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We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves
awake, not by mechanical aids, but by an infinite
expectation of the dawn, which does not forsake us in
our soundest sleep. I know of no more encouraging
fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate
his life by a conscious endeavor. It is something to be
able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue,
and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far
more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere
and medium through which we look, which morally
we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the
highest of arts. Every man is tasked to make his life,
even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his
most elevated and critical hour. If we refused, or
rather used up, such paltry information as we get, the
oracles would distinctly inform us how this might be
done.
I went to the woods because I wished to live
deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life,
and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and
not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I
did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear;
nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was
quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out
all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-
like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad
swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and
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Which two techniques does the first sentence of the second paragraph contain?
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