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... feel that no practice is better or readier than the keeping of a journal , a daily record of things thought , seen , and felt . Such a record he began soon after leaving college , and ( being one of a thou- sand in this respect as in ...
... feel that no practice is better or readier than the keeping of a journal , a daily record of things thought , seen , and felt . Such a record he began soon after leaving college , and ( being one of a thou- sand in this respect as in ...
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... feel deeply affronted by this un- gallant mention . It is perhaps the only one in the journal ( by its nature restrict- ed to matters interesting to the author ) , while there are multitudes of passages to prove that Thoreau's aversion ...
... feel deeply affronted by this un- gallant mention . It is perhaps the only one in the journal ( by its nature restrict- ed to matters interesting to the author ) , while there are multitudes of passages to prove that Thoreau's aversion ...
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... feel- ing . He is never in the way.1 Moreover , you can say to a woodchuck anything that comes into your head , without fear of giving offense ; a less important con- sideration than the other , no doubt , wood- chucks as a class not ...
... feel- ing . He is never in the way.1 Moreover , you can say to a woodchuck anything that comes into your head , without fear of giving offense ; a less important con- sideration than the other , no doubt , wood- chucks as a class not ...
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... feel himself except in opposition . He wanted a fallacy to expose , a blunder to pillory , I may say required a little sense of victory , a roll of the drum , to call his powers into full exercise . . . . It seemed as if his first ...
... feel himself except in opposition . He wanted a fallacy to expose , a blunder to pillory , I may say required a little sense of victory , a roll of the drum , to call his powers into full exercise . . . . It seemed as if his first ...
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... feel that perhaps he was in dan- ger of being too much so for his own pro- fit . Possibly it is not quite wholesome , possibly , if one dares to say it , it begets a something like priggishness , for the soul to be keyed up continually ...
... feel that perhaps he was in dan- ger of being too much so for his own pro- fit . Possibly it is not quite wholesome , possibly , if one dares to say it , it begets a something like priggishness , for the soul to be keyed up continually ...
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Página 258 - He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul. All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously, but luckily : when he describes anything, you more than see it, you feel it too.
Página 646 - But this I confess unto thee, that after the way which they call heresy, so worship I the God of my fathers...
Página 265 - Knowledge and Wisdom, far from being one, Have ofttimes no connection. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men ; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
Página 341 - To him that hath shall be given ; and from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath.
Página 559 - It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.
Página 657 - Till, like the certain wands of Jacob's wit, Their verses tallied. Easy was the task : A thousand handicraftsmen wore the mask Of Poesy. Ill-fated, impious race ! That blasphemed the bright Lyrist to his face, And did not know it, — no, they went about, Holding a poor, decrepit standard out, Marked with most flimsy mottoes, and in large The name of one Boileau...
Página 9 - And in poetry, no less than in life, he is * a beautiful and ineffectual angel, beating in the void his luminous wings in vain.
Página 265 - To try and approach truth on one side after another, not to strive or cry, nor to persist in pressing forward, on any one side, with violence and self-will — it is only thus, it seems to me, that mortals may hope to gain any vision of the mysterious Goddess, whom we shall never see except in outline, but only thus even in outline.
Página 10 - ... he did not feel himself except in opposition. He wanted a fallacy to expose, a blunder to pillory, I may say required a little sense of victory, a roll of the drum, to call his powers into full exercise. It cost him nothing to say No; indeed he found it much easier than to say Yes. It seemed as if his first instinct on hearing a proposition was to controvert it, so impatient was he of the limitations of our daily thought. This habit, of course, is a little chilling to the social affections; and...
Página 109 - The word unto the prophet spoken Was writ on tables yet unbroken; The word by seers or sibyls told In groves of oak, or fanes of gold, Still floats upon the morning wind, Still whispers to the willing mind. One accent of the Holy Ghost The heedless world hath never lost.