English Quiz 1
What mistake do people make regarding their own thoughts?
They don't give themselves enough credit, they give it to everyone else.
How can we learn from infants?
They have more comfort and courage to live as they want showing us the same.
Explain the meaning of this quote, "It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it."
They say stop listening to other people, trust what is inside of you and best for you.
How were the actions of Moses, Plato, and Milton examplesto be followed and why?
They took books and traditions and considered them meaningless. They did not speak what other men that they read though instead they spoke what they thought.
According to Emerson, what does God expect from us?
To have courage and live up to our full potential
Explain the meaning of this quote, "What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think."
What I'm doing is right and if other people don't like it or can't approve they don't care.
Explain the meaning of this quote, "The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks."
When you need to get somewhere in life when you are good ship/best life that is going to face challengers and have zigzags. In life you get around problems no matter the obstacle.
Explain Emerson's meaning when he states: "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin (a mischievous creature) of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines."
With to much consistency your not going to live life fully and won't be creative and you will be to predictable which will make you foolish.
Define Aster
a plant of the daisy family that has bright rayed flowers, typically of purple or pink
Define Bowers
a pleasant shady place under trees or climbing plants in a garden or wood
Define Grove
a small wood, orchard, or group of trees
Define sloth
reluctance to work or make an effort; laziness
Explain the meaning of this quote, "...envy is ignorance; imitation is suicide."
Don't be jealous if your going to be jealous your ignorant and short changing yourself; if your imitating someone you destroy your own potential and capable of doing.
Explain the meaning of this quote, "...for the inmost in due time becomes the outmost."
Don't hide your gifts/bury what's good, talented. The in most should become the outmost and shared with the world.
Explain the meaning of this quote, "In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts."
Don't reject or undervalue/underestimate what you think of Saying you could of though of that and have (inventions).
Explain the meaning of this quote,"...infancy conforms to nobody."
From infancy, the baby is most pure because it hasn't been ntouched by society. The older you get society has more of a negative impact on us.
Explain the meaning of this quote, "But do your work, and I shall know you."
The only way people are going to know who you really are and true to yourself is from the hard work that you do. They think life is about hard work which is being you.
Define Glen
a narrow valley
Define Idle
not active or in use
Define Chide
scold or rebuke
How does Emerson define genius?
you don't need anyone else's opinion in order for you to live fully. You can be true to yourself, if you know what's true for you, you know what's true for everyone else. Recognizing truth.
Explain the meaning of this quote, "I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead institutions."
Capitulate is to give up or surrender to the police/labels that came before (plug in).
Explain the meaning of this quote, "I do not wish to expiate, but to live."
I do not want to live my life feeling guilty and having to apologize and in order to live my life the right way don't apologize.
Explain the meaning of this quote, "Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist."
If you want to be a real man or woman you have to be a nonconformist (don't conform to society).
What does Emerson mean when he says,"for the inmost in due time becomes the outmost"?
In order to be a true Transcendental you have to be yourself and show it.
Explain the line: "He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time."
In order to be truly happy with the natural world you have to live in the present moment. Appreciate your natural surroundings because it should have an effect on you.
Explain the meaning of this quote, "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."
It reflects if you know the truth inside you is real and should be the truth for everyone that's a genius God is in all of our souls.
How does Emerson use "plot of ground" as a metaphor?
It's used to interpret their mindset on something no matter what it takes they will do what they have to do.
Explain the meaning of this quote, "...but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude."
Nobody around me is going to influence who I am or want to be I am not going to let the commotion around me affect my peacefulness. You rise above the commotion & become at peace.
Explain the meaning of this quote, "Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members."
Society is a verse at what we want to do.
Explain the meaning of this quote, "Speak what you think now in hard words, and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said today."
Speak what is on your mind, don't worry what other people are going to think and what you say tomorrow you can always change tomorrow.
Explain the meaning of this quote, "I ought to...speak the rude truth in all ways."
The person who speaks the truth all the time will be consequences but just deal with and don't worry about what anything thinks.
