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I feel that I have the stuff to do it in me.

I would love to work and beg my way to Rome if it cost me ten or fifteen years of my life." Thoreau replied to this proposal that such a tour had been one of his own early dreams, but that he had outlived it.

He had now "retired from all external activity in disgust, and his life was more Brahminical, Artesian-well, Inner-Temple like." So the scheme, which had secured Bishop McCloskey's approbation, although he had forcibly represented to young Hecker that to go absolutely destitute of money, and dependent for all things upon alms, would be impossible, was presently shelved.

It was but one of the diversions with which certain souls, not yet enlightened as to their true course, nor arrived at the abandonment of themselves to Divine Providence, are amused.