Emerson vs. Thoreau Quotes

Question 1

He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness

Answer 1

Emerson

Question 2

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind

Answer 2

Emerson

Question 3

Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this…

Answer 3

Emerson

Question 4

I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead institutions

Answer 4

Emerson

Question 5

Every decent and well-spoken individual affects and sways me more than is right

Answer 5

Emerson

Question 6

I shun father and mother and wife and brother when my genius calls me

Answer 6

Emerson

Question 7

Are they my poor?

Answer 7

Emerson

Question 8

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

Answer 8

Thoreau

Question 9

When I came to die, I would not discover that I had not lived

Answer 9

Thoreau

Question 10

Train that rides upon us

Answer 10

Thoreau

Question 11

It is remarkable how easily and insensibly we fall into a particular route and make a beaten track for ourselves

Answer 11

Thoreau

Question 12

In proportion as a man simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weaknedd

Answer 12

Thoreau

Question 13

If the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government, let it go

Answer 13

Thoreau

Question 14

The government is best who governs the least

Answer 14

Thoreau