湖濱散記(25K)寂天文化, 2002 - 285 Seiten |
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Seite 123 - 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...
Seite 3 - In most books, the I, or first person, is omitted; in this it will be retained; that, in respect to egotism, is the main difference. We commonly do not remember that it is, after all, always the first person that is speaking. I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.
Seite 20 - Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
Seite 212 - Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.
Seite 72 - We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas ; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate.
Seite 273 - I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live, and could not spare any more time for that one.
Seite 11 - Think, also, of the ladies of the land weaving toilet cushions against the last day, not to betray too green an interest in their fates! As if you could kill time without injuring eternity. The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
Seite 15 - What distant and different beings in the various mansions of the universe are contemplating the same one at the same moment ! Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another ? Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant...
Seite 14 - But man's capacities have never been measured ; nor are we to judge of what he can do by any precedents, so little has been tried. Whatever have been thy failures hitherto, " be not afflicted, my child, for who shall assign to thee what thou hast left undone?