
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"I am astonished to observe how willing men are to lumber their minds with such rubbish"
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Such is, for the most part, the news in newspapers and conversation, it is important to preserve the mind's chastity in this respect"
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"If i am to be a thoroughfare, I prefer that it be of the mountain brooks.. and not of the town sewers"
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"I believe that the mind can be permanently profaned by the habit of attending to trivial things. SO that all our thoughts be tinged with triviality"
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"we should treat our minds, that is, ourselves, as innocent and ingenuous children, whose guardians we are"
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"read not the times. Read the eternities"
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"What is it to be born free and not to live free? What is the value of any political freedom, but as a mans to moral freedom? Is it a freedom to be slaves, or a freedom to be free of which we boast"
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