“In the one case there is all the world to advise you, in the other there is no one to advise you but yourself.”
This quote is saying that there are two worlds that you can choose from, you can be in the world where other people decide things for you or you can be in the world where you are in control and make your own decisions. Some people never fully live their lives because they aren’t deciding what to do with their life they’re letting someone else decide for them. But the people who make there own decisions live full and happy lives because they have done all the things they want to do without someone saying no. In order to live your life you have to be in control of it.
“To set down such choice experiences that my own writings may inspire me and at last I may make wholes of parts.”
This quote is stating that for him writing is his passion and that is makes him a whole as a person. We always hear people say that they feel like there is a whole inside of them and that something is missing. Well, for Thoreau writing is the thing that makes him whole. Also, the experiences that he has had have also made him whole. He chose to go into the woods and live like that, and by doing these things he is completed.
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