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Page 146
... institution of learn- ing , and on his way to don a cap and gown , gets suddenly thrown off his feet and swept aside by the voiceless magic of nature's doings . Thoreau tells us why he went to the woods to live : " I went to the woods ...
... institution of learn- ing , and on his way to don a cap and gown , gets suddenly thrown off his feet and swept aside by the voiceless magic of nature's doings . Thoreau tells us why he went to the woods to live : " I went to the woods ...
Page 227
... institutions , the de- feat of governments , the burial of civilizations . The supermovement does not mean a smooth sea always . It does mean that the human capacity and will , personally acting , or collectively , are both keyed to a ...
... institutions , the de- feat of governments , the burial of civilizations . The supermovement does not mean a smooth sea always . It does mean that the human capacity and will , personally acting , or collectively , are both keyed to a ...
Page 229
... institutions . Such social and political situations have often looked like finalities . But there are no finalities . newals always follow the crises times . Small signs of betterment at first appear , then new values begin to work ...
... institutions . Such social and political situations have often looked like finalities . But there are no finalities . newals always follow the crises times . Small signs of betterment at first appear , then new values begin to work ...
Page 238
... , statesmen , scholars have done so little for the last man that we may justly suspect that the controlling institutions of men , until this time , have suffered misdirection by some fatuity of the reason . 238 A COSMIC VIEW OF RELIGION .
... , statesmen , scholars have done so little for the last man that we may justly suspect that the controlling institutions of men , until this time , have suffered misdirection by some fatuity of the reason . 238 A COSMIC VIEW OF RELIGION .
Page 257
... institutions -these are superficial . The misunderstandings men now have are caused by lack of knowledge , and of acquaintance and the charity which is universal . Resemblances among men are more numerous , when we are able to see them ...
... institutions -these are superficial . The misunderstandings men now have are caused by lack of knowledge , and of acquaintance and the charity which is universal . Resemblances among men are more numerous , when we are able to see them ...
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Page 146 - I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life...
Page 146 - 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, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion.
Page 143 - To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady scene, Where things that own not man's dominion dwell, And mortal foot hath ne'er or rarely been ; To climb the trackless mountain all unseen, With the wild flock that never needs a fold ; Alone o'er steeps and foaming falls to lean ; This is not solitude ; 'tis but to hold Converse with Nature's charms, and view her stores unroll'd.
Page 291 - Praise the Lord from the earth, ye dragons and all deeps; fire and hail; snow and vapor; stormy wind fulfilling his word; mountains and all hills; fruitful trees and all cedars; beasts and all cattle; creeping things and flying fowl...
Page 153 - Mountains and all hills; fruitful trees, and all cedars; Beasts and all cattle; creeping things and flying fowl; Kings of the earth and all people; princes, and all judges of the earth. Both young men, and maidens; old men, and children. Let them praise the name of the Lord; for His name alone is excellent; His glory is above the earth and heaven.
Page 278 - If I were hungry I would not tell thee : for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof. Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats ? Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most high.
Page 169 - And I looked upon the true sea —the sea that plays with men till their hearts are broken, and wears stout ships to death. Nothing can touch the brooding bitterness of its soul. Open to all and faithful to none, it exercises its fascination for the undoing of the best. To love it is not well.
Page 321 - Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press ; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
Page 143 - T is not in the high stars alone, Nor in the cups of budding flowers, Nor in the redbreast's mellow tone, Nor in the bow that smiles in showers, But in the mud and scum of things There alway, alway something sings.
Page 34 - slow study,' and sit for a long while silent on my eggs. Unconscious thought, there is the only method: macerate your subject, let it boil slow, then take the lid off and look in — and there your stuff is — good or bad.