The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume 2Houghton, Mifflin, 1893 |
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... muskrats . A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind . There is no play in them , for this comes after work . But it is a char- acteristic of wisdom not to do ...
... muskrats . A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind . There is no play in them , for this comes after work . But it is a char- acteristic of wisdom not to do ...
Page 105
... muskrat will gnaw his third leg off to be free . No wonder man has lost his elasticity . How often he is at a dead set ! " Sir , if I may be so bold , what do you mean by a dead set ? " If you are a seer , whenever you meet a man you ...
... muskrat will gnaw his third leg off to be free . No wonder man has lost his elasticity . How often he is at a dead set ! " Sir , if I may be so bold , what do you mean by a dead set ? " If you are a seer , whenever you meet a man you ...
Page 262
... musk - rats in the river meadows ; under the grove of elms and buttonwoods in the other horizon was a village of busy men , as curious to me as if they had been prairie dogs , each sitting at the mouth of its burrow , or run- ning over ...
... musk - rats in the river meadows ; under the grove of elms and buttonwoods in the other horizon was a village of busy men , as curious to me as if they had been prairie dogs , each sitting at the mouth of its burrow , or run- ning over ...
Page 289
... muskrats and minks leave their traces about it , and occasionally a travelling mud - turtle visits it . Sometimes , when I pushed off my boat in the morning , I disturbed a great mud - turtle which had secreted himself under the boat in ...
... muskrats and minks leave their traces about it , and occasionally a travelling mud - turtle visits it . Sometimes , when I pushed off my boat in the morning , I disturbed a great mud - turtle which had secreted himself under the boat in ...
Page 420
... muskrats dwelt , and raised their cabins high above the ice , though none could be seen abroad when I crossed it . Walden , being like the rest usually bare of snow , or with only shallow and in- terrupted drifts on it , was my yard ...
... muskrats dwelt , and raised their cabins high above the ice , though none could be seen abroad when I crossed it . Walden , being like the rest usually bare of snow , or with only shallow and in- terrupted drifts on it , was my yard ...
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Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.