Can You Answer These Phrase and Thoreau Aphorisms Flashcards

Different aphorsims between Emerson and Thoreau

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"Goodness is the only investment that never fails."
Henry David Thoreau
"Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads."
Henry David Thoreau
"I should not talk so much about myself were there anybody else whom I knew as well."
Henry David Thoreau
"The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait until that other is ready."
Henry David Thoreau
"Hitch your wagon to a star"
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"That man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest."
Henry David Thoreau
"whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist"
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds"
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm"
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"There is properly no history, only biography"
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it."
Henry David Thoreau
"To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge."
Henry David Thoreau
I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of time...I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude."
Henry David Thoreau
"For nonconformity the world whips you with its displeasure."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Trust thyself; every heart vibrates to that iron string."
Ralph Waldo Emerson