id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt thoreau-walden_006-1854 thoreau thoreau-walden_006-1854 1854 .txt text/plain 3475 133 75 Sometimes, when I compare myself with other men, it seems as if I were more favored by the gods than they, beyond any deserts that I am conscious of; as if I had a warrant and surety at their hands which my fellows have not, and were especially guided and guarded. Not to many men surely, the depot, the post-office, the bar-room, the meeting-house, the school-house, the grocery, Beacon Hill, or the Five Points, where men most congregate, but to the perennial source of our life, whence in all our experience we have found that to issue, as the willow stands near the water and sends out its roots in that direction. cache/thoreau-walden_006-1854.txt txt/thoreau-walden_006-1854.txt