The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume 2Houghton, Mifflin, 1893 |
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... Better if they had been born in the open pasture and suckled by a wolf , that they might have seen with clearer eyes what field they were called to labor in . Who made them serfs of the soil ? Why should they eat their sixty acres ...
... Better if they had been born in the open pasture and suckled by a wolf , that they might have seen with clearer eyes what field they were called to labor in . Who made them serfs of the soil ? Why should they eat their sixty acres ...
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... better , hardly so well , qualified for an in- structor as youth , for it has not profited so much as it has lost . One may almost doubt if the wisest man has learned anything of absolute value by living . Practically , the old have no ...
... better , hardly so well , qualified for an in- structor as youth , for it has not profited so much as it has lost . One may almost doubt if the wisest man has learned anything of absolute value by living . Practically , the old have no ...
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... better methods than other men ? When a man is warmed by the several modes which I have described , what does he want next ? Surely not more warmth of the same kind , as more and richer food , larger and more splendid houses , finer and ...
... better methods than other men ? When a man is warmed by the several modes which I have described , what does he want next ? Surely not more warmth of the same kind , as more and richer food , larger and more splendid houses , finer and ...
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... better known . I deter- mined to go into business at once , and not wait to acquire the usual capital , using such slender means as I had already got . My purpose in going to Walden Pond was not to live cheaply nor to live dearly there ...
... better known . I deter- mined to go into business at once , and not wait to acquire the usual capital , using such slender means as I had already got . My purpose in going to Walden Pond was not to live cheaply nor to live dearly there ...
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... better than wooden horses to hang the clean clothes on . Every day our garments become more as- similated to ourselves , receiving the impress of the wearer's character , until we hesitate to lay them aside , without such delay and ...
... better than wooden horses to hang the clean clothes on . Every day our garments become more as- similated to ourselves , receiving the impress of the wearer's character , until we hesitate to lay them aside , without such delay and ...
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Página 143 - 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 reduce it to its lowest terms...
Página 52 - What mean ye, that ye use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge? As I live, saith the Lord God, ye shall not have occasion any more to use this proverb in Israel. Behold, all souls are mine ; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die.
Página 499 - In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness. If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost ; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
Página 147 - I should only give a few pulls at the parish bell-rope, as for a fire, that is, without setting the bell, there is hardly a man on his farm in the outskirts of Concord, notwithstanding that press of engagements which was his excuse so many times this morning, nor a boy, nor a woman, I might...
Página 212 - I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will. Solitude is not measured by the miles of space that intervene between a man and his fellows.
Página 153 - And we are enabled to apprehend at all what is sublime and noble only by the perpetual instilling and drenching of the reality that surrounds us.
Página 489 - At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be infinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable.
Página 143 - 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.
Página 498 - I learned this, at least, by my experiment ; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Página 211 - I only know myself as a human entity ; the scene, so to speak, of thoughts and affections ; and am sensible of a certain doubleness by which I can stand as remote from myself as from another.