quotes from walden, civil disobedience, nature, self-reliance

Question 1

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

Answer 1

Walden- Thoreau

Question 2

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

Answer 2

Walden- Thoreau

Question 3

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

Answer 3

Walden-Thoreau

Question 4

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

Answer 4

Walden- Thoreau

Question 5

the refusal was all I wanted

Answer 5

Walden- Thoreau

Question 6

As long as possible live free and uncommitted. It makes but little difference whether you are committed to a farm or the county jail

Answer 6

Walden- Thoreau

Question 7

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

Answer 7

Walden-thoreau

Question 8

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

Answer 8

Walden- Thoreau

Question 9

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

Answer 9

Walden- Throeau

Question 10

our life is frittered away by detail

Answer 10

Walden- Thoreau

Question 11

simplicity, simpicity, simplicity

Answer 11

Walden- Thoreau

Question 12

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

Answer 12

Walden- Thoreau

Question 13

time is but the stream i go a fishing in

Answer 13

Walden- Thoreau

Question 14

if a man does not keep pace with his companions

Answer 14

Walden- Thoreau

Question 15

now put the foundations under them

Answer 15

walden- thoreau

Question 16

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

Answer 16

walden- thoreau

Question 17

do not trouble yourself much to get new things

Answer 17

walden-throeau

Question 18

sell your clothes and keep your thoughts

Answer 18

walden

Question 19

money is not required to buy one necessary of the soul

Answer 19

walden

Question 20

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

Answer 20

walden

Question 21

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

Answer 21

walden

Question 22

that goverment is best which governs least

Answer 22

civil disobedience- thoreau

Question 23

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

Answer 23

civil disobedience- thoreau

Question 24

In the woods, we return to reason and faith

Answer 24

nature- emerson

Question 25

all mean egotism vanishes

Answer 25

nature- emerson

Question 26

I am part or parcel of God

Answer 26

nature- emerson

Question 27

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

Answer 27

nature- emerson

Question 28

nature always wears the colors of the spirit

Answer 28

nature- emerson

Question 29

that imitation is suicide

Answer 29

self reliance- emerson

Question 30

trust thyself; every heart vibrates to that iron string

Answer 30

self reliance- emerson

Question 31

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

Answer 31

self reliance- emerson

Question 32

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

Answer 32

self reliance- emerson

Question 33

whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist

Answer 33

self reliance- emerson

Question 34

a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds

Answer 34

self reliance- emerson

Question 35

to be great is to be misunderstood

Answer 35

self reliance- emerson