"I delight to come to my bearings,......" - Quote by Henry David Thoreau
I delight to come to my bearings,... not to live in this restless, nervous, bustling, trivial Nineteenth Century, but stand or sitthoughtfully while it goes by.
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“The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?”
“In the summer we lay up a stock of experiences for the winter, as the squirrel of nuts?something for conversation in winter evenings.”
“But man's capacities have never been measured; nor are we to judge of what he can do by any precedents, so little have been tried.”
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“In general, shorter is better. If you can encapsulate your idea into a single captivating sentence, you're halfway home.”
“Although human ingenuity may devise various inventions which, by the help of various instruments, answer to one and the same purpose, yet will it never discover any inventions more beautiful, more simple or more practical than those of nature, because in her inventions there is nothing lacking and nothing superfluous; and she makes use of no counterpoise when she constructs the limbs of animals in such a way as to correspond to the motion of their bodies, but she puts into them the soul of the body.”
“You don't have to travel around the world to understand that the sky is blue everywhere”