 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...  The Writings of Henry David Thoreau - Página 499de Henry David Thoreau - 1893Visualização completa - Sobre este livro
 | Jabez Thomas Sunderland, Brooke Herford, Frederick B. Mott - 1890 - 676 páginas
...put foundations under them." Aye, the boulders of truths eternal. Of any earnest man he declares, " In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws...solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness." Thus grandly doth he "justify the ways of God to man." He says with ever-increasing emphasis: If life... | |
 | First Unitarian Church of Oakland, Calif. Ladies - 1891 - 96 páginas
...a naughty world. — Merchant of I 'enice. The only way to have a friend is to be one. — Emerson. If you have built castles in the air your work need not be lost; that is where they should be built; now put foundations under them. —riwreau. The fire-fly only shines when on the wing.... | |
 | William Dwight Whitney - 1892 - 272 páginas
...under the creaking wain Hangs his head in the lazy heat, while onward the horses toil and strain. 6. If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost ; that is where they should be ; now put foundations under them. 7. God gives thee youth but once; 8. He who has a thousand... | |
 | Theodora B. Wilson, James Clarence Harvey - 1892 - 382 páginas
...other, if we help each other, the future holds but little we need fear. You know what Thoreau says : ' If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost. That is where they should be : now put foundations under them.' " He did not speak, but gently drew her head down to his... | |
 | William Dwight Whitney - 1892 - 284 páginas
...under the creaking wain Hangs his head in the lazy heat, while onward the horses toil and strain. ' 6. If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost ; that is where they should be ; now put foundations under them. 7. God gives thee youth but once ; 8. He who has a thousand... | |
 | 1894 - 308 páginas
...endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unimagined in common hours. In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws...solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness. — Тliог с аи. 62 Museum * RAINY DAYS WE would not have our young people suppose for a moment... | |
 | Maturin Murray Ballou - 1894 - 604 páginas
...Charming Alnaschar visions ! it is the happy privilege of youth to construct you. — Thackeray. If yon have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where "they should be. Now put the foundations under them. — Tlioreau. A sigh can shatter a castle in the air.... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1897 - 318 páginas
...in his favor in a more liberal sense, and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings. In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws...air, your work need not be lost ; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. It is a ridiculous demand which England and America... | |
 | James N. Patrick - 1898 - 238 páginas
...father's wisdom than he that has a great deal left him does to his father's care. — Wm. Penn. 7. If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost ; that is where they should be built ; now put foundations under them. — Thoreau. 8. A man's first care should be to avoid... | |
 | 1898 - 200 páginas
...business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies closely at hand. — CARLYLE. If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be; now put foundations under them. —THOREAU. I approve of a youth that has something of the... | |
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