Who said it – Emerson or Thoreau?
What work is it found in & what does it mean?
1. "To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society."
2. "To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature."
3. “It is remarkable how easily and insensibly we fall into a particular route, and make a beaten track for ourselves.”
4. “Nature never wears a mean appearance.”
5. “Envy is ignorance, imitation is suicide."
6. “The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.”
7. “Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.”
8. “What I must do is what concerns me, not what the people think.
9. “To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, - that is genius.”
10. “We should be men first, and subjects afterward.”
11. “Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!”
12. “Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.”
13. “That government is best which governs not at all.”
14. "Nature always wears the colors of the spirit."
15. “Our life is frittered away be details.”
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