Walden and On the Duty of Civil Disobedience (edit title/settings)

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• Walden Pond: Add a description of this character.
• Brister
• John Field
• Adam

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• ““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.””

• ““In the long run men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high.””

• ““The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats. A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. There is no play in them, for this comes after work. But it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.””

• “, "I cannot for an instant recognize that political organization as my government which is the slave's government also."”

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• The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.

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• Who knows but if men constructed their dwellings with their own hands, and provided food for themselves and families simply and honestly enough, the poetic faculty would be universally developed, as birds universally sing when they are so engaged?

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• I trust that none will stretch the seams in putting on the coat, for it may do good service to him whom it fits.

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• crushed and smothered under its load, creeping down the road of life, pushing before it a barn seventy-five feet by forty,

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• I hewed the main timbers six inches square, most of the studs on two sides only, and the rafters and floor timbers on one side, leaving the rest of the bark on, so that they were just as straight and much stronger than sawed ones.

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• Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.

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• I have thus a tight shingled and plastered house, ten feet wide by fifteen long, and eight-feet posts, with a garret and a closet, a large window on each side, two trap doors, one door at the end, and a brick fireplace opposite.

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• I, on my side, require of every writer, first or last, a simple and sincere account of his own life,

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• Concord
• New England
• Heaven
• Lincoln
• Boston
• America
• New York
• White Pond
• Fair Haven

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Henry David Thoreau (Author)
2. Paul Lauter

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• Dewey: 818.308

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• Books › Literature & Fiction › World Literature › United States › Collections & Readers
• Books › Literature & Fiction › World Literature › United States › 19th Century
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Authors, A-Z › ( T ) › Thoreau, Henry David
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Essays