Crowned with Wild Olive and not with gold. * * * * Wilful error is limited by the will, but what limit is there to that of which we are unconscious. * * * * The unlucky fact is that the wise of one class habitually contemplate the foolish of the other. * * * … Read the article »
“They said that a gentleman farmer, who was behind the scenes, wanted to double his money, which as I understood amounted to half a million, already; but in order to cover each one of his dollars with another he took off the only coat, ay, the skin itself of Walden Pond in the midst of … Read the article »
That devilish Iron Horse, whose ear-rending neigh is heard throughout the town, has muddled the Boiling spring with his foot, and he it is that has bruised off all the woods on Walden shore; that Trojan horse, with a thousand men in his belly, introduced by mercenary Greeks! Where is the Country’s champion to thrust … Read the article »
If God acts for a designed end, it must be that He desireth something which He has not. * * * * Men of ideas instead of legs (are) a sort of intellectual centipede. * * * * What danger is there if you don’t think of any? * * * * Self-styled reformers – … Read the article »
I am no more lonely than the loon (genus of web-footed aquatic bird) in the pond that laughs so loud or than water Pond itself. What company has that lonely lake, I pray? The Sun is alone except in thick weather but there the second Sun is a mock one. God is alone, —but the … Read the article »
It is (An Urdu Word) to raise your mind above the two worlds, It is laziness and inertia to be led by the current controlled by the sense of possession. There was nothing so important to him (Thoreau) as his walk. He had no walks to throw away on company. Visits were offered him from … Read the article »
Men ought not to care if a dog barks, as it is a proof he will not bite. * * * * The old coquette, this world of ours, conceals her age, but her biography is under our feet. * * * * God is more pleased when I smoke my pipe than from the … Read the article »
Join in engagement, whatever and wherever it be, choose not the end or environments, on, on with your work, 1. The President of a Railway Company being told by a fellow-passenger in the train that he (the passenger) had travelled on that road without paying any fare got his Capitalist curiosity excited. Paid $ 20 … Read the article »
Like the maid bringing (or churning) the cream or butter to the surface and then skimming it clean off. * * * * It is good that the pus or scab is collected, gathered into head and then removed or licked away by God in the form of dogs. Thus you are purified of all … Read the article »
The Light of Asia, as a literary contribution, is simply charming; as a page of history, Mr. Arnold’s poem has the value of a zero from which the formative circle has been eliminated. * * * * Gilded butterflies = kings and nobles. * * * * Jesters do oft prove prophets. To dominate the … Read the article »
