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"I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours"
... is contained in Henry David Thoreau's ...
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Which philosopher does James O'Toole draw important life lessons from in the 2005 business book "Creating the Good Life"?
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Who said "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation?"
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"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them"
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Who first defined a category of thoughts known as "transcendental?"
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If cats could write poetry, in Henry Beard's Poetry for Cats: The Definitive Anthology of Distinguished Feline Verse, whose cat might have submitted an entry entitled "Meow of Myself," which begins:
"I situate myself, and seat myself,
And where you recline I shall recline,
For every armchair belonging to you as good as belongs to me."
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Who advocated freedom of belief in the treatise The Freedom of a Christian?
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How long did Henry David Thoreau live at Walden Pond?
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Henry David Thoreau once worked in the family business which was a.....
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What American writer said, "A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rare. For the most part we miss the hue and fragrance of the thought; as if we could be satisfied with the dews of the morning or evening without their colors, or the heavens without their azure."
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Which transcendentalist author wrote Slavery in Massachusetts to express outrage resulting from the Fugitive Slave Law?
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To whom did Herman Melville write: "I shall leave the world, I feel, with more satisfaction for having come to know you. Knowing you persuades me more than the Bible of our immortality"?
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Who wrote The Trumpet of the Swan?
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Which writer wrote., " The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation."
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Which author and abolitionist refused to pay a tax and spent a short time in jail?
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What writer served as handyman and assistant to Ralph Waldo Emerson?
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Fill in the missing name in this excerpt from John Updike's Bech A Book:
"_________, it happened, was Bech's favorite American author, in whom he felt united the strengths that were later to go the separate ways of Dreiser and James. Throughout dinner, back at the hotel, he lectured Petrescu about him. 'No one,' Bech said, ... 'more courageously faced our native terror. He went for it right between its wide-set little pig eyes, and it shattered his genius like a lance.' ...
'You do not consider,' Petrescu said, 'that Hawthorne also went between the eyes? And the laconic Ambroce Bierce?' ...
'Hawthorne blinked,' Bech pronounced, 'and Bierce squinted.'"
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!["My publisher has been writing from time to time to ask what disposition should be made of the copies of [<i>title omitted</i>:] still on hand . . . So I had them all sent to me here . . . 706 copies out of an edition of 1000."
"Sitting beside the inert mass of my works, I take up pen to-night to record what thought or experience I have had, with as much satisfaction as ever. Indeed, I believe that this result is more inspiring and better for me than if a thousand had bought my wares. It affects my privacy less and leaves me freer."
<i>Which famous author penned these lines?</i>](http://photo.goodreads.com/questions/1256835976p1/67044.jpg)
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"My publisher has been writing from time to time to ask what disposition should be made of the copies of [title omitted:] still on hand . . . So I had them all sent to me here . . . 706 copies out of an edition of 1000."
"Sitting beside the inert mass of my works, I take up pen to-night to record what thought or experience I have had, with as much satisfaction as ever. Indeed, I believe that this result is more inspiring and better for me than if a thousand had bought my wares. It affects my privacy less and leaves me freer."
Which famous author penned these lines?
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