The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume 2Houghton, Mifflin, 1893 |
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... merely what he has heard of other men's lives ; some such account as he would send to his kindred from a distant land ; for if he has lived sincerely , it must have been in a distant land to me . Per- haps these pages are more ...
... merely what he has heard of other men's lives ; some such account as he would send to his kindred from a distant land ; for if he has lived sincerely , it must have been in a distant land to me . Per- haps these pages are more ...
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... mere ignorance and mis- take , are so occupied with the factitious cares and superfluously coarse labors of life that its finer fruits cannot be plucked by them . Their fingers , from excessive toil , are too clumsy and tremble too much ...
... mere ignorance and mis- take , are so occupied with the factitious cares and superfluously coarse labors of life that its finer fruits cannot be plucked by them . Their fingers , from excessive toil , are too clumsy and tremble too much ...
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... mere smoke of opinion , which some had trusted for a cloud that would sprinkle fertilizing rain on their fields . What old people say you cannot do you try and find that you can . Old deeds for old people , and new deeds for new . Old ...
... mere smoke of opinion , which some had trusted for a cloud that would sprinkle fertilizing rain on their fields . What old people say you cannot do you try and find that you can . Old deeds for old people , and new deeds for new . Old ...
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... are really necessaries of life in some circles , the most helpless and diseased , which in others are luxuries merely , and in others still are entirely unknown . The whole ground of human life seems to some to ECONOMY 17.
... are really necessaries of life in some circles , the most helpless and diseased , which in others are luxuries merely , and in others still are entirely unknown . The whole ground of human life seems to some to ECONOMY 17.
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... merely by conformity , practi- cally as their fathers did , and are in no sense the progenitors of a nobler race of men . But why do men degenerate ever ? What makes families run out ? What is the nature of the luxury which enervates ...
... merely by conformity , practi- cally as their fathers did , and are in no sense the progenitors of a nobler race of men . But why do men degenerate ever ? What makes families run out ? What is the nature of the luxury which enervates ...
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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.