Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it; but while I drink, I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains. I would drink deeper; fish fill the sky, whose bottom is pebbly with stars.
Tag: Henry David Thoreau
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What men call good fellowship is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter which lie close together to keep each other warm.
I derive no pleasure from talking with a young woman simply because she has regular features.
Thank God men cannot as yet fly and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
As if there were safety in stupidity alone.
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.
Our truest life is when we are in our dreams awake.
Voting for the right is doing nothing for it.