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Rh The Care of the Body—The Best Medicine—Life Diversion and Amusement—Composition—The Sound of a Horn—Boarding—Thoroughfares of Vice—Reproof—An Interpretation of Emerson's "Sphinx"—Homeliness in Books—Aubrey—The Loneliness of our Life—Seriousness—Magnanimity—Moral Reflections in a Work on Agriculture—Tea-Kettle and Cow-Bell—Plowing—Eclipsing Napoleon's Career—The True Reformer—Seeing—Friendship's Steadfastness—The Gods side with no Man—A Profane Expression—The Silence of the Woods—The Civilization of the Woods—The Oppression of the House—Shoulders—Approaching a Great Nature—The Use of a Cane—Wachusett—Navigation—The Pine—Westward Ho!—The Echo of the Sabbath Bell heard in the Woods—Books—The Laws of Menu—A Vermonter—The Moon through a Telescope—Immemorial Custom—An Unchangeable Morning Light—The Book of the Hindoos—History and Biography—The Form of a Mountain—Art and Nature—The Strains of a Flute—Earnestness—Afternoon—Various Sounds of the Crickets—The Work of Genius—The Idea of Man in the Hindoo Scripture—The Hindoo's Conception of Creation—Taste and Poetry—The Austerity of the Hindoos—The Only Obligation—Seines in the River—Moonlight the Best Restorer of Antiquity—A Poem to be called "Concord"—A Boat floating amid Reflections—Poetry—Directions for setting out Peach Trees and Grape-Vines—Experience at the Harvard Library—The English Poets—Saxon Poetry—Character—The Inward Morning—Music and Character—The Form of the Wind—Ancient Scotch Poetry—My Redeeming Qualities—The Smoke from an Invisible Farmhouse—Latent Eloquence—Ghosts—Sacred Forests—Thoughts of a Life at Walden—The Rich Man—The Trade of Life—True Greatness—Chaucer—Snowflakes—Books of Natural History.

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Good Courage—The Church the Hospital for Men's Souls—Chaucer—Popped Corn—The Literary Style of the