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Posted by: thepinetree on 06/15/2023 12:24 PM
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A Bit of Wisdom from Henry David Thoreau
Concord, MA...Henry David Thoreau. July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862. As summer gets up to full swing. We thought a bit of Thoreau might be in order as many of us head into the woods for a visit this summer.
“However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poorhouse. The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the almshouse as brightly as from the rich man's abode; the snow melts before its door as early in the spring. I do not see but a quiet mind may live as contentedly there, and have as cheering thoughts, as in a palace.”
“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 practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and 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...”
“I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.”
“Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.”
“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”
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Posted on: 2023-06-15 15:50:27
By: Anonymous
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Thoreau went to the woods.
Trump went to the woodpile, for sexual assault, for stealing classified documents, for obstructing justice, for voter fraud, for sedition.
Chop, chop, Donnie. :)
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