ROMANTICISM/TRANSCENDENTALISM Flashcards by Berkley Bryant | Brainscape

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what category is the Values feeling and intuition over reason.

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Romanticism

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what category is the Places faith in inner experience and the power of the imagination.

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Romanticism

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what category Shuns the artificiality of civilization and seeks unspoiled nature.

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Romanticism

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what category Contemplates nature’s beauty as a path to spiritual and moral development.

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Romanticism

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what category Prefers youthful innocence to educated sophistication

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Romanticism

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what category Champions individual freedom and the worth of the individual.

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Romanticism

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what category Looks backward to the wisdom of the past and distrusts progress.

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Romanticism

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what category Finds beauty and truth in exotic locales, the supernatural realm, and in the inner world of the imagination

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Romanticism

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what category Sees poetry as the highest expression of the imagination.

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Romanticism

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what category Finds inspiration in myth, legend, and folk culture.

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Romanticism

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what category Looked backward to established European traditions

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American Poetry - Fireside Poets

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what category had The most popular poets America ever produced

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American Poetry - Fireside Poets

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what category was Memorized and recited for years

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American Poetry - Fireside Poets

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what category had Comforting topics rather than challenging topics

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American Poetry - Fireside Poets

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what category Could be “preachy” and didactic

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American Poetry - Fireside Poets

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what category had Pleasing style; not innovative

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American Poetry - Fireside Poets

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what category had “Cross of Snow” & “Bells”

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American Poetry - Fireside Poets

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what category was Originated in Europe

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Gothic / Dark - Romantic Escapism

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what category had Wild, haunted landscapes

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Gothic / Dark - Romantic Escapism

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what category had Supernatural events

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Gothic / Dark - Romantic Escapism

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what category had Edgar Allan Poe

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Gothic / Dark - Romantic Escapism

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what category was exotic

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Gothic / Dark - Romantic Escapism

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what category was Contemplation of nature

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Nature - Romantic Escapism

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what category had Lyric poems, which express thoughts and feelings

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Nature - Romantic Escapism

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what category Commonplace object or event leads to deep insight(s)

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Nature - Romantic Escapism

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what category was Like Puritans, more contemplating and inner life

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Nature - Romantic Escapism

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where did a place of idealized opportunity, chance for social/ economic mobility occur

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Cities

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where did now crowded and dirty areas occur

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Cities

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where did rapid spread of disease occur

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Cities

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where did crime and violence, gangs occur

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Cities

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where did Industrial Revolution occur

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Cities

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where did William Cullen Bryant’s idea for Central Park initiated occur

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Cities

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whos Characteristics are young or possesses youthful qualities

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American Romantic Hero

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whos Characteristics are
innocent and pure of purpose

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American Romantic Hero

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whos Characteristics are a sense of honor based not on society’s rules but on some higher principle

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American Romantic Hero

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whos Characteristics are a knowledge of people and of life based on deep, intuitive understanding, not on formal learning

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American Romantic Hero

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whos Characteristics are Loves nature and avoids town life

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American Romantic Hero

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whos Characteristics are Quests for some higher truth in the natural world

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American Romantic Hero

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what was a Offshoot of Romanticism

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Transcend

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to go beyond the limits of; exceed; be above and independent of the physical universe.

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what well-educated people, mostly New Englanders

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Origin of Transcendentalism

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what stared the time for literary independence–deliberately different from anything in Europe – something uniquely American

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Origin of Transcendentalism

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what was strongly influenced by Deism

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Origin of Transcendentalism

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what Deists believe that God created the universe but remains apart from it and permits his creation to administer itself through natural Laws.

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Origin of Transcendentalism

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what stresses the importance of ethical conduct

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Origin of Transcendentalism

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“to transcend”

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move from the rational to a spiritual realm

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whos Beliefs Intuition, not reason, is the highest human faculty

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Transcendental Beliefs

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whos Beliefs are to Rejection of materialism

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Transcendental Beliefs

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whos Beliefs are Simplicity is the path to spiritual greatness

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Transcendental Beliefs

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whos Beliefs are Nature is a source of truth & inspiration

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Transcendental Beliefs

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whos Beliefs are Non-conformity, individuality & self-reliance

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Transcendental Beliefs

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whos Beliefs are God is everywhere – in Nature and Man

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Transcendental Beliefs

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whos Beliefs are All objects are miniature versions of the universe

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Transcendental Beliefs

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whos Beliefs are to Unlike the Puritans, who humans as inherently evil, transcendentalists saw humans and nature as possessing an innate goodness.

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Transcendental Beliefs

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whos His father owned a pencil factory

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Henry David Thoreau

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who and John set up a school in 1838 but it collapsed a few years later after John became ill

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Henry David Thoreau

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who Over the years his famous work Walden has inspired many naturalists, environmentalists, and writers.

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Henry David Thoreau

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whos attitudes and studies of nature were radical for the time period, but today many consider him the “father of environmentalism.”

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Henry David Thoreau

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who wrote “Walden, or Life in the Woods”
“Civil Disobedience”

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Henry David Thoreau

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who Went on to Harvard divinity school → Became a Unitarian minister

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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who 1829 married Ellen Tucker, who died a few years later of tuberculosis

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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whos wifes death caused religious doubt, which resulted in his resignation from the clergy

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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who In 1840s founded & co-edited the literary magazine The Dial, w/ Margaret Fuller

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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who was the official publication of Transcendentalists until 1844

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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who Published two volumes of essays in 1841 and 1844 including “Self-Reliance,” which is among his best-known works

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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what said “There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide…”

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“Self-Reliance”

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what said “For nonconformity the world whips you with its displeasure.”

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“Self-Reliance”

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what said “To be great is to be misunderstood.”

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“Self-Reliance”

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what said “What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.”

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“Self-Reliance”

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what said “I went to 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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“Walden, or Life in the Woods”

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what said “Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand.”

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“Walden, or Life in the Woods”

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what said “Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.”

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“Walden, or Life in the Woods”

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what said “If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.”

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“Walden, or Life in the Woods”

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what said “Men have become the tools of their tools.”

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“Walden, or Life in the Woods”

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what said essay urging passive, nonviolent resistance to governmental policies to which an individual is morally opposed

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“Civil Disobedience”

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what was Written after Thoreau spent a night in jail for refusing to pay a poll tax.

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“Civil Disobedience”

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what Influenced individuals such as Ghandi and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

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“Civil Disobedience”

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what was writen when The $1.50 tax revenues went to the government which was waging, according to Thoreau, an unjust war against Mexico that would expand slavery.

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“Civil Disobedience”

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What is intuition?

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gut feeling

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Define Romanticism:

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a literary movement that is dramatic and entertaining emphasizing inspiration, subjectivity, and the primacy of the individual. (self-reliance)

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3 subcategories of Romanticism:

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Dark/Gothic, Fireside, Transcendentalism

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What century did Romanticism begin?

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19th → 1800’s

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Define sublime:

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of such excellence, grandeur, or beauty as to inspire great admiration or awe

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Where do the Romantics look for truth?

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Nature

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Romantics value:

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less-religious, nature, self-reliance, innocence in materialistics, native, simplicity, mindfulness, non-materialistic

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What ends Romanticism:

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Civil War, 1861

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Rhythm of Prose mimics:

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human speech

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How do you get Rhythm of Prose in your writing?

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Vary sentence length → short sentences = emphasis

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Parlour Soldier:

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not engaging with life “Battle of Fate” → “Back-Seat Driver”, “Armchair QB”

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city doll

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fail, give up, complain

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sturdy lad

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stable, well-respected, lands on his feet like a cat, brave & successful, faces failure & tries again. They have their life together and organized

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Why do we need to retain the Spirit of Infancy in adulthood?

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To keep us young & shed our years, so we can admire nature and truly see it. The pile on of years takes away the enjoyment & awe. → stars: stars in the sky everyday, we don’t care.