The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume 2Houghton, Mifflin, 1893 |
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... called comforts of life , are not only not indispensable , but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind . With respect to luxuries and comforts , the wisest have ever lived a more simple and meagre life than the poor . The ...
... called comforts of life , are not only not indispensable , but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind . With respect to luxuries and comforts , the wisest have ever lived a more simple and meagre life than the poor . The ...
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... called . It is not barbarous merely be- cause the printing is skin - deep and unalter able . I cannot believe that our factory system is the best mode by which men may get clothing . The condition of the operatives is becoming every day ...
... called . It is not barbarous merely be- cause the printing is skin - deep and unalter able . I cannot believe that our factory system is the best mode by which men may get clothing . The condition of the operatives is becoming every day ...
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... called , soon discovers this , for the publicans presume him to be a Sardanapa- lus , and if he resigned himself to their ten- der mercies he would soon be completely emasculated . I think that in the railroad car we are inclined to ...
... called , soon discovers this , for the publicans presume him to be a Sardanapa- lus , and if he resigned himself to their ten- der mercies he would soon be completely emasculated . I think that in the railroad car we are inclined to ...
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... called rich and refined life is a thing jumped at , and I do not get on in the en joyment of the fine arts which adorn it , my attention being wholly occupied with the jump ; for I remember that the greatest genuine leap , due to human ...
... called rich and refined life is a thing jumped at , and I do not get on in the en joyment of the fine arts which adorn it , my attention being wholly occupied with the jump ; for I remember that the greatest genuine leap , due to human ...
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... fine one . When I called to see it he was not at home . I walked about the outside , at first unobserved from within , the window was so deep and high . It was of small dimensions , with a peaked cottage roof , and ECONOMY 69.
... fine one . When I called to see it he was not at home . I walked about the outside , at first unobserved from within , the window was so deep and high . It was of small dimensions , with a peaked cottage roof , and ECONOMY 69.
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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.