Transcendental+Concepts+in+Literature

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"Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the machine" (p. 373) || "Be a hero in strife" (p. 346) || pg. 364 ||
 * Concept and Explanation || Author/Reading || Supporting Quotes and Page Numbers ||
 * Self-Reliance || Emerson ||  ||
 * || Thoreau/Walden ||  ||
 * || Thoreau/CD || "The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right." (p. 372)
 * || Longfellow || “Still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait” (p. 346) ||
 * Nature || Emerson ||  ||
 * || Thoreau/Walden || “Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature, and not be thrown off the track by every nutshell and mosquito’s wing that falls on the rails” (385). ||
 * || Thoreau/CD || " If a plant cannot live according to its nature; it dies; and so a man. " (p. 376) ||
 * || Longfellow ||  ||
 * Nonconformity || Emerson || "What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think." (p. 365) ||
 * || Thoreau/Walden || " 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." (p.390) ||
 * || Thoreau/CD || " we should be men first then subjects" ||
 * || Longfellow || "Be not like dumb,driven cattle." (p.346)
 * Intuition || Emerson || "the only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong is what is against it..."
 * || Logfellow || "Lives of great men . . . sublime" pg 346 ||
 * || Thoreau/CD || “The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.” P.372 ||

"envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide" (p. 364) || "Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal." (p. 345) || "No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature" (p. 364) || Type in the content of your new page here.
 * Individualism || Longfellow || "Be not like dumb, driven cattle! Be a hero in the strife." ||
 * || Emerson || "but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness of independence" (P.366)
 * || Thoreau/Walden || “ I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately…” (p. 383) ||
 * || Thoreau/CD || "If a plant cannot live according to its nature; it dies; and so a man" p. 376 ||
 * || Longfellow || "Be a hero in the strife." (p. 346) ||
 * Solitude || Emerson || " it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude..." (p.365) ||
 * || Thoreau/Walden || "I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life." (p. 383) ||
 * || Thoreau/Walden || "I went into 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." (p.383) ||
 * || Thoreau/CD || "I was put into a jail...for one night; and, as I stood considering the walls of solid stone, and the door...which strained the light..." (p. 375) ||
 * || Thoreau || "I went to the woods because i wished to live deliberately" pg 383 ||
 * Simplicity || Emerson ||  ||
 * || Thoreau/Walden || "simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!" (p.383) ||
 * || Thoreau/CD || "'Your money or your life,' why should I be in haste to give it my money?" (p.376) ||
 * || Longfellow ||  ||
 * Carpe Diem || Emerson || "Accept the place the divine providence has got for you" (P. 365) ||
 * || Thoreau/Walden ||  ||
 * || Emerson || " accept the place the divine province has set for you" ||
 * || Longfellow || "Still like muffled drums are beating. Funeral marches to the grave." (p. 346) ||
 * || Longfellow || "But to act, that each tomorrow find us farther than today." (P.344)
 * Over-Soul || Emerson || “Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world” (p. 364) ||
 * || Thoreau/Walden ||  ||
 * || Thoreau/CD ||  ||
 * || Longfellow || "not enjoyment, and not sorrow, is our destined end or way, But to act, that each tomorrow finds us farther than today" (p. 345) ||
 * Natural State of Man || Emerson ||  ||
 * || Thoreau/Walden || “Still we live meanly, like ants; though the fable tells us that we were long ago changed into men; like pygmies we fight with cranes….” (pg. 383) || ====== ====== ||  ||
 * || Thoreau/CD || "Thar government is best which governs least." (P. 370) ||
 * || Longfellow || "is our destined end or way" (p 345) ||
 * Anti-Tradition || Emerson ||  ||
 * || Thoreau/Walden ||  ||
 * || Thoreau/CD ||  ||
 * || Longfellow ||  ||
 * Divinity Within || Emerson || "Accept the place the devine providence has found for you.." (p. 364)
 * || Thoreau/Walden ||  ||
 * || Thoreau/CD ||  ||
 * || Longfellow ||  ||