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Page 49
... whilst death is in the pots of the wretched , that it behooves a good man to walk with tenderness and heed amidst so much suffering . I only point in passing to the order of the universe , which makes a rotation , not like the coarse ...
... whilst death is in the pots of the wretched , that it behooves a good man to walk with tenderness and heed amidst so much suffering . I only point in passing to the order of the universe , which makes a rotation , not like the coarse ...
Page 58
... whilst we live , than encounter these lean kine . Man should emancipate man . He does so , not by jamming him , but by distancing him . The nearer my friend , the more spacious is our realm , the more diameter our spheres have . It is a ...
... whilst we live , than encounter these lean kine . Man should emancipate man . He does so , not by jamming him , but by distancing him . The nearer my friend , the more spacious is our realm , the more diameter our spheres have . It is a ...
Page 75
... Whilst these forces act on us from the outside and we are not in their counsel , we call them Fate . The animal in- stincts guide the animal as gravity governs the stone , and in man that bias or direction of his constitution is often ...
... Whilst these forces act on us from the outside and we are not in their counsel , we call them Fate . The animal in- stincts guide the animal as gravity governs the stone , and in man that bias or direction of his constitution is often ...
Page 88
... whilst the massive might of ideas is irresistible at last . Whence does the knowledge come ? Where is the source of power ? The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men . and not on iron or 88 PERPETUAL FORCES .
... whilst the massive might of ideas is irresistible at last . Whence does the knowledge come ? Where is the source of power ? The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men . and not on iron or 88 PERPETUAL FORCES .
Page 105
... whilst in Na- ture is none at all , God keeping out of sight , and known only as pure law , though resistless . Châ- teaubriand said , with some irreverence of phrase , If God made man in his image , man has paid him well back . " Si ...
... whilst in Na- ture is none at all , God keeping out of sight , and known only as pure law , though resistless . Châ- teaubriand said , with some irreverence of phrase , If God made man in his image , man has paid him well back . " Si ...
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Page 96 - But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain light of all our day, Are yet a master light of all our seeing; Uphold us, cherish, and have power to make Our noisy years seem moments in the being Of the eternal Silence: truths that wake, To perish never...
Page 98 - Though love repine, and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply, — "Tis man's perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die.
Page 229 - So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, / can.
Page 142 - ... lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained, and he only holds the key to his own secret. By your tampering and thwarting and too much governing he may be hindered from his end and kept out of his own. Respect the child. Wait and see the new product of Nature. Nature loves analogies, but not repetitions. Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.
Page 439 - ... as if Mr. Thoreau had better rights in his land than he. They felt, too, the superiority of character which addressed all men with a native authority. Indian relics abound in Concord, — arrow-heads, stone chisels, pestles, and fragments of pottery; and on the river-bank, large heaps of clam-shells and ashes mark spots which the savages frequented. These, and every circumstance touching the Indian, were important in his eyes. His visits to Maine were chiefly for love of the Indian. He had the...
Page 350 - If the assembly was disorderly, it was picturesque. Madmen, madwomen, men with beards, Dunkers, Muggletonians, Come-outers, Groaners, Agrarians, Seventh-day Baptists, Quakers, Abolitionists, Calvinists, Unitarians and Philosophers, — all came successively to the top, and seized their moment, if not their hour, wherein to chide, or pray, or preach, or protest.
Page 427 - ... books, and assured him that he, Thoreau, and not the librarian, was the proper custodian of these. In short, the President found the petitioner so formidable, and the rules getting to look so ridiculous, that he ended by giving him a privilege which in his hands proved unlimited thereafter. ' No truer American existed than Thoreau. His preference of his country and condition was genuine, and his aversation from English and European manners and tastes almost reached contempt.
Page 447 - The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length the middle-aged man concludes to build a wood-shed with them." "The locust z-ing." "Devil's-needles zigzagging along the Nut-Meadow brook." "Sugar is not so sweet to the palate as sound to the healthy ear.