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US Lit quotes
Need to know lines for final
11
Literature
Undergraduate 2
10/13/2017

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"here individuals ... are melted into a new race of men..."
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Letters from an American Farmer

de Crevecoeur
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"transparant eyeball"
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Nature

Emerson
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"Lives of great men all remind us/ We can make our lives sublime,/ And, departing, leave behind us/ Footprints on the sands of time."
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Psalm of Life

Longfellow
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"And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor Shall (never) be lifted"
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the Raven

Poe
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"Let your affairs be as 2or 3, not 100 or 1000... keep your accounts on your thumb nail."
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Walden

Thoreau
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"no despair so deep as the despair of a homeless man or woman. ...Drive(s) men to crime & women to shame"
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Garland (Lion's Paw)
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"7 Mad gods"
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Crane (Open Boat)
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"This man did not know cold. Possibly all (his)... generations had been ignorant... but the dog knew"
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London (To Build a Fire)
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"I should have called (Home) something you somehow didn't deserve"
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Frost (Death of Hired Man)
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"Do I dare disturb the universe?"
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Eliot (Prufrock)
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"I guess if all Japs were like you, there wouldn't have been a war"
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Buck (Enemy)
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