Appearance
I am willing to dive deeply into life, suck out the marrow of life, live a solid and simple life, eliminate everything that does not belong to life cleanly and neatly, push life to the extreme, and use the most basic form, simple, simple, and simple again.
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When you are richest, you are poorest. A faultfinder can find faults even in paradise. A person who is at peace can live a happy life anywhere, with an uplifting and optimistic mind, as if living in a palace. There is no need to go to great lengths to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Renovate the old and return to them. Nothing has changed, but we have changed.
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Time determines who you will meet in your life, your heart determines who you want to appear in your life, and your actions determine who will stay in the end.
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Knowing what you know and what you don’t know is true knowledge.
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I saw how the years flew by, winter passed and spring came.
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So-called resignation is a form of confirmed despair.
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From now on, stop living the life you should live, and live the life you want to live!
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Only when we wake up will the sky dawn. What dawns is more than just the dawn. The sun is just a morning star.
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The more things a person can let go of, the richer he is.
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.
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I went into the jungle because I wanted to live meaningfully, I wanted to live deeply and absorb all the essence of life. Then I could learn from it, so that when I reach the end of my life, I would not find that I had never lived.
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Why does a bucket of water become smelly after being left for a long time, but water can remain sweet forever after being frozen? Philosophers say that this is like the difference between emotion and reason.
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There is no cure for love, the only way is to love more deeply.
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How a person sees himself determines his fate and points to his destination. The same is true for our outlook. When better thoughts are injected into it, it becomes brighter. No matter how humble your life is, you must face it bravely, without escaping, and even less cursing it with bad words.
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Because in this world, all one needs to do is close their eyes and turn around to get lost.
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I would like to go my own way, and do not want to put on makeup and show off in public. I also do not want to - I do not want to live in this uneasy, neurotic, busy and trivial century. I would rather stand or sit, meditate, and let this century pass by.
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Most of the time, I think solitude is healthy. Even the best company soon tires of you and becomes a bad one. I love solitude. I have never met a better company than solitude.
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Wisdom and purity come from effort, ignorance and indulgence from laziness.
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If a person can confidently move in the direction of his dreams and work hard to live the life he desires, he can achieve success that is often unexpected.
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The sky is both above our heads and below our feet.
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Spending the most precious part of one's life making money in order to enjoy a little questionable freedom in the least precious part of one's life.
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"No matter how hard two legs try, they can't bring two hearts any closer"
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No matter how mean your life is, face it and live it; don't avoid it, let alone curse it with bad words. It is not as bad as you are. When you are richest, you are poorest. People who love to find faults will find faults even in heaven. Love your life despite its poverty.
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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them. -Henry David Thoreau
Most people live lives of quiet desperation, with the songs in their hearts buried with them in the grave.
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Every morning is a joyful invitation to make my life as simple, or perhaps I should say, as pure, as that of Nature herself. …
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I have no doubt that time will distinguish the good from the bad.
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When you pay too much attention to details, you are wasting your life bit by bit. If you really want to do something, just use your hands. If that's not enough, add your feet and you'll be done. Simplify everything! Simplify! Simplify again!
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Society has strayed far from the basic meaning of the word "society". Although we are in frequent contact, we have no time to discover new values in each other. We have to abide by a set of rules and regulations, the so-called "etiquette" and "courtesy", so that frequent contact will not become intolerable and resort to force.
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It is not until we are lost that we begin to understand ourselves.
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The richest element in the scenery is a bit of innocent sunshine.
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Kindness is the only investment that will never lose money.
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It’s not that I’m more cruel than others, but I don’t feel that I have any compassion.
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If a person moves confidently in the direction of his dreams and strives to live the life he imagines, he will encounter success that is unexpected in ordinary moments.
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If one reaches a certain level in life, one will naturally think that one can settle down anywhere.
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No one is happier than the one who can freely admire the vast horizon. The water and the sky meet, the ultimate beauty. The vast world and being alone, what a wonderful combination.
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One day is a microcosm of a year
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Nothing has changed, it is we who are changing.
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If you greet the day and night with joy, and life is as fragrant as flowers and herbs, and more elastic, more starry, and more immortal, that is your success.
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Everyone is an island. He can decide his own exile. When he encounters wind and rain, if his mind is closed, his sorrow will last for a long time until one day he encounters the sunshine.
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Civilized man is simply a more experienced and intelligent savage.
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We may not be able to reach the destination within an agreed date, but we can always stay on a true route.
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If a person lives sincerely, he must be living in a distant country.
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Life has no value unless you choose and give it value. There is no happiness anywhere unless you bring it to yourself.
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The true meaning of travel is not exercise, but to drive your soul to find the spring of life.
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The soul may misunderstand its identity due to its situation until the truth is revealed by a sage, and then it will know that it is a Brahman.
(This sentence comes from an Indian story: A prince was exiled from childhood and raised by a woodcutter. Later, he was accidentally discovered by a minister, and the prince knew that he was a prince.)
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I believe that one day: we will become better versions of ourselves, we will become the support of our parents, and we will become people worthy of love!
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How can you feel poor when you wear clothes earned through your own hard work?
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The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruit, can only be preserved with the greatest care, but men are not able to treat one another so gently.
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If we were just chatterboxes, talking loudly, we could stand close together and feel each other's breath; but if we were reserved and thoughtful, we would want to stand farther apart so that all the animal heat and moisture would have a chance to evaporate.
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Let us live each day as leisurely as nature does, and not let any nut or mosquito wing that falls on the rails throw us off the track. Make up your mind to live each day well and not let your life have any regrets.
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If a person has his own beliefs, then no matter who he works with, his beliefs will not depreciate; if he has no beliefs, then no matter what team he joins, he is just one of the vast number of living beings and will drift with the tide all his life.
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A person's value does not lie in the skin, and you don't need to touch them to know them.
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About heating. In a simple and frugal life, the way to keep warm is actually very simple. However, all minimalism in life is more or less tainted with the atmosphere of luxury. Regarding simplicity and luxury, sometimes it is a paradox. Maybe I am just too involved in the world and not calm enough.
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Life is poetic and sacred. Being awake is life. So he drank coffee, ate rolls, and read the newspaper, and learned that a man's eyes had been dug out on the Wachito River that morning; he didn't care at all that he lived in the unfathomable black hole of this world and that there were no pupils in his eyes.
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A life without planning and calculation is doomed to failure.
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Petty fears and petty joys are but shadows of reality. Reality is often lively and sublime. By closing their eyes, being infatuated, and allowing themselves to be deceived by shadows, human beings have established the routine and habits of their daily lives, following them everywhere, but they are actually built on the basis of pure fantasy. Children who live playfully are more able to discover the laws and true relationships of life than adults, who cannot live meaningfully and think they are smarter because they have experience.
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Time is but the stream in which I fish. I drink the stream, and as I drink I see its sandy bottom, how shallow it is. Its shallow water passes away, but eternity remains.
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All things, whether good or evil, flow past us like water.
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How a person views himself often indicates his destiny.
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清水是一个聪明人唯一的饮料，酒并不是那么高贵的液体。
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把一切不属于生活的内容剔除得干净利落，把生活逼到绝处，简化成最基本的形式，简单，简单，再简单。
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很久以前我丢失了一头猎犬，一匹栗色马，和一只斑鸠，至今我还在追踪它们。我对许多旅客描述它们的情况、踪迹以及它们会响应怎样的叫唤。我曾遇到过一二人，他们曾听见猎犬吠声，奔马蹄音，甚至还看到斑鸠隐入云中。他们也急于追寻它们回来，像是他们自己遗失了它们。每个人都会有自己遗失了的猎犬、栗色马和斑鸠。有的人一辈子都在找，有的人无动于衷。
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我终究只是你生命中的一个过客！
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许多人过着看似宁静，实际上却是没有希望的生活，这也就是绝望的命运的安排。你从失去希望的城市走向没有希望的乡村，像水貂和麝香鼠那样安慰自己。在人类的休憩和消遣之下，实际上隐藏着传统的恶习，无意识的绝望。
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我其实并不应该过多地谈论自己，前提是，如果我了解别人如同了解自己一样透彻。
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人的灵魂所必需的东西，是不需要用钱来买的。
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我们说，只能这样的生活呵，可是从圆心可以画出多少条半径来，而生活方式有这样的多。一切变革都是值得思考的奇迹，每一刹那发生的事都可以是奇迹
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不要费什么神去得到新的东西，不论是新衣服还是新朋友。改改旧的；回到它们那里去。事物没有改变；是我们变了。卖掉你的衣服，保留你的思想。上帝会看到，你不需要交往。如果我终生像只蜘蛛一样，被禁闭在阁楼的一角，只要我有思想，对我来说世界还是那么大。
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不管你的生活多么的卑微，你还得面对它，继续生活，而不要逃避，更不要诅咒他。生活未必像你想的那么坏。当你最富时，其实最穷。吹毛求疵之人即使到了天堂也会挑三拣四。哪怕在贫穷，你都要热爱生活。即使在贫民窟或是富人区，阳光在窗户上的反射都同样闪亮，积雪同样在早春融化。我觉得内心宁静的人，无论生活在哪里都像在皇宫一样，心境开朗，生活知足。在我看来，城市里的穷人通常都过着最独立的生活，也许是因为他们伟大到能毫无愧色地接受施舍。很多人是不屑于接受城市里的支援的，可是实际上他们往往采用不诚实的方式来维持生活，他们不但不超脱的，而是不光彩的，像圣贤一样把贫穷看成花园里的花草来培养吧！不要自找麻烦地寻求新花样，无论是新的朋友或衣服。温故而知新，回到旧事物里去。
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我爱独处，我从来没有发现比独处更好的伙伴了。在多数情况下，我们外出，到人们中间去时，比呆在自己的屋子里更为孤独。
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城市是一个几百万人一起孤独地生活的地方
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清晨是一天中最珍贵的时光，是觉醒的时刻
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如果把你的目光直接朝内看，就会发现，在你的思想中有一千个领域尚未被发现。
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我们最真实的生活是当我们清醒地活在自己的梦中。
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一切经得起再度阅读的语言，一定值得再度思索
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与我们自己的私人意见相比，舆论是一个软弱的暴君。恰恰是一个人对自己的看法，决定了他的命运，更确切地说，是指出了他的命运。
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智慧的一个特色，就是做不顾一切的事情。
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人们在狭小的生活圈里互相模仿。为什么他们不尽量远离些，做个真实的自己呢？
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上帝是孤独的，恶魔却总在拉帮结伙。
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构成一个人生命特殊性的，并不是他对于本能的顺从，而是他对于本能的反抗
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年长并不一定都好，长者有时甚至连指导年轻人的资历都不具备，因为他在岁月里失去的比得到的要多。
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世界留给黑夜和我。
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智慧和纯洁来自于身体力行，愚昧和无知则从懒散中产生。
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让我们目盲的光线，就是我们的黑暗。
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一切改变都是值得深思的奇迹，但它又是一种随时会发生的奇迹。
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一个人越是能够放弃一些东西，越是富有。
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大多数人都活在沉静的绝望中.
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切记，一种机会只能出现一次。
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这是一个美妙的夜晚，全身只有一种感觉，每个毛孔都浸润着喜悦。作为大自然的一部分，我在其中任意来去。
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人生也需要这样一个向导，可能我们在可计算的时间内无法达到港口，但是我们至少可以保证不会偏离航线。
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吹毛求疵的人即便在天堂也能挑出瑕疵。一个安心的人在哪都可以过得很好，抱着振奋乐观的思想，如同居住在皇宫一般。犯不着千辛万苦求新，无论衣服还是朋友。把旧的翻新，回到它们中去。万事万物没有变，是我们在变。
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使我们视而不见的光亮，对于我们就是黑暗。当我们清醒时，曙光才会破晓。来日方长，太阳只是颗启明星。
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Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.
永远不要回头看，除非你想走回去。
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社交往往廉价。相聚的时间之短促，来不及使彼此获得任何新的有价值的东西。
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有时间充实自己的精神生活，这才是真正的休闲。
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我要深入地生活，把生活的精髓都吸到，要生活得稳稳当当，生活得斯巴达式的，以便根除一切非生活的东西，划出一块刈割的面积来，细细刈割或修剪，把生活压缩到一个角隅里去，把它缩小到最低的条件中生活真的是需我用心去过，体会。
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无知和错误，满载着虚构的忧虑。 我们天性中最优美的品格，好比果实上的粉霜一样，是只能轻手轻脚，才得保全的。
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一个阶级的奢侈全靠另一个阶级的贫苦来维持。西方的朱门酒肉臭，路有冻死骨。
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当你窥望井底的时候你发现大地并不是连绵的大陆而是隔绝的孤岛。
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透过百叶窗照射进来的光线总是惹人注目，然而一旦打开窗子，即使有大片的光亮挥洒进来，也都引不起我们的注意。
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那些老年人告诉你办不到的事情，你不妨来尝试着做一下，最后发现其实你能做得到。
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诗人不应该总是坐在房顶之下喃喃自语，圣贤也不应该长久地宅居在室内。要知道，鸟儿永远不会在洞穴里歌唱，白鸽也不会以鸽舍为傲。
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我们能够给予物质的任何面目，最终都不如真实对我们有用。只有真实才经得住考验。
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人应该穿着简单，这样他就能在黑暗中把他的双手放在自己的身上，而且应该在所有的方面都简洁而又有准备地生活着，这样一来，如果敌人占领城镇，他就能像古代的那位哲学家一样，毫无焦虑地空着手走出家门。
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人类在过着静静的绝望的生活。你从绝望的城市走到绝望的村庄，以水貂和麝鼠的勇敢来安慰自己。……可是不做绝望的事，才是智慧的一种表征。
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你们尽可能长久地生活得自由，生活得并不执着才好。执迷于一座田园，和关在县政府的监狱中，简直没有区别
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一个健康的人内心深处的那种微弱而自信的反对，终将能战胜人类的种种雄辨和习俗。
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人类之所以想要一个家，想要一个温暖的地方，或者舒适的地方，首先是为了获得身体的温暖，然后才是情感的温暖。
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如果我能享受一年四季带给我的陪伴，那么生命就不会成为我的负担。
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一个人只有站在安贫乐道的立场上，才能成为一名公正而又有智慧的人生观察者。
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我确信，假设所有人都和我一样生活简朴，那么偷窃、抢劫之事便不会发生。发生诸如此类的事，主要原因是世上有的人得到的太多，而另一些人又得到的太少。
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我浏览一切风景，像个皇帝，谁也不能否认我这拥有一切的权利。我们都拥有欣赏一切，享受一切的权利，不要忽视这项权利哦！
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有了思想，我们可以在清醒的状态下，欢喜若狂。只要我们的心灵有意识地努力，我们就可以高高地超乎任何行为及其后果之上；一切好事坏事，就像奔流一样，从我们身边经过。我们并不是完全都给纠缠在大自然之内的。……看戏很可能感动了我；而另一方面，和我生命更加攸关的事件却可能不感动我。
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我宁愿坐在一个南瓜上，并且独自拥有它，也不愿挤坐在一个天鹅绒的垫子上。我宁愿在大地上乘坐空气自由流通的牛车，也不愿坐在观光火车的车厢里，一路呼吸着污浊的空气上天堂。
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我们的房屋是如此笨重，我们往往不是住在里面，而是被囚在里面。
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很久以前我丢失了一头猎犬，一匹栗色马和一只斑鸠，至今我还在追踪它们。
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现实常常是活泼而崇高的。由于闭上了眼睛，神魂颠倒，任凭自己受影子的欺骗现实与愿望是多么赤裸裸的南辕北辙。
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一个健康的人内心深处的那种微弱而自信的反对，终将能战胜人类的种种雄辨和习俗。可是很少有人按照自己的天性做事，直到走入歧途，虽然结果可能是肉体上的衰退，可是也许没有人会感到遗憾，因为这是符合更高的规律的。假如你能欢快地迎接白天和黑夜，生活像鲜花和香草一样的芳香，那么你的生活就更有弹性，更加如星光灿烂，更加不朽，那就是你的成功。
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一种善良的意识，要比一座像月亮那样高的纪念碑更令人难忘。
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当你实现你的梦想的时候，关键并不是你得到什么，而是在追求的过程中你变成了什么样的人。
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别人交口称赞的生活不过是生活中的一种，何必为了一种生活舍弃自己的生活
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人类如此死守手中的那点东西，难怪会失去灵性。
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你如果谈论天国，也就羞辱了大地。
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当我写后面那些篇页，或者后面那一大堆文字的时候，我是在孤独地生活着，在森林中，在马萨诸塞州的康科德城，瓦尔登湖的湖岸上，在我亲手建筑的木屋里，距离任何邻居一英里，只靠着我双手劳动，养活我自己。在那里，我住了两年又两个月。目前，我又是文明生活中的过客了。
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他们把人生最美好的光阴都用来挣钱，就为了可以在迟暮之年，去享受一番这让人质疑的自由。
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我们必须学会再苏醒，更要学会保持清醒而不再昏睡，但不能用机械的方法，而应寄托无穷的期望于黎明，即使我们睡得再沉，黎明也不会抛弃我们。
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影响时代特征的艺术，才是最高境界的艺术。
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摒弃我们的偏见，从来不算为时太晚。任何一种思考方式或者行为方式，不管它有多么古老，如无确证都是不可信的。
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不用给我爱，不用给我钱，不用给我声誉，给我真理吧。
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你们要尽可能长久地生活得自由，生活得并不执著才好。 每一个早晨都是一个愉快的邀请使得我的生活跟大自然自己同样地简单•.....同样地纯洁无瑕。 黎明带回了英雄时代 如果我们醒时并没有比睡前有了更崇高的生命，那末这样的白天也不会有什么希望可言 一切已知俱于黎明中醒 虽然我鲜少见到黎明，并且热爱赖床，看到这段话还是觉得很触动。思想化作文字，竟然能蛊惑着我的思想，些微的偏向最后也能成为深刻的认同。
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犯不着千辛万苦求新,无论衣服还是朋友。把旧的翻新,回到它们中去。
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每一个人都是一个王国的君主。
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可怜呐！人类最终却沦为了自己工具的工具。
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在军队里打仗的士兵所需的勇气连拦路打劫的强盗的一半都不到。
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我时常看到一位诗人，在欣赏了一片田园风景中最珍贵部分之后就扬长而去，那些固执的农夫还以为他拿走的仅只是几枚野草果。诗人却把他的田园押上了韵脚 ，而且很多年之后农夫还不知道这回事，这么一道最可羡慕的肉眼不可见的篱笆已经把它圈了起来，还挤出了它的牛乳，去掉了奶油，他把所有的奶油都拿走了。他只把去掉了奶油的奶水留给了农夫。
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我并非是在抱怨世界，倒是愿自己能如报晓的雄鸡那样精神抖擞地啼鸣，哪怕只为提醒我的左邻右舍。
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智力是一把刀子，它看准了，就一路切开事物的秘密。
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大多数人，即使是在这个比较自由的国土上的人们，也仅仅因为无知和错误，满载着虚构的忧虑，忙不完的粗活，却不能采集生命的美果。操劳过度，使他们的手指粗笨了，颤抖得又太厉害，不适用于采集了。真的，劳动的人，一天又一天 ，找不到空闲来使得自己真正地完整无损；他无法保持人与人间最勇毅的关系；他的劳动，一到市场上，总是跌价。除了做一架机器之外，他没时间来做别的。他怎能记得他是无知的呢——他是全靠他的无知而活下
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人之所需，并不是要做些事，而是要有所为，或是说，需有所是。也许我们是永远不必添置新衣服的，不论旧衣服已如何破敝和肮脏，除非我们已经这般地生活了，或经营了，或者说，已向着什么而航行了，在我们这古老的躯壳里已有着新的生机了，那时若还是依然故我，便有旧瓶装新酒之感了。我们的换羽毛的季节，就像飞禽的，必然是生命之中一个大的转折点。潜鸟退到僻静的池塘边去脱毛。蛇蜕皮的情形也是如此，同样的是蛹虫的出茧。
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古典的作品如果不是最崇高的人类思想的记录，那又是什么呢？它们却是从街头巷尾的琐碎平凡之中被提炼出来的语言，是永久的暗示，具有永恒的激发力量。
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学生应该多想一想。他们不该游戏人生，或纯粹地研究人生，还要社会付出很高代价去供养他们，他们应该自始至终，热诚的生活。
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不是爱情，不是金钱，不是名誉，不是公平……请给我真理。我们应该有勇气去面对真实的内心，即使前面荆棘满地，也要坚定地走下去。为了不浪费你的这一辈子。
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然而大人们却又总觉得自己比孩子聪明，因为他们有更多的生活经验，确切地说，是更多的失败经验。
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多余的财富只能够买多余的东西，人的灵魂必需的东西，是不需要花钱买的。
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熙熙攘攘的人们寂寞而绝望地生活在这个世界，所谓的听天由命正是对绝望的重新认定。
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在一个聪明人身上所产生的印象就是，万物都是无辜的。
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我们为今生创造家园，为来生建造墓穴。
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人性中最美好的部分，就像果实上的早霜，需要我们最温柔的呵护，才能得以保存。然而，不管是对己还是对人，我们从不曾真正温柔过。
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所有一切自然生长的东西都散发出某种特定的香味，这种香味飘渺如空气，易挥发，而这一点恰恰是它的最高价值所在，它不会变得庸俗，也不能拿来买卖。
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固然在太阳升起的时候，我从未在实质上助它一臂之力，但毋庸置疑，极其重要的就是在太阳升起的时候在场。
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独自一个人行走，今天就能出发；
和另一个人同行，就得等他准备好
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当一个人把他想象的事实提炼为他的理论之时，我预见到，一切人最后都要在这样的基础上建筑起他们的生活来
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一个人的富裕程度如何，要看他能放得开多少东西
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让我们像大自然那样从容不迫地过上一天，而不要因落在路轨上的坚果壳和蚊子翅膀而出了轨。让我们早早起身，轻轻地平心静气地，吃不吃早餐都行；任凭人群来往，任凭钟声响起，小孩啼哭——决心好好过上一天。
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我得感谢这样一个又深又清纯的湖，它是一个象征：假如人们相信无限时，那些湖就会认为是无底的。
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生活与野性相符。最富生机的往往是最狂野的。野性不会压制人，而会使人的精神大振。一个不断奋力前进、从未有过片刻休憩的人，会快速地成长，并无休止地向生活索求，那么他可能会不时地发现自己身处一片新的荒郊野地，周身被生活的原材料包围着，而他自己正在原始林木的匍匐茎上爬着。
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大多数的奢侈品以及许多所谓的使生活舒适的东西，非但不是必不可少的，而且必定阻碍人类的崇高向上
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我看到了丁香花的色彩，还是那么优雅，柔和，谦逊，那么令人赏心悦目
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一个旅行者问一个小孩子，面前的沼泽是否有坚硬的底，小孩子回答说有，然而旅行者的马刚踩上去便被陷到肚带，他问小孩子：“刚才我听你说沼泽有坚硬的底。”“没错啊”，小孩子回答，“不过你现在距离底还不到一半呢。”社会的沼泽和流沙同样如此，不过要了解这些，除非他是老小孩了。只有在很困难才能实现的情况下，或者千载难逢的机会时，把心里想的事情说出来并付诸实践，那才算是好的。
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文明创造出了宫殿，但要创造出贵族和国王来却并不这么容易。
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不管是什么野兽，它们的所需总不过是食物和一个栖息之地而已。
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不管你经历了多么痛苦的失败，也不要一蹶不振，谁又曾经指派你去做自己先前从未做过的事情呢，我的孩子？
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我们的天性的最优秀的品质，就像果实上的那层粉霜一样，只有在搬动的时候非常小心翼翼才能保留下来。然而不论是对待我们自己，还是对待别人，我们都并非这样体贴入微。
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为什么我们总是把我们的认识降低到最愚蠢的水平并且还将其夸为常识？最平常的意识是睡着了的人的意识，通过打鼾表现出来。有时候我们往往会把偶尔犯傻的人和傻子归为一类，因为我们只能意识到他们智力的三分之一。有的人如果哪天起了个早的话，对红艳的朝霞也会挑出毛病的。
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我们得益于太阳的光和热，也该配以相应的信任与宽宏的胸怀。
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“看不出何人是清醒者的人就是可怜的瞎子！”
人类的一个挚友，可以说就是人类进步的唯一朋友。一个老者，不如说是一个不朽的灵魂，不厌其烦，坚定信念，要解释清楚人类身上铭刻着的形象，而如今所谓的神，只不过是摇摇欲坠的神的破损了的纪念碑。他以慈祥的智力拥抱孩子，乞丐，疯子和学者，接受一切思想，而同事又把它们的广度及精度有所增加。我认为他应该在世界大道上开设一家大旅馆，招待全世界的哲学家，还要在旅馆的招牌上写着：“招待人，有闲情逸致的人请进，想寻求真理的人请进，人的兽性免进。”大概，他是我所认识的人中，头脑最清醒，最不善于钩心斗角的一个；昨天和今天，他都始终如一。
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一个人如果得到保证，在他身上的兽性正在一天天地死去，而神圣的东西正在确立下来，那么他就是得到了上帝的赐福。
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我也没有像鸟禽一般地歌唱，我只静静地微笑，笑我自己幸福无涯。
Instead of singing like the birds, I silently smiled at my incessant good fortune.
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我宁愿独自走我的路，或者可以的话，和宇宙的建设者结伴同行，也不愿混在盛装打扮的人群中招摇过市；我不愿生活在这躁动不安的、神经兮兮的、热闹喧嚣的、鸡零狗碎的19世纪，我宁可站着或者坐着思考，任由它悄然流逝。
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走自己的路坚定不移；对你所追求的态度谦恭。一定要把你最好的东西给人，尽管对方穷得无力回报。诸神会为你筹划将来的。一个人能给予别人的高贵礼物就是他的真诚，因为其中包含正直的品德。不要急于将自己的东西施舍出去，受施者的承受能力有强有弱，但要干净利落地赠与，立即倒空自己的银柜。我处世就犹如身处自然；在大自然面前，什么都无须保留，做什么都堂堂正正。
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每一个知道怎样读书的人，也就拥有了能够放大自己，大大的增加他的生存的方式，并使得他的生活充实，有意义，有趣味的力量。
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衡量任何一项活动的价值都不能凭它最后盈利多少，而应该看我们从中得到多少长进。
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我虽不富甲天下，却拥有无数个艳阳天和夏日。
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黎明啊，一天之中最值得纪念的时节，是觉醒的时辰。那时候，我们的昏沉欲睡的感觉是最少的了；至少可有一小时之久，整日夜昏昏沉沉的官能大都要清醒起来。至少一个月中有一两天好好看一看这样觉醒的黎明。
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我平生所赢得的最大赏识，就是有人问我在思考什么并倾听我的回答。
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执着追求并从中得到最大快乐的人，才是成功者。
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到了深夜，困意来袭，眼神渐渐有些迷离了，于是视觉退居脑后，其他感官成了主导。
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每一代人都嘲笑陈旧的时尚，却虔诚的追随新的时尚。
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That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
谁的快乐最廉价，谁就是最富有的人。
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太阳生，万物明。
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所谓的委屈求全其实是积重难返的绝望。
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有些人只读一些轻松的东西，让他们能放荡或单调的度过余生。
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我们把假象和幻觉推崇为最高的真理，却把现实看作是无稽之谈。
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书是世界的珍贵财富，是各个民族代代相传的健康遗产。
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一个人对自己有着怎样的想法，这就决定了他的命运，确切点说，指明了他的命运。
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Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder.
幸福就像一只蝴蝶，你越是追逐它，它就越是躲着你。但是如果你转移视线，它便会轻轻地落到你的肩头。
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比起我们个人的看法来，公众舆论是一个软弱的暴君。
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如果我真的对云说话 你千万不要见怪 城市是一个几百万人一起孤独地生活的地方。
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It is not enough to be industrious, so are the ants. What are you industrious for?光勤劳是不够的，蚂蚁也是勤劳的。要看你为什么而勤劳。
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虽然时光流逝，而黎明却永远不会到来，这就是明天的特征。让人目眩的光芒，犹如黑暗。唯有我们觉醒之际，天空才会破晓。破晓的，不仅是黎明。太阳只是一颗晨星而已。
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我以前一直被一个问题所困惑：怎样去过一种体面的生活？怎样去自由地追求自己的正当事业？现在我不那么困惑了，因为我幸运地变得比以前麻木了。
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从圆心出发，可以引出无数条半径。
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和同伴格格不入的人，或许只是因为他听到的拍子不一样。
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我相信我们的想象力会更丰富；我们的思想会更清晰、更新鲜、更超凡入圣，一如我们的天空；我们的理解会更加全面、广阔，一如我们的平原；我们的才智会运用得更加广泛，一如我们的雷电、山川和森林；我们心灵的广度、深度和崇高度甚至堪与我们的内陆海相当。旅行者也许会觉察到些什么，但他却不知道我们的面容上有着怎样的愉悦和安详。
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湖水时涨时落，但其中是否有规律，周期多长，没有人知道，虽然有不少人照例要不懂装懂。
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我们又回到了平原的散漫生活中，那么，就让我们努力把些许山峦的雄伟壮丽引入到生活中来吧！我们将记住我们躺在什么围墙里面，也将懂得这种平实的生活也有其巅峰，并且知道，为什么从山顶俯视山谷最深处时，会看到一抹淡蓝的色调。我们还会明白，每个时刻都有一定的高度，因为没有哪一部分的大地低到难以看见天空，而我们要做的就是伫立在自己时刻的顶峰，去远望连绵不绝的地平线。
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不管你的生命多么卑微，你要勇敢地面对它生活；不要逃避，更不要用恶语诅咒它。它并不像你想的那么坏。当你最富有之时，却是你最贫穷之日。喜欢吹毛求疵的人哪怕是在天堂里他也能找到错误。你纵然是贫穷，也要喜爱你的生活。即使是在济贫院，你依然还拥有喜悦，开心，荣幸的时光。黄昏的霞光照射到济贫院的窗户上，如同照在富人家的窗上一样耀眼夺目。（所有人）门前那早春的积雪同在消融。我亲眼目睹，一个心静知足的人在那里生活得宛若在皇宫里一样，生活得如此开心又如此心满意足。
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在十月份的时候，我到河边的草地里摘葡萄，摘下来的那一串串葡萄是因为其美丽和芬芳，而不是因为可以用作食物而珍贵。
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人们对死去的东西有一种古怪的爱好，他们喜欢去博物馆看生命已遭丢弃的外衣，而不是把握生命本身。博物馆里有特定的植物标本室、贝壳陈列室和骨骼展览室，但草地上却有花儿开放，海边上有潮水摔打着鱼儿，在山上兽类在营造自己的生活，这一切在博物馆里根本不会有。也见不到旅行者的骸骨安眠在草地里——也许这更值得研究。...各种鱼类本来在大洋里遨游，通过填充、上清漆和将深海居民的遗骸装进玻璃柜子里想恢复其原来的风采，都是大错特错了。要是你真想看这类东西，去意大利或埃及吧，在那里尸骨与坟墓和地下墓窟倒是相得益彰。
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精神可以一时之间渗透、控制身体的每一部分器官和每一个功能，把外表最粗俗的淫荡变成纯洁和虔诚。当我们放纵自己的生殖能力时，我们就会污秽不堪，而若我们有所节制，我们就会生机勃勃，大受鼓舞。贞洁是人类之花：而所谓的创造力、英雄主义、神圣等等都是它的果实。
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Not by constraint or severity shall you have access to true wisdom, but by abandonment, and childlike mirthfulness.If you would know aught, be gay before it. -Thoreau通达智慧，不是通过克制和严格，而是通过放任和孩童般的无忧无虑。你想了解任何事，请保持心情快乐。
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我喜欢看到，大自然是如此充满着生命力，因而无数的生物都经得起被牺牲，成为彼此的猎物。
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我宁愿坐在牛车上，呼吸着新鲜空气畅游地球，也不愿挤在昂贵精致的游览车上，一路闻着污浊的空气去天堂观光。
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由于日常生活太过奢侈浪费，人们的身体往往是有些问题的，饿一顿往往很有好处，可以奇迹般的恢复活力。
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所谓听天由命无非就是一种习以为常的绝望
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与年轻人相比，老年人并非更适合做教师，而且做得也并不如年轻人好，因为老年人的损失，要大于他们的收益。
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如果我们果真要死去，那就用心聆听最后的呼吸，用心感知四肢的温度散尽。
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一个深邃的思想会比高耸入云的纪念碑更值得纪念。
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我们必定是朝着自己的目标有意识地走了一部分路程，然后在不知不觉中一跃而取得了成功。我们做得最好或最完美的事情，都以经长时间反复练习得到充分掌握为前提，最终在不经意中像树上飘落的树叶一般降临到我们头上。我们最后要做的都在无意识之中完成了。
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仿佛天意，初夏时咬开一个草莓，就真的像吃下一颗红彤彤的心，勇气豪情顿时油然而生，一年余下漫长的日子里就能面对一切，担当一切。
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如果你不觉得脚下这方沃土比这个世界上（或其他世界上）任何地方的泥土更芬芳，那么你就不值得有所期待。
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世上再无比孤独更好相处的伴侣。I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
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而当虚幻的迷雾遮蔽了心灵，心灵挣扎着想从低俗庸碌的河谷里逃出。想冲破将地平线上的青山遮得严严实实的浓雾，这一切纯属徒劳，它只好对能一览近处、并不好看的小山包感到心满意足。
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任何时候放弃偏见都为时不晚。
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不必给我爱，不必给我钱，不必给我名誉，给我真理吧。
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
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债务是一种非常古老的泥沼。
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抵达后，他们挤进那座小房子，
没人想吃喝玩乐，那里也没有。
休息就是盛宴，他们非常自在：
最高贵的精神拥有最美好的满足。
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除了更深的去爱 没有什么方法可以治疗爱
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不要那么急切地去寻求发展，也不要让自己轻易屈从于周围的各种影响，这完全是在虚度光阴。
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A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.
一个人能够放得下的东西越多，他就越富有。
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吹毛求疵的人即便在天堂也能挑出瑕疵。一个安心的人在哪都可以过自得其乐的生活。万事万物没有变，是我们在变。
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那些照的我们无法睁眼的光，对我们其实只意味着黑暗。
---222---
每一千个人砍罪恶的枝丫，只有一个人在砍罪恶之根。
---223---
许多人过着看似宁静、实际上却是没有希望的生活，这也就是绝望的命运安排。你从失去希望的城市走向没有希望的乡村，像水貂和麝香鼠那样安慰自己。在人类的休憩和消遣之下，实际上隐藏着传统的恶习——无意识的绝望。这种休憩和消遣并没有真正娱乐的意义，因为只有真正的工作之后，才会有真正的娱乐。不做没有希望的事情，才是真正的智慧。
---224---
农夫、猎手、士兵、记者、甚至哲学家，都可能望而却步，但什么也不能吓住诗人，因为诗人是被纯粹的爱所驱使的。
---225---
一个阶层的奢侈是靠着另一个阶层的贫穷搭建起来的。
---226---
人必须不顾一切地听凭良知来行动；生命十分宝贵，不应为了谋生而无意义地浪费掉；树林和溪流的世界是好的，而熙熙攘攘、街道纵横的城市世界则是坏的。
---227---
人需要的不是去应付什么，而是去做什么，或者说，是成为什么。
---228---
Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.
践行你所信仰的，你可以让整个世界转动。
---229---
只要达到一定的思想境界，对于人世间种种行为及其后果，我们都能淡然处之；所有的事情，无论是好是坏，就像河流般从我们身边流过。
---230---
春日已经来临，我们仍在冬季中踟蹰。
---231---
那些衰老的，有病的，胆怯的人，不管他们的年龄性别，想得最多的是疾病、意外和死亡；在他们看来，生命是充满了危险的——可如果不去想它，那又有什么危险呢？
---232---
出发吧!最好的地方就在你的脚下!
---233---
我的梦想，
并不是点缀着一条诗行；
住在瓦尔登湖
我是如此接近上帝和天堂。
我是它石砌的湖岸，
我是漂过湖面的微风；
在我的手心
是它的清水和细沙，
它最隐秘的深处
高驻在我的脑海之中。
---234---
人的命运绝不能靠理性去探究，因为人无非是平庸之辈。我只是用最聪明的计划和论证跟自己玩玩游戏。我无法把握我自己。我无法说服我自己。上帝一定能说服。我能计算出一个算术难题，却解决不了任何道德问题。德行是无法计算的。
---235---
我们的生命被琐碎消耗至尽。
---236---
我们被迫如此认真而真诚地活着，尊重我们的生活，否认变革的可能。我们说，这是惟一的生活之道；但是，能从圆心画出多少条半径来，就有多少种生活之道。
---237---
我希望世界上每一个人都尽可能活出自己，并按照自己喜欢的方式去生活，而不要沿着父亲或母亲或邻人的老路过一辈子。
---238---
高尚者的品行像风，普通人的品行像草；风吹过时，草自然会伏低。
---239---
这种花了一个人的生命中最宝贵的一部分人来赚钱，为了在最不宝贵的一部分时间里享受一点可疑的自由，使我想起了那个英国人，为了他可以回到英国去过一个诗人般的生活，他首先跑到印度去发财。它应该立即住进破旧的阁楼去才对。
---240---
人类已经成为他们的工具的工具了
---241---
What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
比起我们的内心世界来，我们的身前事和身后事又算得了什么呢。
---242---
一个诗人在享受了一个农场的最有价值的部分之后离开，而爱发脾气的农夫却认为，他只带走了几个野苹果。嗨，过了许多年那位主人都不知道，诗人已经把他的农场写进了诗里。
---243---
这把斧子的主人，当他撒手给我的时候，说那是他的珍爱之物；但当我归还的时候，斧子比我借的时候还要锋利。
---244---
文明人不过是更有经验、更聪明一些的野蛮人。
---245---
到达了生命的某个特定时期，任何地方都可以安身。
---246---
有了思想，我们可以在清醒的状态下，欢喜若狂。只要我们的心灵有意识地努力，我们就可以高高地超乎任何行为及其后果之上；一切好事坏事，就像奔流一样，从我们身边经过。
---247---
通向我的路是什么样子？
我从未去看过
它的尽头。
它穿梭于空谷间，
岸上住着雨燕，
沙子飘落，
黑莓生长。
---248---
如果我们能一直生活在当下，好好把握生命中的一点一滴，正如小草对一滴水珠的充分利用，那我们就会生活得无比幸福了。
---249---
Only the serious gaze that looks out from the costume, and the serious life that is led in the costume, can restrain the tendency to laugh and regard any person's costume as sacred.
---250---
Nothing has changed, it is us who have changed
---251---
The morning breeze blows forever, and the poem of Genesis has not been interrupted to this day; but unfortunately there are too few ears that can hear it.
---252---
The bankruptcy and loss of morality are the springboard and platform for civilization to leap and rejoice. Although those barbarians always live on the hard board of poverty, their morality will not slide.
---253---
To know something that never ages is the most important news.
---254---
We worship our own lives and deny the possibility of change. However, in fact, there are as many ways of life as there are radii that can be drawn from the center of a circle.
---255---
The prerequisite for becoming a philosopher is not only to have profound thoughts, nor even to have founded a school, but to have a genuine love for wisdom and to live a simple, independent, indifferent and determined life in accordance with the dictates of wisdom.
---256---
A lake is the most beautiful and expressive feature of the landscape. It is the eye of the earth; looking into it he can measure the depth of his own nature. The trees on the lake's edge are its eyelash-like rim, while the surrounding forested mountains and cliffs are its thick, projecting eyebrows.
---257---
The lives of the masses are both quiet and desperate. The so-called resignation is a confirmed despair.
---258---
The light that blinds us is darkness to us. Only the day we wake up is the dawn. There are many more days of dawn, and the sun is only a morning star.
---259---
All living beings lead a life of silent despair.
---260---
The charm of the Indian to me is that he is free and at ease in the midst of nature. He is a resident of nature, not a guest, and his clothing is from nature, loose and appropriate. The civilized man has the habit of building a house to live in. His house is a prison, and he feels oppressed and constrained in it, not sheltered and protected. He moves as if he is supporting the roof; his arms are positioned as if the walls will fall down and crush him, and his feet walk without forgetting the cellar under the floor. His muscles are never relaxed. How rare is it to conquer the house you live in, to learn to sit in it and feel at home, to let the roof, floor and walls protect you as much as the sky, the trees and the earth. Freedom is a great art.
---261---
You must live in the present moment, ride every wave, find your eternity in every moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunity looking for another land. There is no other land, no other life except this one.
---262---
Everyone is the craftsman of his own happiness.
---263---
This hypocritical human society——
———For the greatness of the world
Dilute all the comfort of heaven into air.
---264---
I survey everything like an emperor, and no one can take away my rights.
---265---
Although luxuries surround us, we are still poor compared with the thousands of comforts of savages.
---266---
Bright flame, never leave me,
The shadow of your lovely life, the intimate feelings,
Isn't it my hope that soars upward so brightly?
Is it not my fate to sink like this in the night?
You are welcomed and loved by all.
Why are we banished from our halls and our hearths?
Could it be that your existence is too imaginative and unsuitable to illuminate the journey of life for the dull?
Is it your bright and mysterious light?
No conversation with our souls? Secrets that cannot be revealed?
Yes, we are safe and strong, because now,
We sat on the stove, without any shadows.
There is no more joy, nor sorrow,
Only the fire warmed our hands and feet;
I don't ask for more, I just rely on this solid and practical fire.
People can sit down and sleep in front of it.
Don't be afraid of the ghosts coming out of the darkness.
Whispering to us in the flickering light of the wood fire.
---267---
If a man lives sincerely, he must live far away.
---268---
The intersection of the past and the future is the present, and I am standing at this starting point.
---269---
If you think you have never picked black fruit but have tasted it, that would be a low-level mistake.
---270---
Man is like a cork float, which will not sink in spite of the storms, but will at last float safely to its harbor. Though it be seen through a crack or a knot in a plank, the beauty of the world remains intact.
---271---
There is no happier person in the world than one who is free to enjoy the broad horizon.
---272---
"The apple tree never forgets its noble pursuit, and blooms and bears fruit proudly"
---273---
A person's view of himself determines his own destiny, or in other words, indicates his final destination.
---274---
Public opinion is but a powerless tyrant
---275---
The tent was always brighter than the twilight, and when we lay down, we could see the moon clearly through the transparent tent roof, still high in the sky, overlooking the entire Wachusett Mountain. Although they are as far away as our destiny, it is enough to comfort us to know that they are still our companions. Indeed, the stars bring comfort to mankind. We must not only understand that our life is destined to be lonely, but also know that we have the right to gaze at the stars, and of course, they deserve a better destiny. We see the laws of nature that will never fail, and we never thought they would fail before. Their torches burn day and night. They provide this additional light, which shows how rich and generous their nature is.
---276---
There are as many ways of living as there are radii that can be drawn from the center of a circle.
---277---
The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruit, can only be preserved by the greatest care in handling.
---278---
I went into the jungle because I wanted to live my life leisurely, facing only the essential things in life, to see if I could grasp its teachings, and not, when I was dying, discover that I had never lived. I went into the jungle because I wanted to live my life leisurely, facing only the essential things in life, to see if I could grasp its teachings, and not, when I was dying, discover that I had never lived.
---279---
The best qualities of our nature, like bloom on fruit, can only be preserved by the most delicate care, but we lack this gentleness in our dealings with ourselves and with each other.
---280---
I think that being alone often is healthy. The company of even the best people soon tires people. I like being alone, but I have not yet found a companion who is as intimate to me as being alone. When we come to a foreign country, even though we are surrounded by people, we often feel more lonely than when we are alone at home. Loneliness cannot be measured by the distance between people.
---281---
I have also met one or two who have heard the baying of hounds and the neighing of horses, and even seen the turtledoves disappear into the clouds, and they were anxious to find them again, as if they had lost them themselves.
---282---
We are always in a hurry, always seeming to be somewhere, even when we are on vacation or traveling, we rush to visit all the scenic spots marked on the map, "click, click", then "click, click", and then bring back photos to show off to others. We rarely stop, stop to listen to the wind, look at the clouds, recognize the plants, and watch the crawling of an insect.
---283---
There are millions of people awake enough for physical labor, but only one in a million is awake enough for mental labor, and only one in a hundred million is awake enough to live a poetic or sacred life. Only to be awake is to be truly alive.
---284---
We have never recorded the simple and intense satisfaction that life brings us, the deep praise we feel for God.
---285---
Nature not only gives us fruits, but also flowers.
---286---
Charity seems to be the only virtue fully recognized by human beings.
---287---
If a man moves confidently toward the place of his dreams, striving to live the life he envisions, he will achieve unexpected success at ordinary times.
---288---
Wisdom and purity come from diligence, ignorance and depravity come from laziness.
---289---
I often think that it is not people who are herding cattle, but cattle that are herding people, except that people enjoy more freedom.
---290---
It is not only the sunrise and the morning light that you should see, but also nature itself, if possible! How many mornings, summers, and winters, I have been on the move before the neighbors are busy! No doubt many people in the town have seen me coming back from work, farmers rushing to Boston in the morning, or woodcutters going to work. In fact, although I can't help much when the sun rises, the only thing that matters at this time is that you are there when the sun rises.
---291---
To us, the light that blinds our eyes is darkness. Only when we are awake will the dawn come. There will be more dawns. The sun is but a morning star.
---292---
If a person can confidently move toward the place of his dreams and work hard to manage the life he longs for, then he can achieve unexpected success. He will put certain things behind him and cross an invisible boundary; new, larger, and freer laws will surround him and be established in his heart; or the old laws will be expanded and interpreted in a freer sense to his advantage, and he will be qualified for a higher order of life. The simpler his life, the simpler the laws of the universe will appear, loneliness will no longer be loneliness, poverty will no longer be poverty, and weakness will no longer be weakness. If you build castles in the air, your work is not in vain.
---293---
In this world, everyone is an island. No matter how close they are, they cannot form a piece of land. The distance between one island and another is the secret of their long-term standing on the sea.
---294---
所谓的听天由命，是一种得到绝望的证实。
---295---
让我们如大自然般悠然自在地生活一天吧，别因为有坚果外壳或者蚊子翅膀落在铁轨上而翻了车。让我们该起床时就赶紧起床，该休息时就安心休息，保持安宁而没有烦扰的心态；身边的人要来就让他来，要去就让他去，让钟声回荡，让孩子哭喊——下定决心好好地过一天。
---296---
世界上没有哪个地方的房子是完美无缺的。帕德农神庙、圣彼得大教堂、哥德式大教堂、豪华宅邸、茅舍，这些也都是一种不完美想法的不完美的实践而已。谁愿意居住在里面？也许，在众神眼中，村舍要比帕德农神庙更加神圣，因为他们俯视时，不必特别眷顾正式供奉著他们的神龛，而且村舍应该是庇护著大多数人类的最神圣的住房。
---297---
我主张他们不应该以生活为游戏，或仅仅以生活作研究，还要人类社会花高代价供养他们，他们应该自始至终，热忱地生活。除非青年人立刻进行生活的实践，他们怎能有更好方法来学习生活呢？
---298---
外壳最坚硬的坚果，里面往往是空的。
---299---
快把你的视线转向内心，
你将发现你心中有一千处
地区未曾发现。那末去旅行，
成为家庭宇宙志的地理专家。
你得做一个哥伦布，寻找你自己内心的新大陆和新世界，开辟海峡，并不是为了做生意，而是为了思想的流通。每个人都是自己领域中的主人，沙皇的帝国和这个领域一比较，只成了蕞尔小国，一个冰天雪地中的小疙瘩。
---300---
不管两条腿作多大努力，都不能使两个头脑更靠近。
---301---
如果一个人能满足于基本的生活需要，其实便可以更从容、更充实地享受人生。
---302---
我即将成为你生命中的一个过客！
---303---
灵魂的必需品并不需要用金钱来购买。
---304---
你们卑微低下的生活又怎能逃得过我的双眼，我这双眼睛早已被生活打磨得无比锐利了啊。
---305---
凡赐予你的就不要有所保留；否则就像不敢大胆呼吸那么有害。我们必须尽情地享受生活。我们将用年轻时那么令我们着迷、至死都难以忘怀的大自然奇妙的美来造就什么呢？我们对最小的木质纤维、大地的颗粒或一道光线都怀有爱吗？这不正是我们研究自己的成分和结构的真正的解剖吗？为什么人要爱向日葵以及墙壁和树木的颜色？
---306---
我很高兴世界上有猫头鹰这种生物，暂且让它们代替人类去做愚蠢又癫狂的哀鸣吧。这声音与那日光照耀不到的阴湿的沼泽地以及黄昏时的树林真是绝佳搭配，象征着尚未被人类挖掘出来的深层本性，代表了每个人都要经历的萧索黄昏和永不满足的欲望。
---307---
如果你熟悉了此种事件的原则，那么各种的实例和举证对你来说还有什么意义呢？
---308---
我们安居在地球上，忘记了苍穹
---309---
说到奢侈和舒适，最聪明的人往往过着比穷人还要简单和俭朴的生活。
---310---
去追逐真正的自我才是更加崇高的活动。
---311---
所有真正好的东西都很便宜，而有害的，则价格高昂。
---312---
只有杰出伟大的事物才能得以永久存在，我们所有的患得患失和沾沾自喜都不过是现实的虚影，唯有现实本身才是崇高且振奋人心的。
---313---
我们总是想要学会如何得到更多的东西，但有时候应该学学如何满足于更少的东西吧？
---314---
只有靠自己思想上的努力，而非靠记忆力所获得的知识才能算真正的知识。
---315---
我钱虽不多，却也是富裕的，有无数个阳光明媚的夏日供我尽情享受。
---316---
其实人们只要始终认清现实，不让自己受欺骗，那么生活将会变得像童话般美好。
---317---
抓住并利用好每一次机会，就当它是最后的机会。
---318---
只要我们用意志控制自己的心灵，我们就能高高地超乎任何行为及其后果之上；世间万物，无所谓好坏，就仿佛滔滔洪流，从我们身边经过。我们不必完全都纠缠在大自然之内。我可以是急流中的一片飘萍，也可以是从空中望着尘寰的因陀罗。
---319---
不要给我爱，无须给我钱，我也不要名誉，我需要的只有真理。
---320---
Though I do not believe
that a plant will spring up
where no seed has been,
I have great faith in a seed.
Convince me that you have a seed there,
and I am prepared to expect wonders.
我不相信
没有种子
植物也能发芽，
我心中有对种子的信仰。
让我相信你有一颗种子，
我等待奇迹。
---321---
一个人可能在他的礼貌中消失得无影无踪
---322---
有时我在春天能闻到一种无法言说的甜香，却无法找到它的具体来源。这也许是古人所说的土地的甜味。尽管我没有发现发出这种香味的花，三也许这种味道是它的水果发出来的。很自然，大地孕育的第一个水果应当吐出春天的气息，也就是说，它应是春天香气的焦点和体现，最近的空气里充满了这样的味道。草莓就是上天的甘露啊！每一种水果的汁液不正是从空气重萃取出来吗？
---323---
大多数人过着平静的绝望生活，他们心中的歌和他们一起被埋入坟墓。
---324---
年增岁长未必就更适于充当年轻人的导师，因为所得往往不及所失。我们几乎可以质疑，最聪慧的人又能否从生活中学到点具有绝对价值的东西？老实说，老年人并没有什么十分重要的忠告可以赠送给年轻人，他们本身的经验残缺不全，而他们的生活明摆着已是一场场悲惨的失败，他们对此谅必心中有数，无须明言。
---325---
我们离不了罪恶，那是我们通向美德的阳关道。
---326---
我不想生活在这不安分的，神经兮兮的，无聊忙乱的19世纪中，我宁愿静坐或站着让19世纪的时光就这么流逝。
---327---
时间只是我垂钓的溪，我喝着它，喝水的时候我看到，那河的底层多么浅啊。它的汩汩的流水逝去了，可是永恒留了下来。
---328---
一个阶级的奢侈全靠另一个阶级的贫苦来维持
---329---
一个阶级的奢侈全靠另一个阶级的贫苦来维持
---330---
我从没幻想过世上还有什么暴行，比我犯下的更恶劣。我以前从来没有遇见过，以后也不会遇见一个比自己更坏的人了。
---331---
公众舆论同我们的个人意见比较起来，只不过是个软弱无力的暴君。一个人对自己有着怎样的想法，这决定了他的命运，确切点说，指明了他的命运。
---332---
我们能做的就是健康地去过诸神为我们指定的生活。我必须默默地接受自己的生活，就像在小溪上面拂扬的柳树叶。我工作绝不是为自己，而是为上帝，那总不会有错。我将耐心地等待微风吹起，照大自然所限定的那样生长。我的命运也就这么微不足道。我们也许会过一棵植物，一个动物或不具有动物生态的生活。动物怀有恒久和普遍的满足感，是因为它们宁静地歇息在上帝的手心里。我觉得仿佛我可以随时放弃自己的生命和生活在上帝呵护中的责任，去变得像一棵植物或一块石头那样单纯，没有牵挂。
---333---
别再向往天堂！那是对大地的侮辱。
---334---
虽然我不富甲天下，却拥有无数个艳阳天和夏日
---335---
每一个清晨都是一次欢乐的邀请，令我的生活与大自然一样简单。
---336---
无论是社会上的病，还是身体上的病，都是寒冷造成的。
---337---
所谓的听天由命，便是一种根深蒂固的绝望。
---338---
我们必须学会重新醒来并保持清醒，不是通过机械的方式，而是通过对黎明的无限期待。
---339---
我觉得，无论是什么人，只要他真正地想使自己更高尚，或者说更有诗意的官能保持在最佳状态，他就不会吃荤，而且饮食不会过量。
---340---
尽管无忧无虑地在黎明醒来，踏上探险的征途，让正午在其他湖畔找到你，让黑夜随处为你安个家。
---341---
人世间最难闻的莫过于变了味的好事。
---342---
与其用花言巧语去美化事物，倒不如说出事物的真相。真相本身已经足够美丽。
---343---
人们关注的并不是那些真正应该受到敬重的东西，而是那些受人追捧的东西。
---344---
你准备欣赏多少美，你眼前的景色就呈现多少美。
---345---
大多数人都活在平静的绝望里
---346---
透过百叶窗照进来的阳光，一旦窗户打开便不再被人记得。
---347---
所有自然生长的东西都散发出某种香味，吃起来有种难以捉摸的美味。这个世界上每颗果子都能制成琼浆美食，但我们这样粗糙的味觉却感受不到，这就好比我们到了原本诸神居住的天堂却毫无察觉.....苹果是最重的东西，牛只要一看到苹果就会流汗。赶车的人一心要把苹果运到它们不该去的地方，而刚一上路，那些苹果就开始一个个从大车上溜走。老板拍拍麻袋，觉得货物都在，可是运到市场上的只是它们的皮囊和果核，这已经不能算苹果了，只是一堆果渣。它们一个接一个飘摇升天，带着它们最美好的那一部分去了天堂。
---348---
只有我们睁开眼睛醒过来的那一天，天才亮了。天亮的日子多着呢。太阳不过是一个晓星。
---349---
亨利·戴维·棱罗在《瓦尔登湖》
纪念罗宾·威廉姆斯
我步入丛林，因为我希望生活得有意义，我希望活得深刻，吸取生命中所有的精华，把非生命的一切都击溃，以免当我生命终结，发现自己从未活过！
---350---
不紧跟队列行进的人，大抵是听见了另一种鼓点
---351---
许多人钓了一辈子的鱼，却不知道他们钓鱼的目的并不是为了鱼。
---352---
一个人的价值并不在于他的皮肤，我们用不着触摸他。
---353---
人啊，不要用世俗的成功的眼光来看待每一个人吧。而你却要专心致志做好你要做的事—一辈子也许只是一件事。
而这就要使你的心灵单纯。生活越简单，宇宙的规律也就越简单，你要去弄清那些最基本的生活需求，而这往往是大自然慷慨提供给每一个人的。不要以复杂的方式来解决简单的问题，不要以多余的钱和精力去购买多余的东西。
---354---
人是自己幸福的工匠。
---355---
绝对而言，财富越多，美德就越少。
---356---
蓝知更鸟用背驮来了天，我在白睡莲的清香里，闻不到妥协的味道。
---357---
世人不断致力于占有更多的东西，梭罗也另有一种奇特的占有；世人纷纷地购进卖出，梭罗也另有一种奇特的购买方式。在他看来，如果你喜欢某处庄园，喜欢某处风景，你不必用金钱买下它，在它里面居住，而是要经常在心里想着它，经常到它那里去兜圈子，你去的次数越多，你就越喜欢它，你就越可以说是它的主人，就像一个诗人，在欣赏了一片田园风景中的最珍贵部分之后就扬长而去，那庄园主还以为他拿走的仅只是几枚野苹果，诗人却把他的田园押上了韵脚，他拿走了精华，而只把撇掉了奶油的奶水留给了庄园的主人。这种购买付出的不是金钱，而是比金钱更宝贵的东西，它付出的是一颗挚爱的心，还有体力，它得到的自然也更珍贵。这种占有是不为物役的占有，也是一种不妨碍他人占有的占有。
---358---
所有不幸都是未来的踏脚石。
---359---
人穿的简单些，能够以在黑暗中摸得到自己，并且生活的各个方面都很简洁，有备无患，这样，如果敌人占领城镇，他能够像古代的哲学家那样了无牵挂地空手走出城门。
---360---
我认为，不管我们的双脚如何努力向对方靠近，都无法拉近两个人心灵上的距离。
---361---
经常需要运用他的知识的人，怎么能够很好的记得自己的无知呢？
---362---
是骄奢淫逸之徒开创了民众奋力紧跟的时尚。
---363---
许多国王疯狂地保留了大量经过仔细雕琢的石头，希望使自己永恒。假如他们用这些心思来雕琢他们的心思，将会怎样呢？
---364---
年轻人学习生活的最好方式，不正是去经历生活吗？我觉得去经历生活就像是在做数学题，会使大脑得到很好的锻炼。比方说我想让一个男孩儿学习艺术和科学知识，我不会像一般人那样把他送到邻居教授家里就不管了，虽然，教授会告知并教会他一切有关技术和科学的知识，唯独一样他不会传授于他，那就是生活的艺术。
---365---
人们喜欢的纯净就是包围地球的雾，而不是雾外的蓝色太空。
---366---
“地球的表面是柔软的，人们一踩就会出现痕迹；同样，人的心灵也会走出一条条小路的。”
---367---
单独上路的人，今天想出发就可以出发；可是和别人结伴旅行的人，却必须等到另一个准备好，说不定要等很久才能成行。
---368---
我已经发现，两个人的腿再怎么走，也无法让两颗心靠得更近。
---369---
我们渴望说话，却不在乎是否有人倾听。
---370---
谈论重大的话题，我们需要的是理智，而不是速度。
---371---
如果我对云说话，你千万不要见怪
---372---
我们大多数人都只是活在平静的绝望当中
---373---
“每个人都是自己王国的国王，与这个王国相比，沙皇帝国也不过是一个卑微小国，犹如冰天雪地中的小雪团。
---374---
“我并不比湖中高声大笑的潜水鸟更孤独，我并不比瓦尔登湖更寂寞。我倒要问问这孤独的湖有谁作伴？然而在它的蔚蓝的水波上，却有着不是蓝色的魔鬼，而是蓝色的天使呢。太阳是寂寞的，除非乌云满天，有时候就好像有两个太阳，但那一个是假的。上帝是孤独的，——可是魔鬼就绝不孤独。我并不比一朵毛蕊花或牧场上的一朵蒲公英寂寞，我不比一张豆叶，一枝酢酱草，或一只马蝇，或一只大黄蜂更孤独。我不比密尔溪，或一只风信鸡，或北极星，或南风更寂寞，我不比四月的雨或正月的溶雪，或新屋中的第一只蜘蛛更孤独。”
---375---
一觉醒来,正是冬天的早晨。万籁无声,雪厚厚地堆着,窗台上像是铺了温暖的棉花;窗格子显得加宽了,玻璃上结了冰纹,光线暗淡而恬静,更加强了屋内舒适愉快的感觉。早晨的安静,似乎静在骨子里。
---376---
一只过路的奶牛曾进过我家前院，它是被我最近栽的一棵金钟柏吸引了，立马把头对准它，在我走过去制止之前，在离家一英尺处把树撞断了，我想这可没救了。然而这棵树却躲过了一场灾难，贴在地上的许多小枝慢慢围绕中心竖起来，最后我得到的不仅是一根细长的茎，而是一棵茂盛的树，形成漂亮完美的锥形。有个邻居也有这种树，还常常修剪，却总不能满意。最近他特意来问我是如何达到这一的效果的。我告诉他办法就是在这个季节，当牛儿们路过时打开院子门。
---377---
我发现大多数时间一个人独处时，有益于身心健康和朋友在一起，即使是最好的朋友，也会很快感到厌烦，消耗精力。我爱独处，我从来没有发现比独处更好的伙伴了。在多数情况下，我们外出，到人们中间去时，比呆在自己的屋子里更为孤独 与之有同感，只有在反思与回味中，时间才属于自己
---378---
我们每一天努力忙碌、用力生活，却总在不知不觉间遗失了什么。面对不断膨胀的物欲，我们需要的是一颗能静下来的心。多余的财富只能够购买多余的东西，人的灵魂必需的东西，是不需要花钱购买的。
---379---
人性最美好的品质就像水果表皮的白霜，只有通过最谨慎的处理才能得到保留，然而我们无论对待自己，还是对待他人，都不曾如此温柔。
---380---
与我们的个人信念相比，公众舆论只是一个孱弱的暴君。
---381---
星星是一个个多么奇异的三角形的顶点！在宇宙各种各样的星宿中，有着多么遥远而又不同的生命在同一时间里凝望着同一颗星星！大自然和人生正如我们不同的体制那样各不相同。谁说的准，生活会给别人提供个什么样的前途？还有什么比我们彼此的目光一瞬间的对视更伟大的奇迹吗？我们应该在一小时之内经历这个世界的一切时代；唉，所有时代的所有世界。历史，诗歌，神话！我不知道还有什么比像这样阅读别人的经验更让人惊异和增长见闻。
---382---
每个人的身体都是一座庙宇，他建设着这座庙宇，用自己的方式供奉着他崇拜的神；这是他无法逃脱的宿命。
---383---
他既不伟大，也不神圣，仅仅就是自己思想的奴隶和囚徒而已，这个称谓也算对得起他的所作所为了。
---384---
芸芸众生总是容易上当受骗。他们总爱走老路，而老路上总有这样那样的坑坑洼洼和陷阱里，他们注定了会掉进这些坑坑洼洼和陷阱里。为数众多的青年一心要投身商务也总是堂堂正正的出路，更不用说那些教会人员和政界人士了，都不应遭到轻视。
---385---
你应该成为探索自己的内心世界的哥伦布，去开拓新的航道，不是贸易航道，而是新的思想航道。每个人都是自己内心王国的君王，和我们内心王国相比，沙皇帝国不过是一个弹丸小国，冰天雪地里的一个小土丘。
---386---
大部分时候，我们把自己的时间都浪费在了一些无关紧要又瞬间即逝的事情上。这些烦琐之事。实际上是让我们无法集中精力的恶根所在。
---387---
如果一个人能够勇敢自信地循着自己梦想的方向前进，并坚定不移地走下去，那么他就会取得平时所无法获得的成功。
---388---
前人对你说，“这个你做不来”。但尝试后你发现，这个你做得来。前人自有一套行事风格，后人办事也不无办法。十有八九，前人当时是不知道在火快要熄灭的时候加根木柴的。而后人只要在大锅底下点把火，加点干柴，就可以坐在机车里满世界跑了，速度堪比飞鸟。
---389---
没有哪一个地方有幸福，除非你为自己带来幸福.
---390---
早晨无关乎时间，无关乎人们的态度和劳动。只要我清醒着，心中有光明，那就是早晨。
---391---
如果可以不背负任何信念生活，那我们就会不惜一切代价地去避免。
---392---
没有任何东西能迫使纯朴而勇敢的人陷入庸俗的悲哀。只要把四季当作朋友，我相信没有任何事情能让生活成为我的负担。
---393---
最初那个星期，每次望向屋外的瓦尔登湖，我总觉得它像是山峰之上的天池，它的湖底远远高于其他湖泊的水面；到了日出时分，我看见这湖渐渐脱掉夜间的雾衣，细纹荡漾或波平如镜的湖面慢慢地露出来，鬼魂般的迷雾则悄然从四面八方退入树林，仿佛它们的秘密聚会终于散场。
---394---
我走进森林
因为希望活得明智
我想要活得深刻
汲取生活的精髓
剔除所有不是生活的东西
到临终时
不会发现自己从未生活过
---395---
我们都是同一种生活试验的试验品，而这试验真是一点也不吸引我。
---396---
我当时发现，现在也发现，自己内心有两种本能;其一是想过上崇高的生活也就是所谓的灵性生活，这是大部分人都有的本能；其二是渴望体验原始而野蛮的生活：对这两种本能，我是一视同仁的。
---397---
我认为他们应该这样多多思考，他们不应该娱乐人生，或者仅仅研究人生，由社会供养他们从事这昂贵的游戏，而是应该自始至终认真的经历人生。青年人如不立即去尝试实践生活，又怎么可能更好的学会生活呢？我认为这会和数学一样锻炼他们的头脑。
---398---
扫过山脊的风吹拂着我的居所，那断断续续的呜咽恍如人间能得几回闻的天籁之音。晨风永无止息，造化之歌不绝如缕，但能听得见的耳朵很少。大地之上，何处不是奥林匹斯山呢？
---399---
无论在中国、印度、波斯还是希腊，古代的哲学家都是身外财物比谁都少、内心财富比谁都多的人。
---400---
好的阅读就是以真正的精神去读真正的书，这是一种高贵的活动，和如今备受世俗推崇的各种活动相比，它需要读者耗费更多的心血。
---401---
为什么人类要把自己的根紧紧扎在泥土里，不就是要像植物一样像天空伸展吗？
---402---
我希望每个人都可以谨慎地找到并追求自己的生活方式，而不是因循父母或邻居的。
---403---
过早的黎明带来了漫长的黄昏
---404---
人只要心智健全，又生活在大自然里，那就不会为任何事物感到忧伤。
---405---
智慧能够让我们明白什么是自由。
---406---
即便是居住在陋室，你也可以享受到愉悦兴奋的美好时光。
---407---
一个人如何看待自己，决定了这个人的命运。
---408---
最有激情的时刻胡乱写下的东西，可以踌躇满志于一时，可是等不到明天，就在今晚激情过后，它们就变得陈腐、单调、一无是处。
---409---
当他获得了生活的必需品时，他就开始不必从事卑微的劳作，可以涉足于生活的冒险了。土壤似乎适合种子的生长，但当它扎根于深处，现在也可以充满信心的向上生长了。人要如此牢固的将自己植根于土地之中，不就是为了能够同样的伸向天空嘛？
---410---
一个人能感觉到年终的自己比年初的自己好，就是最大的幸福了。
---411---
智识是一把砍刀；它会探测和切开事物的秘密。
---412---
他既不伟大，也不神圣，仅仅就是自己思想的奴隶和囚徒而已。
---413---
这就是生活，很多的事还有待我去尝试，尽管我的前辈们都体验过了，但这对我并没有任何帮助。
---414---
正是一个人如何看待自己，往往决定了此人的命运。
---415---
我曾在这样的时候泛舟湖上，从不同的角度观看水面的倒影，我见到的是一种美丽得无与伦比而又难以言喻的淡蓝色，像柔顺的丝绸或者刀剑的霜刃般，反射出闪闪的光芒，看上去比天空本身更为湛蓝；这淡蓝色和波浪对面原有的深绿色交替变幻着，后者相形之下甚是不如。
---416---
我认为很多公共讲演者很愚蠢，他们有时俨然以恩人的态度谈论所谓的“小东西”，建议人们不要完全忽略它们。但划分这种不正确的大小界线，他们依靠的只是一根十英尺的杆和自己的无知。根据这个规律，一个小土豆就是小东西，一个大土豆就是大东西。而一个装满东西的大桶、一块需要很多牛拖拉的奶酪、一轮礼炮、一次全国性的检阅、一只大公牛、一匹哥伦布马，或者奥西恩诗人布兰克先生：任何人都不会把它们叫作小东西。一个马车轮子是大东西，一片雪花是小东西。著名的加尼福尼亚树是大东西，而它的种子是小东西。行人很少注意到它的种子，也注意不到所有的种子或者事物的起源。而普林尼说：“自然中最渺小的事物最卓越。”
---417---
我宁愿独自坐在一只南瓜上，而不愿拥挤地坐在天鹅绒的座垫上。
大多数人在安静的绝望中生活，当他们进入坟墓时，他们的歌还没有唱出来。
---418---
太阳终古常新，抛弃偏见，无论何时都不会太迟。
---419---
我们的去旧换新的季节，就像飞禽的换羽期一样，也一定是我们生活中的一个紧要关头。
---420---
我们的展望也这样，当更好的思想注入其中，它便光明起来。
---421---
事实上，太阳升起的时候尽管我帮不上什么忙，此时唯一重要的事，就是日出时有你在场。
---422---
生活在社会最底层的人，虽然是那么卑贱与无知，却可能是生具异禀的天才，他们总是有独到的见解，从未不懂装懂；尽管他们的外表很可能是肮脏邋遢的，他们的思想却像瓦尔登湖般深不可测。
---423---
为了独处，我发现有必要逃避现有的一切——我逃避我自己。我怎么能在罗马皇帝装满镜子的居室里独处呢？我要找一个阁楼。一定不要去打扰那里的蜘蛛，根本不用打扫地板，也不用归置里面的破烂东西。
---424---
我想要活得从容，接触生命的本质:
看我能否学会生活的教训；
我不想在临终之际，
发现自己未曾活过。
---425---
这个夏日的午后，我在窗边静坐，苍鹰翱翔于我的耕地上空；野鸽子三三两两地从我的视界疾飞而过，或者在我屋后的白松枝上蹦上跳下，尽情地啼唱；鱼鹰插进波平如镜的瓦尔登湖，叼起鱼儿复返长空；水貂鬼鬼祟祟地走出我门前的沼泽，在岸边抓住了青蛙；飞来飞去的刺歌雀压弯了莎草；过去半个小时来，我一直听见火车咔嗒、咔嗒在响，时而渐渐消歇，时而越来越响，很像榛鸡扑打翅膀发出的声音，将旅客从波士顿运载到这地区来。
---426---
景色中一抹清纯的阳光
是最为艳丽的风光…
你围着栅栏的牧草地
没有人跑去作乐狂欢…
你从不和人争论
也从未被问题所困
穿着朴素的黄褐色华达呢衣服
仍和初见时一样温顺
---427---
爱情无可救药，惟一的良药就是越爱越深。
---428---
爱是一切自然颂歌的主题。鸟类的歌声是一首贺喜的结婚之歌。花卉的婚礼用珍珠和钻石点缀着草地和给篱笆加上饰边。在深水里，在树林和牧场的高空以及大地的心脏，爱是万物从事的工作和生存的状态。
---429---
如果人自信地朝着梦想的方向前进，努力去过上他事先设想的生活，他将会取得普通人想象不到的成功。
---430---
我爱孤独，我没有碰到比孤独更好的同伴了。侧身于人群之中，大概比独处室内更为寂寞。
---431---
过剩的财富只能买过剩的东西。灵魂所需要的东西都是用不着钱来买的。
---432---
老年人认为你们办不到的事，你们做了努力，发现自己办得到。老人老办法，新人新办法。
---433---
大多数人在安静的绝望中生活，当他们进入坟墓时，他们的歌还没有唱出来
---434---
我想要的是一个人的鲜花和果实：我希望他身上有某种芬芳来熏陶我，在我们的交往中能够感受到他的成熟。
---435---
大自然既为强者提供用武之地，也为弱者提供容身之所。
---436---
把旧的翻新，回到它们中去，万事万物没有变，是我们在变。
---437---
水放在水桶里会很快发臭，但结成冰就能永远保持甘美。大家常说这就是情感和理智的区别。
---438---
我们不一定能够在计算好的期间抵达我们的港口，但是我们会保持正确的航线。
---439---
如果一个人有信仰，那么他无论到哪里都会与有相同信仰的人合作：如果他没有信仰，那么无论他处在哪些人中，他都会继续过着浑浑噩噩的日子。
---440---
我们为什么要放弃做自己，而去随波逐流呢
---441---
无论多么古老的思想和行为方式，不经过证实就不能轻信。
---442---
人们赞赏并被认为成功的生活，也只不过是生活的另一种罢了。我们为何要夸大一种生活，贬低另一种生活呢？
---443---
时间的浅水潺潺流过，但永恒依然存在。我愿意到更深处去喝水；我愿意到天空里捕鱼，天空的底部铺满了星星。
---444---
我们会发现人们之所以会选择去过这种大众化的生活，是因为较之其他生活方式，这是他们最喜欢的。但同时他们也真切的认为，除此之外他们别无选择。然而，那些健全敏锐的人深知，每天升起的太阳永远都会是光彩夺目的。所以对我们来说，何时放下偏见都不会太晚。
---445---
我宁愿坐在一个南瓜上，一人独占，而不愿坐在天鹅绒的垫子上，你挤我，我挤你。我宁愿坐上一辆牛车，在人间世上随意漫游，而不愿坐游览火车的高级车厢上天堂，一路上呼吸着乌烟瘴气。
---446---
人是最能适应各种气候和环境的动物。
---447---
如果他的周遭是崇山峻岭，是阿喀琉斯式的岸线，群峰遮蔽并倒影在他的胸膛里，那么这个人是有些深度的。
---448---
文明虽然改善了我们的房屋，却没有同样改善居住在房屋里的人。
---449---
轻盈的烟雾，宛似伊卡洛斯之鸟，
再向上飞翔，你的羽毛就会融掉，
你是无歌的百灵，是黎明的信使，
村庄是你的巢穴，你在其上回缭，
或者你是逝去的梦，是夜半幽魂
的迷蒙身影，摆弄着飘飘的裙角；
你在夜间遮蔽了星辰，你在白日
阴暗了光芒，你让太阳不再闪耀；
我的烟雾啊，从这壁炉向上去吧，
请天上的诸神原谅这明亮的火苗。
---450---
一个地方只要能够让我们恍然大悟，仿佛获得新生，就总是能给我们带来无法形容的愉悦。在大多数情况下，我们所忙碌的无非是些肤浅而短暂的事情。它们其实分散了我们的心神。最接近万物的乃是那种使万物得以存在的力量。接近我们的是那些永远在发挥作用的最伟大规律。接近我们的并非我们花钱请来的工匠，不是那个我们喜欢与之谈天的工匠，而是制造了我们的天匠。
---451---
人们颂扬并视为成功的生活，仅仅只是万千生活中一种。我们为何要赞美这一种生活而贬低另一种生活呢？
---452---
坏事最好从一开始就不要去做。
---453---
首先肉体的温暖在先，其次才是心灵的慰籍
---454---
我们不能一探手就触及到地平线
---455---
人们每晚温顺地从就近的田地或街上回到家中，那里回响着苦恼，他们的生命逐渐憔悴，因为他一再呼吸的都是自己的气息。
---456---
一个人对自己的认知，会影响或者决定他的命运。
---457---
你现在是什么人，就做什么人吧，别想着要让自己变得更有价值，而是要怀着善意努力地去做好事。
---458---
当士兵中了炮弹，烂军装也宛如高贵的紫袍
---459---
没有比善良变质更难闻的气味了，就像人或神的腐尸臭味一样。
---460---
最高贵的书面语言往往隐藏在易逝的口头语言背后或者之上，就像苍穹和星辰在浮云之后那样。
---461---
至于未来或者前景，我们应该抱着开放的态度，顺其自然，别明确地限定我们将来应该是什么模样；至于过去或者从前，那就像我们的影子，无非是表明我们还在阳光下活着而已，应该将其抛在身后。
---462---
奢侈的生活永远结不出奢侈之外的果实。
---463---
只有持续不断地渗入和浸泡在周围的现实之中，我们才能理解一切圣洁而高贵的东西。
---464---
蜕皮、蝶破蛹时也是如此，都是由内在的努力和生长引起的；而衣服不过是我们外表的壳层和尘世的束缚。
---465---
我们现在再也不宿营过夜，而是结庐在人境，再不念穹苍。
---466---
公众的看法对我们的影响，其实并没有我们自己的看法那么大。人对自己的看法，决定或者说影响着他的命运。
---467---
所有的改变都是一种深思熟虑过后的奇迹，每一瞬间奇迹都在发生。当一个人把想象最终转化为现实的时候，我敢说，所有的人都会从这一基点出发，建立自己的生活。
---468---
假如我们总是真正地去生活，根据刚刚了解到的最好方式去调节我们的生活，那么沉闷乏味将和我们无缘。
---469---
“人的幸福是由自己设计的。”
---470---
“In any weather, at any hour of the day or night, I have been anxious to improve the nick of time, and notch it on my stick too; to stand on the meeting of two eternities, the past and future, which is precisely the present moment; to toe that line”
“现在是过去和未来永恒的交汇点，
我想要站在这个交汇点上，
在这条无限延伸的交汇线上翩翩起舞”
---471---
有人以为人生的全部，无论在高峰之巅或低陷之谷，都已给先驱者走遍，一切都已被注意到了。
---472---
人们在购买衣服的时候，更多是出于喜欢新奇的心理。他们总是考虑着别人是怎样看待自己的，根本不考虑他们的实际作用。
---473---
我们只有站在安贫乐道的立场上，才能够无私地或者明智地去观察人类的生活。
---474---
一个人的价值并不在他的皮肤，我们常常碰到他，不代表就对他有所了解。
---475---
人的一生为了什么而奋斗，原因和人数是成正比的。
---476---
你刚走出了失望之城，又走进绝望之乡。
---477---
本质就是信念。
---478---
读书要像著书那样审慎而有节制。
---479---
主宰那里的是终年没有波浪的宁静，犹如黄昏时琥珀色的天空。
---480---
蓝莓就这样数周不变地挂在枝头，密密麻麻，相互依靠，黑色的，蓝色的，蓝黑色的。但我们对它们味道的热切盼望常妨碍我们欣赏它们的美。尽管我们也喜爱旁边冬青果的颜色，可如果它们有毒，我们肯定更多听到的是对它们美丽外形的赞美。
---481---
看看樱桃种子是如何艺术地放置的，以至于小鸟必须传播它——它包在具有诱惑力的果皮里，要吃它的动物一般必须把它们一口吞进去。如果你曾吃过樱桃，并且也是一口吃下去的，你肯定知道这种情况——就在甘美的一口中间，一大块硬渣就落在了舌头上。我们嘴里的樱桃核如豌豆那么大，一次就有十多颗，大自然要达到目的可以让我们做任何事情。一些野蛮人本能地会把这些果核吞下去，就像鸟一样。在匆忙之中，这倒是最快去掉它们的办法。只有王子才可以让人把他们的樱桃布丁去核，他们的生活也就更加奢侈、无用。也许他们希望可以通过不时地前呼后拥地种树来弥补这一切。
---482---
一个有时间增加他灵魂财富的人才能真正享受闲暇。
---483---
仿佛是清风送来了他，
仿佛是麻雀交会了他，
仿佛是神秘的路标指引着他，
觅见了远方土壤中怒放的兰花。
---484---
时至今日，虽身居其中，对家乡的土地有些什么宝贝，大多数人还是未知，这些土地有如大海中的小岛，等待航海的人来开发、探险。任何一个午后的散步途中，都可能会发现一种过去从没入过我们眼的野果，而这种野果的甘甜滋味和漂亮色泽也会令我们惊叹不已。我本人散步时就发现了一些野果，其中几种的学名和俗称，我至今仍然一无所知；由此可见身边尚不为人知的野果，即使不是无穷无尽，也堪称为数量可观。
---485---
Inde genus durum sumus,experiensque laborum,Et documenta damus qua simus origine nati
从此人成为坚强物种，历尽劳苦，为我们证明了我们的来历
---486---
如果我的知人之深，比得上我的自知之明，我就不会畅谈自我，谈那么多了。
I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.
---487---
我们需要的，不是忙忙碌碌无所为，而是全心投入有所成。
---488---
我可以预料到，一旦有个人把他脑海中的想象转变成了可能实现的现实，那么以后所有的人都会生活并建立在那之上了。
---489---
只有在我们醒着时，天才是真正的破晓。日出未必意味着光明。太阳也无非是一颗晨星而已。
---490---
年增岁长未必就适合充当年轻人的导师，因为所得往往不及所失。
---491---
我生活在瓦尔登湖，再没有比这里更接近上帝和天堂的地方。我是它的石岸，是掠过湖心的一阵清风。在我的手心里，是它的碧水，是它的白沙，而它最深隐的泉眼，高悬在我的哲思之上。
――
---492---
如果你面前有什么事业要做的话，穿着旧衣服去试一试。人需要的不是去应付什么，而是去做什么，或者说，是成为什么。也许，无论旧衣服多破多脏，我们永远不应该获取新的衣服，直到我们所做、所从事的事业已顺利扬帆，使我们感到在旧衣服里面的已是一个新人，如果保留旧衣服就会像是用旧瓶装新酒。我们的换羽季节，和飞禽一样，必定是生命的转折关头。潜鸟隐没到偏僻的池塘去度过这段时光。蛇是这样蜕皮、毛虫也是这样脱去其蠕虫的外衣，都是凭借内在的努力和扩展；衣服也只不过是我们最外层的护膜和尘世的烦恼而已。否则，我们就会被认为是披着伪装骗人，最终必定会被我们自己的以及别人的看法所抛弃。
---493---
The morning, which is the most memorable season of the day, is the awakening hour.
在一天之中，清晨最值得怀恋和纪念，这是一段让万物醒悟的光阴。
---494---
我来到森林，因为我想过悠闲的生活，只面对现实生活的本质，并挖掘生活意义之所在。
---495---
我认为白水是唯一适合智者的饮料，酒并非高贵的液体；一杯咖啡能够冲走清晨的希望，一杯热茶可以破坏夜晚的美梦！
---496---
富人虽然投入大量的时间和金钱去接济穷人，但置穷人于万劫不复的悲惨境地的，也许正是富人的生活方式。
---497---
我突然感到大自然里面，在雨点的滴答声，在我屋子周围听到和见到的一切事物都存在着一种美好而又仁爱的友情。
---498---
我宁愿坐在一个南瓜上，这南瓜只容我一人占用，而不愿挤坐在天鹅绒的软垫上；我宁愿在大地上驾驭着一辆破牛车，悠闲自在地游荡，也不愿乘坐豪华的观光火车去天堂，沿途呼吸着乌烟瘴气。
---499---
这世上大多数人，生活在平静的绝望中。
---500---
不要给我爱，不要给我钱，不要给我名，请给我真理。
---501---
濒此小湖而居，所见最美光景莫过于八月细雨乍歇时分，其时风停水静，云天俱暗，午后而有黄昏之肃穆，四周百灵啁啾，响彻湖岸。
---502---
大多数人，即使是在这个比较自由的国土上的人们，也仅仅因为无知和错误，满载着虚构的忧虑，忙不完的粗活，却不能采集生命的美果。
---503---
Be not simply good — be good for something.
不要一味地善良，要有原则地善良。
---504---
我宁愿独坐在一个南瓜之上，也不愿与众人挤做一个天鹅绒垫子。我宁愿在泥土中驾着牛车，来去自由，也不想坐在花哨的游览列车上，一路呼吸着污浊的空气。
---505---
人性最美好的品质就像水果表皮的白霜，只有通过最谨慎的处理才能得到保留。
---506---
人类过着静静的绝望的生活
---507---
森林已被砍伐，怎能希望鸟儿歌唱？
---508---
最富有的时候，看上去倒是最贫穷的。吹毛求疵的人也能挑出瑕疵；安心的人在哪里都可以自得其乐，如同居住在皇宫一般。犯不着千辛万苦求新，无论衣服还是朋友。把旧的翻新，回到他们中去。
---509---
我盼望每个人都能非常清醒地去发现和追求他自己的生活方式，而不是模仿他的父亲、母亲或者邻居。
---510---
和年轻人相比，老年人不是更优秀、更有资格的导师，因为岁月让他得不偿失。
---511---
有些人对前面那种商品——也就是新闻——的胃口很大，而且消化能力特别强，所以他们可以整天纹丝不动地在公共场所里坐着，让新闻像爱琴海季风般从他们身边吹过，或者毋宁说他们把新闻当成乙醚了，它产生了麻醉作用——否则许多新闻是会让人感到痛苦的——却又不影响意识的清醒。每当走过镇区，我总是能看见这些活宝一字排开，或者坐在台阶上晒太阳，身体前倾，探头探脑地朝街巷两边看，脸上时不时露出猥琐的表情，又或者背倚谷仓站着，双手插在口袋里，像古希腊建筑的女神式立柱，仿佛谷仓全靠他们支撑。这些人通常到户外打听风里的消息。他们是最粗糙的磨坊，先把各种八卦新闻粗略地消化或者碾碎，再将其倾倒进屋内更为精细的料斗。
---512---
常见的合作都是片面而肤浅的，真正的合作非常少，那虽然表面上不像，但确是人们一种无法感知的和谐。
---513---
慈善事业不是对同胞的泛爱。确定你给穷人的帮助是他们最需要的。如果你给他们钱财，那就同他们一起花，别把钱甩给他们就一走了之。穷人常常只是外表肮脏，衣衫破烂，举止粗鲁，却不一定那么饥寒交迫。但这并非他们的痛苦，部分原因还是他们的品味所至。如果你给他们钱，他们可能会去买更多的破衣烂衫。如果你富裕，就像枣树一样慷慨吧;如果你没有可给予的，那就像柏树一样，做一个自由之人吧。
---514---
最美好、最温柔、最纯洁、最鼓舞人心的相处，很可能是人和自然的相处。
---515---
我爱野性，不亚于我爱善良。
有时候我愿意粗野地生活，更像野兽似的度过我的岁月。
---516---
没有比德行走了味更坏的气味了。
---517---
为人们赞扬并认为成功的生活，只不过是生活中的一种。为什么我们非得夸大其中之一而贬低其他的生活呢？
---518---
其实真正深不见底的，是他们对奇迹的向往之情。
---519---
植物生存，长短不一，抑或高贵低贱无端让人想起生命本质，是否就是梭罗所说“外在简朴，内在丰富”的灵性栖居?草木枯荣，朝代更迭，流水訇然，万物周而复始。人，委实不能明白，他终究活不过一颗草，更活不出草的快乐恣扬，一旦攫取物质丰盈，如何面对满目精神荒凉？“自然于卑微处最伟大”,古罗马先哲如是说。
---520---
暂存的一切不要贪求。
哈里发的光荣已成虚无。
巴格达城外的江水万古长流！
你应像枣树一样慷慨大度。
即使你是贫无所有，
也应像柏树一样无拘无束。
---521---
我在日常生活里的真正收获是不可触摸、难以形容的，就像早晨和黄昏的霞光。我抓住的是些许星尘，是彩虹的碎片。
---522---
如果说你满怀喜悦之情迎接白昼与黑夜，生活就像鲜花香草一样芳香四溢，而且更有弹性，更像繁星，更加不朽——那就是你的成功。于是，整个大自然都向你表示庆贺，而你一时也有理由为自己祝福。
---523---
无论是如何古老的思想与行为，除非有确证，便不可以相信。
---524---
如果我们发现自己根本无法抵御今天这个纷繁复杂的物质世界的引诱，那么最好的办法就是“Simplify，simplify，simplify.”（简朴，简朴，简朴。）
---525---
虚假和欺骗被奉为最可靠的真理，而真实却被视为谎言。
---526---
只要在职业选择方面稍微再用点心，也许所有人都会变成本质上的学生和观察者，因为人们当然会对同类的天性和命运感兴趣。
---527---
在从容而明智的时候，我们发现唯有伟大而高贵的东西，才是永恒而绝对的存在——至于那些琐碎的忧惧与快感，那不过是现实的影子。
---528---
当劳动者，在夜晚凝望火堆时，他在白天积累下来那些纷乱而庸俗的想法都得到了进化。
---529---
不管你的生活多么卑微，那也要面对它过活；不要躲避它，也不要贬损它。生活毕竟还不像你那么要不得吧。你最富的时候看上去倒像穷鬼。净爱挑剔的人，就算到了天堂，也会净找碴儿。热爱你的生活吧，哪怕是很贫困。即使在济贫院里，说不定你也会有一些快活、激动、极其开心的时光。
---530---
就奢侈和舒适而言，最明智的人过着比穷人更为简单和贫乏的生活。
---531---
你们以为这样一来便可积蓄点钱物来应付生病的日子，殊不知反而把自己累病了。
---532---
假如你用心去观察，那么当你遇到一个人，你不但能看到他表面上拥有的一切，还能看到他背后拥有的大部分东西，你会发现他背负着所有这些东西，竭尽全力地前进。
---533---
每个人都有义务让他的生活变得崇高，让生活的方方面面经得起最挑剔的审视。
---534---
每天早晨，在凡俗的生活短暂地停顿之后，人的灵魂，或者毋宁说是人的器官，再次充满了活力，他的气魄又尝试过上高贵的生活。
---535---
正像一本古书所说的，人受到一种看似真实的、通常称为“必然”的命运的指使，总是把金银财宝储藏起来，接着，蛀虫和铁锈便来腐蚀，小偷则入室盗窃。这便是蠢人的一生，生前他们未必清楚，但一旦走到了生命的终点站，就会恍然大悟。
---536---
当我们把自己一向所学的全部遗忘时，我们才能真正从头认识。想研究某种东西的时候，如果预先认为自己跟它的关系早已由以前的学者所奠定，那么我们对它的认识就太有限了。为了彻底了解某件事，我们必须把它当作从未见过的全新的东西来研究。
---537---
政府同我没多大关系，我尽量不考虑它。我不常生活在政府之下，我甚至不常生活在这个世界上。如果一个人思想自由，幻想自由，想象自由，那么不自由的东西在他看来就不会长期存在。
---538---
That man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest.
能轻易获得快乐的人最富有。
---539---
节俭是一种允许轻率看待的问题，但却不能轻率予以处理。
---540---
我们的生活太拥挤，相互干扰，彼此牵扯到一起，因此我认为，我们之间太缺乏相互尊重了。
---541---
过去和未来的交汇点就是现在，而我正是站在这道起跑线上
---542---
每个时代总是嘲笑旧的时尚，但又虔诚地追随新的时尚。
---543---
仔细想想，其实我们所提到的那些烦恼与忧虑大部分是些什么东西呢，有多少一定要我们去烦心，——或至少说——去关心的。
---544---
如果一个人曾真诚的生活过，那么他肯定来自一个遥远的地方。
---545---
每个暗坝都是我们临时的港口，我们会在里面羁留和部分的自我封闭。
---546---
所谓会读书，就是本着诚意去读确实有价值的书。这是一种高尚的消遣。
---547---
早晨是一天中最值得纪念的光景，是苏醒的时分。这时候我们的倦意最弱，部分平时昏昏沉沉的器官至少能够清醒一个小时。
---548---
你除了这一生，再也没有别的一生。
---549---
人类需要有个家，也就是一块温暖或舒适的地方，首先是身体上的温暖，随之而来的是感情上的温暖。
---550---
我们必须学会再次苏醒，并保持清醒的状态，但要借助的不是某些生硬的措施，而是对黎明的无限期待，这是我们在睡得最熟时也会有的期待。
---551---
玷污了一个人的，并不是进入口中的食物，而是吃食物时的胃口。那既不是质量，也不是数量，而是对感官上的味道的热爱；在那个时候，所吃下去的东西并不是一种维持动物生命的食物，也不是启发精神生命的食物，而是送给占有了我们生命的寄生虫的食物。
---552---
两条腿无论怎么努力奔跑，也无法使两颗心互相贴近。
---553---
真正的好书不会像奢侈品那样麻醉我们、让我们的思辨能力昏然睡去，而是需要我们踮起脚尖去拜读，需要我们将最敏锐和清醒的辰光奉献给它。
---554---
我们都生来喜欢夸大自己所做的工作的重要性；可是我们没有做的还有多少呀！
---555---
无论白天还是黑夜，在任何天气任何时候我都渴望抓住关键时刻，并在我的杖上可刻痕下这个时刻，我渴望立足于过去和将来，这两者的汇合点，也即现在这一时刻，准备起跑。
---556---
有一个人曾切中要害地说，他们失败的很大部分并不是真正的金钱上的亏损，而只是由于手头不便而没有能够履行约言；也就是说，垮掉的是诚信。
---557---
不要回头看，除非你想走回去。
---558---
砍伐罪恶之夜的人有一千个，但是看伐罪恶之根的却只有一个！或许那个在穷人身上用了最多时间和金钱的人，他的生活方式为社会带来的灾难也最多，他想弥补，但是无能为力
---559---
绝大多数人似乎从来没想过房子到底是什么，只是看到邻居有房子，便想着自己也必须有一座，于是落得终生穷困，而这其实是毫无必要的。这就好比有人已经穿着裁缝为他量身定做的皮衣，逐渐抛弃了棕榈叶做的草帽或者土拨鼠皮做的皮帽，却还抱怨生活太过艰难，因为他没钱给自己买一顶皇冠！
---560---
人要是不相信在烦嚣的白日之前，有着更神圣、更绚丽的时刻，那么他对生活肯定已经感到绝望，而他所走的人生之路肯定是江河日下、越来越黑暗的。
---561---
牺牲最美好的年华，辛苦赚钱，为的就是在最没价值的辰光里享受那令人怀疑的自由。
---562---
别人逃到车子里和披屋里躲雨，你不妨就躲在乌云底下吧。你要谋生，靠的不是自己的手艺，而是自己的消遣。尽情享受大地的乐趣吧，可千万不要占有大地。人们由于缺乏进取心和信心，势必依然故我，一辈子就像奴隶那样买进卖出。
---563---
我要划出宽广的战场，仔细消灭所有的浮华和琐碎，将生活逼到某个角落，剥掉它全部的伪饰。
---564---
醒着即是活着。
---565---
我家有九百本藏书，其中有七百本是自己写的。
---566---
在任何气候下在昼夜的任何时间里，我都急切地想要改善当前的状况，在自己的手杖上刻下它的印记；站立在目前的时刻，这正是过去和未来两个永恒的交汇点；站在这个起点上。
---567---
除了目前需要以外，在你找出更强有力的理由以前，永远也不要建什么上层建筑。
---568---
玷辱他们的不是吃下去的食物，而是吃这种食物的胃口。
---569---
即使在人类游戏和娱乐的表象之下，也同样潜藏着一种被模式化了的来自潜意识的绝望。
---570---
时间是条长河，我在其中垂钓，从中汲水畅饮。但在饮水的时候，我窥见了它泥沙满布的河底 才知道它原来只是条浅溪。细细的水流流过，永恒的东西却得以沉淀。我要从这河的深处汲水，我要到那高空中去垂钓，那天幕之上点缀着的是耀眼的星辰。
---571---
芸芸众生，求存于无声的绝望之中。
---572---
我们需要鞭策——我们就像公牛，需要抽打才会快跑。
---573---
你要反复修改，特别是，在停顿了足够长的时间以后，你怀疑你已经接近了事物的核心和至高点时，你更要在那里重申你的观点，向你自己描述它。这个故事不必太长，但它必须先写得很长，然后才能精简缩短。
---574---
如果要为了获得面包而失去纯真，不如立刻饿死。
---575---
任何事物的代价等于你用多少生命去换取它
---576---
一本书，能解释我们的奇迹，又启发新的奇迹，这本书就为我们而存在了。
---577---
若你爱我，我们两个要永生相相欠
---578---
其实我倒不强求别人采取我的生活模式，既因为在他熟练地掌握这种方式之前，我自己可能已经过上另一种生活，也因为我希望这世界上有尽可能多与众不同的人；但我盼望每个人都能非常清醒地去发现和追求他自己的生活方式，而不是模仿他的父亲、母亲或者邻居。
---579---
我总认为，一个人若是活的诚恳，必定是生活在遥远他乡。
---580---
绝大多数奢侈品，以及许多所谓的生活的舒适，非但是多余的，而且还会妨碍人类的提升。说到奢侈和舒适，最聪明的人往往过着比穷人还要简单和俭朴的生活。无论在中国、印度、波斯还是希腊，古代的哲学家都是身外财物比谁都少、内心财富比谁都多的人。
---581---
贞洁是人类的装饰品，而创造力、英雄主义、神圣等，只是它的果实而已
---582---
然而，在这件事上，我的辛苦本身就是回报。
---583---
我好比茫茫草原上的一株蒲公英，好比一片豆叶，一只苍蝇，一只大黄蜂，我们都不感到孤独。我好比一条小溪，或那一颗北极星；好比那南来的风，四月的雨，一月的霜，或那新居里的第一只蜘蛛，我们都不知道孤独。
---584---
我们必须学会重新醒来并保持清醒，不是通过机械的方式，而是通过对黎明的无限期待，即使在最沉睡的时候它也不会抛弃我们。我所知道的最令人鼓舞的事情，就是人具有通过有意识的努力来提高他的生活的能力。
---585---
或许上溯到亚当和夏娃被赶出伊甸园之时，那个春天的早晨，瓦尔登湖已经存在于天地间，甚至可能就是那个清晨，随着飘拂而来的蒙蒙细雾和习习南风，撒洒落下一阵金色的春雨，打破了宁静的湖面。
---586---
我们不能拿那些已经做过的事来判定我们到底能做什么。
---587---
忙碌是不够的，蚂蚁也一样。问题是，我们在忙什么？
---588---
我们被迫生我的极其精打细算，极其真诚，崇敬我们的生活，否定变革的可能性。
---589---
我们频频见面，却没有时间相互获得什么新的益处。我们一天三顿饭的时候都见面，彼此重新品尝一下我们自己这块发霉的陈奶酪。我们挤在一起生活，彼此碍事，相互牵扯，我认为，在这种情况下，我们会失去一些彼此之间的尊重。
---590---
这种火鸡麦（即玉米）的杆像芦苇的一样，里面是些海绵状有小洞的组织。每棵杆高五到六英尺，有些结节，下面粗，多呈紫色，往上渐渐变细。玉米叶又宽又大，也和芦苇叶一样中间有叶脉。玉米顶部和芦苇一样长出穗，分成多缕垂向四方，穗里没有种子，但有花粉。玉米的花或白、或黄、或紫，这也决定日后结出的玉米粒颜色。玉米粒结在玉米芯上，玉米芯从结节处长出，一株玉米可结棒四到五根。玉米棒顶露出一些柔软细长的须状物，就像香薄荷上的那种细流苏样须一样，不过更长更粗。这些玉米须贴着玉米粒长在玉米芯上。玉米粒很大，有碗豆那么大，一侧紧贴玉米芯，朝外的一侧圆形，颜色或白、或黄、或紫、或红，每一圈有八到十粒，味道略甜，很不错。玉米的根很多，很粗，根须也很多……
---591---
我宁愿独自坐在一直南瓜上，而不愿拥挤的坐在天鹅绒的座垫上。
---592---
人们正在按照自己的方式对自己做出更多的了解。每一个乡下人和挤奶工都知道，小牛第四个胃的内膜能够凝固母乳，他们也知道哪种特定的蘑菇可安全食用，且富含营养。你不能调查所有的田野和森林，但是那些地方的每块儿石头似乎都已被翻动过，每棵树的树皮也都被撕开过。不管怎样，积极地去探索毕竟要比坐等真相大白之际再去观看要容易得多！常言说得好：“检查者的态度是谦卑的”。智慧并不是在检查，而是在注视。在我们得以注视之前，我们须得检查很久。
---593---
梭罗在《瓦尔登湖》中给我们讲了这样一个故事：有一个追求完美的艺术家，有一天他想做一根手杖，他想，凡是完美的作品，其中时间是不存在的，因此他自言自语，哪怕我一生中不再做任何其他的事情，也要把它做得十全十美。他一心一意，锲而不舍，目
不他视，心无他想，坚定而又高度虔诚，在这整个工作过程中，他的同伴逐渐离开了他，都死去了，而他在不知不觉中却保持着青春，最后当手杖完成时，它突然辉煌无比，成了梵天世界中最美丽的一件作品。
做好一件事—这就是他告诉我们的。专心致志于你所做的事—这就是他告诉我们的。为什么要急于成功？如果一个人跟不上他的伙伴，那也许是因为他听到的是生命的另一种鼓点，遵循的是生活的另一种节拍。
---594---
Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snows in the fields and woods, if you would keep your spirits up. Deal with brute nature. Be cold and hungry and weary.
---595---
我希望活得深刻，汲取生命所有的精髓，以免在我生命终结之时，发现自己从来没有活过
---596---
我的房子里有三把椅子，孤独的时候用一把椅子，结交朋友的时候用两把，交际的时候用三把。
---597---
梭罗在《瓦尔登湖》中给我们讲了这样一个故事：
---598---
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
多数人生活在平静的绝望之中。所谓听天由命，不过是习以为常的绝望。
---599---
时间只是供我垂钓的河流
---600---
樱桃雀、猫鹊、朱顶啄木鸟也吃苹果和梨，特别是那些结得早又甜的果子。威尔逊说朱顶啄木鸟“一旦受到惊吓，就会把喙刺入一个大苹果或大梨，叼着它飞到林子里去”。奥特朋则看见过樱桃雀“虽然受伤被关在笼子里了，却一直吃苹果直到被噎死”。
---601---
湖是风景中最美丽、最富于表情的姿容。它是大地的眼睛，观看它的人也可衡量自身天性的深度。
---602---
有些东西，在最无助和生病的人是必需品，在别人来说则仅仅是奢侈品，又在另一些人来说，那是根本听都没听过。
---603---
一个人，只要满足了基本生活所需，不再戚戚于声名，不再汲汲于富贵，便可以更从容、更充实地享受人生。
---604---
时间只不过是供我垂钓的溪流。我饮用溪水;但在我饮水的时候，我看到了它的沙床，发现它是多么的浅。
---605---
成千上万的人寂寞而绝望的生活在这个世界上，所谓的听天由命正是对绝望的重新认定。
---606---
早晨只是时间的流逝，而不是真正的破晓。导致我们闭上双眼的阳光，对我们来说就是黑暗。只有在我们醒着时，天才是真正的破晓。日出未必意味着光明。太阳也无非是一颗晨星而已。
---607---
很久以前我丢失了一头猎犬、一匹栗色马和一只斑鸠。至今我还在追踪它们。我对许多旅客描述它们的情况、踪迹以及它们会响应怎样的叫唤……每个人都会有自己遗失的猎犬、栗色马和斑鸠。有的人一辈子都在找，有的人无动于衷。
---608---
多余的财富也只能买到多余的无用之物，金钱买不来灵魂所需的必需品。
---609---
There is no remedy for love but to love more.
爱情没有解药，只有爱得更深。
---610---
大部分的奢侈品以及所谓很多的舒适品，它们非但不是我们生活中不可或缺的，反而对人类的进步起到了极大的阻碍作用。
---611---
耗尽一生中最宝贵的时光去赚钱，竟是为了在最不宝贵的一段时间里享受一点可疑的自由。
---612---
世界上只有能够自由自在地享受广阔的地平线的人才是最幸福的。
---613---
人死万事空，徒蹬两脚灰
---614---
人类社会有如此多的虚假和伪善，它们就如同难以和麦粒剥离的糠皮一样，和所有人一样，我为此也十分痛惜。
---615---
Sometimes, on a summer morning, among the pines, hickories, and sumacs, in undisturbed solitude and silence, I would sit in my sunny doorway, lost in thought, from sunrise till noon, while the birds sang around, or flitted noiselessly through the houses, until the sun fell on my west window, or the noise of travelers' carriages on the distant road reminded me of the passage of time.
---616---
If a person always lags behind his companions, it may be because he hears a different drum beat than everyone else, and therefore advances at a different pace than everyone else.
---617---
No way of thinking or doing, no matter how ancient, is worth following blindly. What everyone claims or assumes as eternal truth today may be proven to be false tomorrow, just black smoke, not the rain clouds that some people once thought would bring down the rain on their fields. There are some things that people said you couldn't do, but you find you can do them after trying them.
---618---
A lake is the most beautiful and expressive feature of the landscape; looking at it one can gauge the depth of his own nature.
---619---
We still live humbly, like ants.
---620---
If a man cannot keep pace with his companions, it may be because he hears a different drum. Let him march to the beat of the music he hears, no matter what the tempo or how far away.
---621---
Every road is a road of destiny, except your own. So, continue to follow your own path.
---622---
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. -Henry Thoreau.
---623---
The tendency of hunmanity is towards to forbidden.
It is human nature to explore taboos.
---624---
I do not wish to live what cannot be called life, for it is so wonderful to live; nor do I wish to retire to the countryside unless I must. I want to experience life in depth, to absorb all its essence.
---625---
Humanity leads a life of quiet desperation.
---626---
I never dreamed,
Become the attire of poetry;
The place closest to God and heaven,
None other than Walden Pond, where I live.
I am the breeze blowing upon it,
Its stony banks;
I cupped my hands.
Its clear water and sand,
And its deepest place,
Lying high in my mind.
---627---
Look forward to the sunrise and dawn, but also to nature itself if possible!
---628---
If the earth had grown from a seed, the seed of the earth would be a ball less than two and a half miles in diameter, which would occupy only one-tenth of the earth's diameter.
---629---
People are always happy to condemn doing nothing, but shouldn't doing nothing be condemned even more?
---630---
I believe in an ideal or true nature, infinitely more perfect than the real nature, just as there is an ideal life for man; otherwise, whence come those summer glories which sometimes visit our minds? What is man to be when nature ceases to be a wonder to him? What is the value of life if there are no more sublime and unexplored aspects of human action? Who would have the zeal to build a house and live in it, if he did not live in an ideal paradise?
---631---
In those days, there was a slight snowflake dancing in the places where I worked. But when I walked out of the woods and stepped onto the railway to go home, in many places, the yellow sand dunes shimmered in the mist of the atmosphere and stretched into the distance, the railroad tracks shone in the spring sunshine, and the singing larks, woodcocks and other birds had already flown in to start the new year with us.
---632---
It is true that I never played any role in making the sun rise, but there is no doubt that you were there when it rose, and that is what matters most.
---633---
The lake is the eye of the earth; he who gazes upon it can measure the depth of his own nature. The trees that grow along its banks are its long eyelashes, while the lush mountains and cliffs that surround it are its thick eyebrows.
---634---
At first it was just a hidden dam on the shore, with some kind of thought anchored in it. Later it became an independent lake, cut off from the ocean. Then the thought trapped in it had its own closed environment. The lake might change from salt water to fresh water, and become a freshwater lake, the Dead Sea or even a swamp.
---635---
I believe that there is a strong faith in the seeds. I believe that you are also a seed, and I am looking forward to your miracle happening.
---636---
The most real gains of my life every day are as elusive and inexpressible as the morning glow and evening mist.
......
I like to be sober most of the time, and the levels of intoxication are endless.
---637---
But the passing of time alone will never bring us to the dawn. This is the nature of the morning. The light that covers our eyes is darkness to us. Only when we are awake does the day break. There are many days when the day breaks. The sun is only a morning star.
---638---
The purity and gifts of nature are truly indescribable, just like the sun, wind and rain, summer and winter, they continuously bring health and joy to mankind!
---639---
Most people live a life of silent despair. To put it bluntly, resignation is the depth of despair.
---640---
It is not only the tailor who is one-ninth of a man; it is also the case with the missionary, the merchant, and the farmer. Where does this division of labor end? What end does it ultimately serve? Others can, no doubt, think for me; but it does not follow that it is desirable for others to do it for me and not for me to think for myself.
---641---
Poison is not necessarily poisonous, and trauma is not necessarily fatal. Sympathy is very fragile, it must be fleeting, and its various appeals cannot be categorized.
---642---
Many people live quietly desperate lives. The so-called resignation is a deep-rooted despair.
---643---
Let us get up at dawn. It doesn’t really matter whether we have breakfast or not. As long as we are calm and have no sense of uneasiness, let people come and go, let the clock ring and the children cry - make up our minds to live every day well.
---644---
I can wear countless medals on my shoulders, but they are far less glorious than this moment.
---645---
A person who feels at peace can live a happy life anywhere, with an uplifting and optimistic mindset, as if he were living in a palace.
---646---
Where the water flows into the lake may be coolest in the summer and warmest in the winter.
---647---
The flourishing of nature is lonely, far away from the towns where people live. You insult the earth and dare to talk about heaven.
---648---
In fact, not all older people can serve as mentors to young people, because what they gain in their lives is not necessarily more than what they lose.
---649---
When it comes to luxuries and comforts, wise men are often more frugal than poor people. The ancient philosophers of China, India, Persia and Greece were all of the same type of people. No matter how poor their external wealth was, their inner spiritual life was extremely rich.
---650---
Thankfully, the world is not limited to this.
---651---
What everyone echoes or acquiesces in as truth today may be regarded as falsehood and empty talk tomorrow, but some people once regarded it as a cloud of good fortune, thinking that it would turn into rain and fall on their fields.
---652---
"The young man gathered materials to build a bridge to the moon, or maybe a palace, or a temple on Earth, and finally the middle-aged man decided to use them to build a wooden shed."
---653---
It is not surprising that the earth expresses itself to the outside world in the form of leaves, for it has the thoughts of leaves within it.
---654---
The peasant who takes possession of his house is not the richer but the poorer, because the house takes possession of him.
---655---
Public opinion is but a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinions.
---656---
No matter how hard your life is, please face it and live well; don't escape from it or curse it. It is not as bad as you are.
---657---
Because I think that a person who lives sincerely and honestly must live in a faraway place.
---658---
Those who, through ignorance or error, live in endless worry and heavy labor all day long are doomed to fail to gather the sweet fruits of life.
---659---
Reality is often lively and sublime. By closing their eyes, being infatuated, and allowing themselves to be deceived by shadows, human beings have established the trajectories and habits of their daily lives, following them everywhere, but in fact they are built on a pure, imaginary foundation. Children who live playfully are more able to discover the laws and true relationships of life than adults, who cannot live meaningfully and think they are smarter because they have experience, which means that they often fail.
---660---
We have no idea where we are and we spend half our lives asleep, yet we still praise ourselves for how wise we are and what a perfect order we have established on Earth.
---661---
To make a living in this world is not a painful errand but a delightful recreation, provided you live simply and wisely.
---662---
I have no intention of writing an ode to depression. I just want to be like a rooster that crows at the dawn, perched on the shed, and crows loudly, even if it only wakes up my neighbors.
---663---
Compared with those weathered ruins, written records have a more mature autumn beauty because they are a self-contained system that spreads those deeds all over the world and protects them from the erosion of time.
---664---
No matter what failures you have done in the past, "Don't be sad, kid, because no one can assign you to do what you have failed to accomplish."
---665---
The human body is like a furnace, and food is the fuel that keeps the inner combustion in the lungs going.
---666---
I am no more lonely than the loon that laughs loudly in the lake.
---667---
There are no visible traces of human hands, but the lake water still washes the shore, unchanged for a thousand years.
Lakes are the eyes of the earth. Gazing into them, one can measure the depth of his own nature.
---668---
Blind obedience is the lowest form of stupidity. Don't think about it.
---669---
Let us spend every day of our lives calmly like nature, and not be disturbed by some insignificant things in life. Make up your mind to live every day calmly and fully.
---670---
The good qualities of people are like the bloom on fruit, and can only be preserved with great care.
---671---
Nine times out of ten the rock a nation cuts is used only for his grave. He buried himself alive.
---672---
When the sun rises, everything becomes clear. It is never too late to abandon our prejudices.
---673---
No way of thinking or doing things, no matter how ancient, is worth following blindly.
---674---
Individuals, like nations, must have suitably broad and natural boundaries between them, and even a considerable neutral zone.
---675---
If we do not wake up to a higher life than we had before we went to bed, then there is nothing to look forward to during the day, and it is not even day; if this is the case, the darkness has borne its fruits, and the light is no better than the darkness.
---676---
Let us get up early in the morning, eat breakfast or not, be calm and peaceful; let the guests come and go, let the bells ring, let the children cry - determined to spend the day well. Why do we compromise, even go with the flow?
---677---
I found that chatting with my friends who lived across the lake was a great luxury.
---678---
It is not enough to be industrious, so are the ants. What are you industrious for? -Henry Thoreau.
---679---
What we should give is our courage, not our despair; our health and calmness, not our disease. And we must not allow our disease to spread through infection.
---680---
It is not often that people go hungry, but that they suffer from want of luxuries, not from want of necessities.
---681---
The so-called resignation to fate is the accustomed despair.
---682---
Sometimes I feel that in nature you can find the sweetest, tenderest, most innocent and touching companions in anything, even in the most cynical and depressed creatures.
---683---
They are as wise in their experience of nature as the city dwellers are in their affectations.
---684---
In the barbaric era, primitive humans lived a simple life, naked, but at least this had the advantage that they were always just a passer-by in nature.
---685---
Sometimes I feel desperate. In this world, some things are actually very simple, but they need the intervention of others to achieve them.
---686---
Spring has arrived, but we are still living in winter
---687---
When the farmer owned the house, he was not richer but poorer, because the house owned him.
---688---
The so-called successful life that people admire is actually just a kind of life
---689---
Suffering reveals to us the meaning of life, just like the appearance of light in the dark sky.
---690---
Without clothes, could you point out with certainty who is noble in any group of civilized people?
---691---
Man wants a home, a place to give him warmth or comfort. He wants physical warmth first, and then emotional warmth.
---692---
The so-called price refers to the part of life needed to exchange for goods, either now or later.
---693---
What people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can.
Everyone says you can't do it, but you try and find out that you can.
---694---
Human beings need a family, a warm and comfortable place. Of course, there should be physical warmth first and then emotional warmth.
---695---
Any kind of nobility, when it begins to appear, will immediately purify a person's face, while any kind of meanness or indulgence, when it begins, will degenerate into beastliness.
---696---
When you are the richest, time determines who you will meet in your life, your heart determines who you want to appear in your life, and your actions determine who will stay in the end.
Your life is poorest when you are richest. A faultfinder can find faults even in paradise.
---697---
A person always has many things. The more he can let go of them, the richer he will be.
---698---
This positive life motto should be embraced: to continuously improve one's perception of what is essentially eternal.
---699---
Human creations are different from nature and ultimately cannot be integrated into the natural cycle, but accumulate around us.
---700---
The spiritual reform is to try to dispel sleepiness. If people are not in a state of drowsiness, why do they give such a dull account of what they do during the day? They are not such poor calculators. If they were not drowsy with sleep, they would have done something. Millions are awake enough for physical labor; but only one in a million is awake enough for effective intellectual activity; and only one in a hundred million is awake enough for poetry or the sacred life.
---701---
The light that makes us lose our sight is darkness to us. Only when we open our eyes and wake up, does the sky become bright.
---702---
The best part of human nature, like the early frost on fruit, requires our most tender care to preserve it.
---703---
The more a person lets go, the richer he is.
---704---
People's needs are not what to deal with, but what to do, or why.
---705---
No way of thinking or behaving in the world, no matter how old, can be trusted unless it is proven.
---706---
I feel sorry for his misfortune and angry at his lethargy.
---707---
We often hear that winter is likened to a brutal tyrant. In fact, he is decorating the long hair of summer with the tender heart of a lover.
---708---
Intellect is a cleaver, which, having distinguished, cuts through the cracks to the secret of things. I do not want to keep my hands unnecessarily busy. My head is my hands and feet. I feel where my best faculties are concentrated. My instinct tells me that my head is an organ of digging, and as some animals dig with their trunks and forepaws, I dig with my head, digging my way through the mountain. I think the richest vein of ore is near here; so I make a judgment based on the divining rod and the rising mist: I will start digging here.
---709---
Live a free, unconstrained life whenever possible.
---710---
The evil deeds people do will be remembered by others after they die.
---711---
Anyone traveling alone can leave today; but anyone traveling with another person must wait until that person is ready, which may take a long time.
---712---
Men seldom listen to their nature, but when it leads them astray, they listen again, and the result is physical decay. Yet perhaps no one will regret it, for these lives are in accordance with higher laws. If you greet the day and night with joy, and your life is as fragrant as flowers and herbs, more elastic, more starry, more immortal - that is your success. All nature celebrates you, and you have reason to bless yourself for the time being. The greatest benefits and values are often unappreciated. We easily doubt their existence. We quickly forget them. They are the highest realities. Perhaps the most amazing and true facts are never communicated from man to man. The truest harvest of my life every day is as elusive and inexpressible as the morning glow and evening mist. I have only gained a little dust, and I have only grasped a piece of rainbow.
---713---
Those who are condemned are the minority and the disadvantaged.
How many just and brave people are there among the majority?
---714---
Every morning is a joyful invitation to make my life as simple, or perhaps I might say, as pure, as Nature herself.
But if we are not awakened by our own gifts, but by the mechanical nudging of some servant; if it is not the new strength and inner need within us that awakens us, neither the fragrance in the air nor the echoing music of nature, but the whistle of the factory that awakens us - if we do not wake up with a higher life than when we went to bed, then such a day, even if it can be called a day, would be hopeless.
I went to the woods because I wished to live carefully, to face only the essential facts of life, and to see if I had not learned what life had to teach me, and not to discover, when I came to die, that I had not lived at all.
The life which men admire and regard as a success is but one kind of life. Why should we exaggerate one kind and disparage the other?
---715---
What every man declares or takes for granted today as eternal truth may be proved to be a falsehood tomorrow, a mere black smoke instead of the rain-clouds which some once thought would bring down showers upon their fields.
---716---
It is much more important to understand things that will never go out of style!
---717---
For it is only once that one turns around in this world with eyes closed that one loses his way—and then fully appreciates the immensity and wonder of nature. Whether one awakens from sleep or absent-mindedness, one needs to look at the degree on the compass again. Only when we lose our way, that is, only when we lose the world, do we begin to discover ourselves, to realize our situation, and to realize the infinite scope of our relationships.
---718---
The life that people praise and consider as a successful life is just one type of life. Why should we exaggerate one type of life at the expense of other lives?
---719---
Only the blowing wind is all that man knows.
---720---
Nothing can sink a simple and brave man into vulgar sorrow. While I enjoy the friendship of the four seasons, I believe nothing can make life a burden to me.
---721---
It is a person's view of himself that determines or indicates his destiny.
---722---
It is never too late to give up prejudice. No matter how old the ideas and ways of doing are, they cannot be trusted without verification.
---723---
One of the characteristics of wisdom is not to do desperate things.
---724---
Love is trying to turn the dream world into reality.
Love is trying to make the dream world become reality.
---725---
It is reading that requires us to tiptoe and devote our most alert and sober moments to them.
---726---
Our clothes become more and more integrated with us every day, and bear the stamp of the wearer's character, until we are no more willing to discard them than we are to discard our bodies, and will hasten to remedy them with medicine or similar solemn measures.
---727---
We should have the courage to grow.
---728---
No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted unless it is proved. What every man to-day accepts as true, or ignores in silence, may be proved to be false to-morrow, and is but the mist of opinion, which some believe is a cloud that will sprinkle their fields with fertile rain.
---729---
You can't find health in human society, but you can find it in nature. If it weren't for the fact that we at least have our feet standing in the middle of nature, our faces would have been pale and lifeless.
---730---
Sometimes, we tend to lump extremely intelligent people into the same category as those who have only a superficial understanding because we can only understand one-third of their wisdom.
---731---
“Most people live in quiet desperation.”
---732---
If anyone is sad for a just reason, all nature is moved, the sun's light dims, the wind sighs in sympathy, the clouds shed tears, the woods shed their leaves in midsummer and put on mourning.
---733---
We no longer camp at night, we settle safely on the earth and ignore the sky.
---734---
I went to the woods because I wished to live cautiously, to face only the essential facts of life, and to see if I could not learn what life had to teach me, or else discover, when I came to die, that I had not lived at all.
---735---
Rather than Love ,than Money ,than Faith ,than Fame .......... Give me Truth !
---736---
Sad people, do not live in sorrow, life is a daughter of Toscar, beautiful but fleeting
---737---
I have no intention of writing a hymn to gloom; I would rather crow like a cock at dawn on his roost, if only to wake up my neighbors.
---738---
I have no intention of writing a hymn to gloom; I would rather crow like a cock at dawn on his roost, if only to wake up my neighbors.
---739---
Everyone is familiar with the fruits shipped from the south or east in the market, and they can be called out by name, such as oranges, lemons, pineapples, etc. In my opinion, those inconspicuous wild berries are more attractive. When their ripe season comes, I never miss the opportunity to pick them in the wild. Being able to taste their deliciousness is also a pleasure of traveling in the wild.
---740---
I am not saying that John or Jonathan fully understood this; but because they did not, morning was only the passing of time, not the true dawn. The sunlight that caused us to close our eyes was darkness to us. Only when we were awake was it truly dawning. Sunrise did not necessarily mean light. The sun was only a morning star.
---741---
Not money, not faith, not fame, not fairness...give me the truth.
---742---
The light that blinds us is our darkness. Only when we awaken will the dawn break. And it is not just the dawn that breaks. The sun is only a morning star.
---743---
The soul may misunderstand its identity due to its situation until the truth is revealed by a sage, and then it will know that it is a Brahman.
---744---
We often say that a person's clothes are so torn that they have formed seeds, which may mean that they are as wasted as a plant that produces seeds - but it is also possible that they are unclean because they are clinging to many seeds.
---745---
Thanks to wealth and politics, the city spent seventeen thousand dollars on the city government, but perhaps it will not spend so much for the real meat in the shell of life's wisdom for a hundred years. One hundred and twenty-five dollars are collected every year for the winter grammar school, which is better spent than any other donation of the same amount in the city. We live in the nineteenth century, why can't we enjoy the benefits of the nineteenth century? Why must life be so narrow? If we want to read newspapers, why not skip the Boston gossip and subscribe to the best newspaper in the world right away? Don't suck the soft food from the "neutral" newspaper, and don't eat the delicate "olive branch" in New England.
---746---
I went into the jungle because I wanted to live my life with purpose, to face only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not grasp what life had to teach me, rather than discover, when I died, that I had never lived.
---747---
People live in despair. The so-called resignation is a kind of deep-rooted despair. You go from the city of despair to the country of despair, and you have to comfort yourself with the courage of minks and muskrats.
---748---
When the sun rises, all things become bright.
---749---
Now, let us not suppose that the fruits of New England are of low value, and that only those of foreign countries are of high value, and worthy of immortality. Whatever it is, what grows and grows at home is of greater value to us than what grows and grows elsewhere. We learn and nourish by these fruits. Wild strawberries, wild apples, walnuts, and peanuts do more to teach us than imported pineapples, oranges, cocoa, and almonds, not to mention that the latter are superior in taste and aroma.
---750---
There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.
---751---
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.
---752---
Some people walk differently because they hear drums in the distance.
---753---
I fear that my words and sentences are not sufficiently radical, that they do not transcend the narrow boundaries of everyday experience, and that they are insufficient to convey the truth in which I firmly believe.
---754---
Let us live each day as leisurely as nature, and not be derailed by a nut on the rail or a mosquito wing that falls on the track.
---755---
-------Just turn the faucet or pull out the plug and you can get their Walden Pond!
That diabolical iron horse, whose piercing neighing could be heard throughout the town—the one who muddied the waters of the Boiling Spring with his hoofs, and who had eaten up all the woods along the shore of Walden Pond; that Trojan horse, with a thousand men in his belly, brought in by the mercenary Greeks!
Where is the champion of this country, Moore of Moore Hall? He should fight it in the depths, and drive a spear of revenge between the ribs of the bloated vermin.
---756---
Sometimes I would stroll into the pine forest. The pine trees were like towering temples or a fleet of ships with sails hoisted on the sea. Their dense branches undulated like waves and reflected the sparkling light like ripples.
---757---
Hypocrisy and fallacy are promoted as perfect truth, and reality becomes fiction.
---758---
There lay life, for me a largely unexperienced experiment; and though the older generation had had experience of it, it did not help me. If I had any experience that I considered valuable, I am sure that my old mentors never even mentioned it.
---759---
The sunlight that we lose is darkness to us. Only when we open our eyes and wake up, the sky will be bright. There are many days when the sun is bright, and the sun is just a morning star.
---760---
I don't believe that plants will grow where there are no seeds, but I have great faith in seeds. If you can believe that you have a seed, I will expect a miracle to emerge.
---761---
Pursue your dreams with confidence and live the life of your dreams. Simplify your life and the laws of the universe will become simple too.
---762---
Time is but a stream in which I fish. I drink from the stream, but as I drink I see its sandy bed and see how shallow it is. Its trickle flows away, but eternity remains. I want to drink further, I want to fish in the sky, whose riverbed is paved with pebbles of stars. I cannot count a single pebble.
---763---
People say they are well-informed;
Look, they have wings--
Art, science,
There are thousands of skills.
In fact, there was only a gust of wind blowing by.
That's all they've seen.
---764---
He lost a dog, but found a man.
---765---
Only from that vantage point which we call voluntary poverty can a man be an impartial or an informed observer.
---766---
Every morning is a delightful invitation to live as simple, or perhaps I might say, as pure, as nature itself.
---767---
We often imagine that in some remote and more mysterious corner of the cosmic system, behind the five bright stars of Cassiopeia, far away from the hustle and bustle, there is a rare and pleasant place.
---768---
The richest person is the one who can find happiness everywhere.
---769---
At daybreak, people walk on the crisp snow, carrying fishing rods and simple lunches to go fishing. These people are wild by nature, creating their own way of life instinctively... Their simplicity is as smart as the city people's roundabouts. They don't believe in book knowledge. What they know and can say is far less than what they do, and no one knows what they have done.
---770---
Be wary of businesses that demand new clothes but not new wearers.
---771---
I have seen the years pass by. After enduring winter, spring comes.
---772---
From this peak I have looked across the lake at the Sudbury prairie, and in flood days, perhaps it was an illusion caused by the rolling white-capped river valley, it always seemed to me that the prairie looked like copper coins in a basin of water, and the land around Walden Pond was like a thin crust of bread, which even this little flood could separate and float them.
---773---
In a day, the early morning is the most worth remembering and commemorating, for it is a time when all things wake up.
---774---
We always say that this way of life is unique, but there are as many ways of living as there are radii that can be drawn from the center of a circle.
---775---
What would a field be without rabbits and partridges? They are the simplest native animals.
---776---
On a pleasant spring morning, all the sins of the world are forgiven. This is the day when sin dies. The sunshine warms the heart so much that even the bad may turn back. We ourselves have regained our innocence, and we can see the innocence of our neighbors.
---777---
One generation abandons the cause of another generation like leaving a stranded ship.
---778---
Spend the best time of your life making money in order to enjoy the little bit of questionable freedom in your least precious time.
---779---
There is a hill near by, the top of which has been lately cleared of trees, and from the ridge one can enjoy a pleasant view southward toward Walden Pond, where the slopes of the mountains slope down gently, and it looks as if a stream flows through the wooded valley, but there is no stream.
---780---
Walden Pond is a deep, clear, green well, a never-failing spring amidst a forest of pine and oak, with no apparent input or output except from clouds, rain, and evaporation.
---781---
Time is but the brook in which I fish. I drink its water; but as I drink, I look down into the sandy bottom and see how shallow it is. The shallow waters slip away quietly, but eternity lasts. I would drink deeply; fish in the sky, where the bottom is strewn with pebbly stars.
---782---
We worship neither the Graces nor the Persians, but the goddess of fashion. She spins, weaves, and cuts with perfect authority. The king monkey of Paris puts on a traveler's cap, and all the monkeys of America follow suit.
---783---
Every man is the architect of a temple, which is his body, and he worships the gods in his own way, and even if he carves marble, he cannot do without his temple. We are all sculptors and painters, and the material we use is our flesh and bones. Noble character makes a man's appearance elegant at once, while meanness or lewdness makes him a beast at once.
---784---
In those days, I was always busy, so I seldom read. Even so, some small pieces of paper and documents scattered on the ground, or even a few words printed on the tablecloth, made me feel happy when I read them, as if I were reading a masterpiece like "The Iliad".
---785---
Only after nightfall do people return home from the neighboring fields or the streets to listen to the familiar echoes at home. Their vitality is becoming increasingly fragile because it has not been renewed; at dawn and dusk, their shadows reach farther than their daily footsteps. We should return home every day with new experiences and new personalities from afar, from adventures, dangers and discoveries.
---786---
Once you turn your gaze inward, you will find that there are a thousand places in your heart that have yet to be discovered.
Then you travel there.
You will become an expert in family cosmology.
---787---
There are two types of illiteracy: those who cannot read at all and those who can only read children's books and books for the mentally handicapped.
---788---
I have never dreamed of a greater crime than I have committed. I have never known, and never will know, a greater sinner than myself.
---789---
The scenery of Walden Pond is not very eye-catching. Although it is beautiful, it is not magnificent...
---790---
I haven't heard the old hen say
Hunters are not holy people.
---791---
Unless we are lost, or, in other words, unless we lose the world, we begin to discover ourselves, our situation, and the infinite implications of our various connections.
---792---
White Lake and Walden Pond are rare crystals on the earth and are lakes of light.
---793---
I do not intend to diminish anything from the praise of charity, I only want to treat all people fairly and equally, because their lives and labors are also a blessing to mankind.
---794---
If a person is sick, unable to function, or even has a pain in the intestines... he will want to reform - to reform the world.
---795---
If anyone cannot keep up with his companions, it is because he hears a different drum. Let him walk to the beat of the music he hears, no matter what it is, or how far he should go. It does not matter whether he should ripen as quickly as the apple tree or the oak. Should he turn his spring into summer?
---796---
The world is left to darkness and me
---797---
It's like weaving a dressing cushion for the end of the world, which can while away the time without harming eternity.
---798---
"As humanity progresses, it is bound to cease eating animals, just as savage tribes cease eating each other."
---799---
Our wisdom consists only in the accuracy of our aim, like the sailor or the runaway slave keeping his eyes fixed on the North Star; but this is sufficient to guide us through life. We may not reach our port in the calculated period, but we will keep the right course.
---800---
I don't want love, money, or fame, I only want the truth.
---801---
What do railways have to do with me?
I never watch
Where is the end.
It filled several hollows,
It became a bank for swallows,
It makes the dust fly,
Let the blackberries grow.
---802---
A hero wears out his old shoes much longer than his servants do.
---803---
Let people around you come and go as they please, let the bells ring, let the children cry - make up your mind to live every day well
---804---
It's so strange to look at his wooden barrel, it's like seeing a lake in summer, as if he has locked up the summer and hidden it in his home, or as if he knows where the summer has hidden.
---805---
This world is but a canvas for our imagination.
---806---
Soul grows more by substraction than by addiction.
---807---
Without clothes, can you tell me exactly who among civilized people belongs to the noblest class?
---808---
There is only one kind of life that people praise and consider successful. Why should we exaggerate one of them by devaluing the others?
---809---
It is not the mouth that makes a man dirty, but the greedy appetite that makes him dirty
---810---
We live too crowded, like plants planted too closely together, interfering with and tripping over each other, so I think we may have lost respect for each other. Less frequent and important exchanges are certainly enough... A person's value is not in his skin, so there is no need to touch it all the time.
---811---
If you do not find the ground you stand on lovelier than any other place in this, or any other world, I do not think there is any hope for you.
---812---
Every morning is a joyful invitation to live as simply, and one might say as purely, as Nature.
---813---
If the spirit has left the body, it is no different than building your own coffin.
---814---
Negative people can find flaws even in heaven.
---815---
Man was born. Was it the Creator who created
A better world, creating man from the seed of God;
Or the earth has just fallen from the high sky,
But it retains some seeds of the same Heaven.
---816---
Only when we are forever integrated with reality can we understand the true meaning of truth and sublimity.
---817---
Everything that exists can be expressed easily and naturally in common language.
---818---
There are so many days when the sun rises, and the sun is just a morning star.
---819---
Time is the stream where I fish
---820---
They had heard the baying of the hound, the tramp of the bay horse, and even saw the turtledove disappear behind a cloud, and they seemed as anxious to find them as if they had lost them themselves.
---821---
I go to the woods. I want to live my life to the fullest. I want to live my life to the fullest.
---822---
The life of the masses is one of quiet despair. What is called resignation is a confirmed despair. From the desperate city you pass into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of the mink and the muskrat. A rigid but unconscious despair is even concealed under the so-called games and amusements of mankind. There is no play in them, for that comes after work. But one of the characteristics of wisdom is to do desperate things.
---823---
Why do we always think about how to get more of these things, instead of sometimes being satisfied with less?
---824---
Whether alive or dead, we crave only reality. If we are really dying, let us hear our death-throats and feel our limbs grow cold; if we are alive, let us go about our business.
---825---
What hope is there for the day, if it may be called a day, if life is no nobler when we wake than when we sleep?
---826---
Every tree has its own fruits and its own season, flourishing and blossoming while the season lasts, and withering and dying when the season is not in season; the cypress is not affected by either, but flourishes forever, and this is the nature of the azads, or religious independents. - Do not set your heart on transient things; for the Dijlah, or Tigris, will continue to flow through Baghdad after the extinction of the caliphate's family: if you have plenty in your hands, be generous like the date palm; but if you have nothing in your hands to give, be like the cypress. Be an azad, or free man.
---827---
I want as many different people as possible in the world; I want each one to be very careful to find and follow his own way of life, not that of his father or mother or his neighbors. A young man may build a house, plant a field, or sail, as long as it does not prevent him from telling me what he wants to do. Our wisdom lies only in the accuracy of our goal, like the sailor or the runaway slave's eyes fixed on the North Star; but this is enough to guide us throughout our lives. We may not reach our port in the calculated period, but we will keep the right course.
---828---
I have great faith in seeds. If you let me believe that you have a seed, I will expect miracles to appear in life.
---829---
If the whistle blows, let it blow till it's hoarse. If the bell rings, why should we run? Why should we listen to the music? Let us settle down and push our feet down through the mire of opinion and prejudice and tradition and deception and appearance, the silt that covers the earth, through Paris and London, through New York and Boston and Concord, through church and state, through poetry and philosophy and religion, until we reach the hard bottom and the solid rock that we can call reality, and say, this is it, it's all right.
---830---
My life is a multi-act drama, with ever-changing scenes and a never-ending curtain.
---831---
Only by a lifetime of penetration and complete immersion in the reality that surrounds us can we understand what is sublime and noble. The universe is constantly and obediently adapting to our ideas. Whether we move fast or slow, the track has been paved for us. So let us use our lives to understand.
---832---
The air is filled with invisible crossbows. Except for your own path, every path is destined by fate. So follow your own path.
---833---
Isn't it that man roots himself so firmly in the earth in order to be able to reach out to the sky as well?
---834---
If we are not awakened by our own creative powers, but by the mechanical push of some servant; if we are awakened not by the inner strength and the burning desire which we have acquired, accompanied by the rhythm of celestial music and the fragrance that permeates the air, but by the ringing of factory bells - if we do not wake up to a higher life than when we went to sleep; then the day, if it can be called a day, has little hope. In this case, the night will bear fruit and prove itself to be beneficial, no less than the day. He who does not believe that every day has an earlier and more sacred dawning hour that he has not yet defiled, is a man who has despaired of life and is on a path that leads downwards and darker.
---835---
Reading good books, that is, reading ideal books that deserve the name, is a noble exercise that tires the reader more than any of the sports that are fashionable today.
---836---
I have no desire to sit in the cabin; I think it would be better for me to stand on the mast and deck of the world, for from there I can see more clearly the beautiful scenery among the mountains in the moonlight.
---837---
We should never treat sincerity with false courtesy. If there are valuable and friendly seeds, we should never be mean to deceive, insult, and exclude each other. We should not meet in such a hurry.
---838---
The beauty in human nature is like the frost on fruit, which is difficult to preserve.
---839---
When the cold wind struck my left cheek, I turned my right cheek to it, even though I was a pagan.
---840---
The sweet intoxication failed to dispel the memories of the past, but only soaked them and made them bloated and bloated with water.
---841---
No method or rule can replace the necessity of eternal vigilance. Always see what can be seen.
---842---
Now that the train has passed, and the restless world has gone with it, and the fish in the lake no longer feel the rumbling vibrations, I am more lonely than ever.
---843---
For every thousand persons who cut off the branches of evil, only one is cutting off its root. It is very likely that the person who has spent the most time and money on the poor is the one who has done the most to create poverty in his own way, and his efforts are in vain.
---844---
The morning wind blows constantly, and the poems of Genesis continue; but there are few ears to hear it. Heaven is the outside of the earth, and it is everywhere.
---845---
Who has not seen the salted fish that has been so thoroughly pickled by this world that nothing can spoil it, making even the persevering saints blush with shame?
---846---
What space can separate a man from others, and make him feel lonely? I find that no effort of two legs can bring two hearts closer. What do we most want to live near? It is certainly not near a large number of people, the station, the post office, the bar, the church, the school, the grocery store, the Beacon Hill, or the Five Points, where there are a lot of people, but near our everlasting source of life, from which we find in all experience that life comes; like a willow standing by the water, its roots stretching toward the water. Different natures will be different, but a wise man will dig his cellar in such a place.
---847---
The stars are the vertices of what a strange triangle! Among the various constellations in the universe, there are so many distant and different lives gazing at the same star at the same time.
---848---
Will you be just a reader, a student, or a prophet? Predict your destiny, see what you face, and move forward into the future.
---849---
If people respect reality and are not deceived by dreams, then our lives will be infinitely more enjoyable than our current lives.
---850---
The most beautiful parts of our nature require the most careful care to preserve them intact.
---851---
In the midst of brilliant success, the interests of the lowest groups are often sacrificed.
---852---
Once we start counting costs, the costs have already begun.
---853---
What? How? When? Where?
---854---
Anyone who lives among nature and is aware of its beauty cannot have endless sorrow.
---855---
As long as we have the consciousness of effort in our hearts, we can far surpass all actions and their consequences. All good and bad things will flow past us like a big river.
---856---
And if the pursuits of civilized man are no more valuable than those of savages, if the greater part of his life is spent in obtaining all the necessaries and comforts of life, why should he have better housing than the savage?
---857---
In fact, standing on tiptoe I could see the bluer peaks of the mountains farther northwest, pure blue coins struck in Heaven’s mint, and I could see a corner of the village.
---858---
A person's value does not lie in his outer skin, so there is no need for us to touch each other.
---859---
It reminds us that there is a vast, boundless, instinctive world in the human heart that has never been explored. It symbolizes the absolute foolish darkness and the insatiable desires that everyone has.
---860---
There is no smell worse than that of stale charity. It is the smell of the decaying corpse of a man's god.
---861---
The morning is my awakening hour, the dawn is in my heart. Moral reform is the effort to abandon sleep.
---862---
The morning brings back the heroic age.
---863---
Walking through the dense forests filled with these interesting fruits, each bush looked more beautiful than the previous one.
You can also see squirrels leaving empty husks on rocks and tree stumps.
If you dig up old tree roots in a grove, even if they are completely rotten and only have a hollow to show their presence, you will not find any rotten wood or bark at all, and the spade will not meet any resistance. Under this hollow you will find intact tunnels radiating from it, and the root bark is used as a wall, which will not deteriorate even if a hundred years pass. These tunnels are underground passages used by squirrels and voles to their nests and granaries, and may have been used by several generations. The holes above lead to these tunnels. In fact, the old stumps may be less old than these tunnels, but to mice, every old stump is a city. The holes inside and outside the stumps are full of nut shells and fruits. Although you may not see a living thing in the woods, there are a lot of acorn shells under many oak trees.
---864---
Gray blueberry bushes are stately as oak trees - why aren't their berries poisonous? They have the strangest taste of any cranberry I've ever picked. It's like eating a poisonous berry that your nature has made poisonous. I get the same pleasure from it as from calla lilies and poison hemlock, as if I were the universal antidote and no berry's poison had any effect on me.
---865---
Although there are relatively few small pines in dense pine forests, they are always abundant in the open areas near the forests. In the pine forest, the ratio of small five-needle pines to small pines is 100:1, but at the edge of the forest, the ratio is reversed, and you can find that the ratio of small pines to small five-needle pines is 100:1. Small pines love the sun too much.
---866---
At this time, I saw two huge ants, one was bright red, and the other was very large, about half a foot long and black. They were fighting each other fiercely. Once they started fighting, neither of them would give up. They just kept fighting and wrestling, rolling back and forth in the pile of small wood chips.
---867---
If I want to be alone, I must escape now - I have to be careful. How can I be alone in the mirror hall of the Roman emperor? I would rather find an attic. There, even spiders will not be disturbed, and there is no need to sweep the floor or pile up firewood. "
---868---
The more things a person can let go of, the richer he is.
---869---
In the heavy snow, there was no road leading to the door of the front yard, nor was there any road leading to the civilized world.
---870---
Books are the world's precious wealth and an excellent heritage of the country and history.
---871---
When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, --that petty fears and petty pleasure are but the shadow of reality.
---872---
I went to the woods. I wanted to live my life to the fullest, to live deeply, to absorb all that was marrow in life… to kill off any distractions, not to realize, on my deathbed, that I had never lived.
---873---
The kind of life that people praise and regard as successful is actually just one kind of life. Why should we exaggerate one kind of life and belittle others?
---874---
Let them wander and study the foreign Australians,
I know more about God, and they know more about the way.
---875---
The setting sun falls on the windows of the rich and the poor alike, and is equally brilliant; the snow melts in front of everyone's doorstep alike in the spring.
---876---
I went to the woods because I wanted to live my life with some purpose, to face just the essential facts of life, and see if I couldn't learn what it had to teach me so that, when I lay dying, I wouldn't feel that I had wasted my life.
---877---
I could have opposed society "like a murderer"; but I would rather let this society oppose me "like a murderer", since this society is already on the desperate side anyway.
---878---
Our inventions are often pretty toys, distracting us from serious matters.
---879---
Doing good is almost the only virtue that is respected by human beings. No, it is even over-respected, and the reason we respect it is actually because we are selfish!
---880---
You must live in the present moment, let yourself ride every wave, and find your eternity in every moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunity, trying to find another land. But you have no other life except this one.
---881---
How to describe it? It stood there, like an Indian chief, looking out for the last time at his favorite hunting grounds.
---882---
If the hunter likes turtles, muskrats, and other such game, the lady likes ox-trotter jellies, or sardines from the sea, and there is no difference between the two. The hunter goes to the mill-pond, the lady to her jellied pot. It is surprising how they can eat and drink this filthy beastly life, and how I can eat and drink this filthy beastly life.
---883---
If we take age into account, don't animals, like humans, also have a kind of civilization?
---884---
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
---885---
Such is life, an experiment which I have not tried to a great extent; which they have tried, but to no avail to me.
---886---
We should be like curious travelers, often looking at the scenery at the stern of our ship, instead of being like foolish sailors who only focus on picking up the linseed to fill the seams of the ship during the voyage.
---887---
I want to live deeply, to suck out all the marrow of life, to live a hard, Spartan life, to remove everything that is not life, to cut out large tracts and trim them carefully, to drive life into a corner, to reduce it to the lowest possible level, and if life proves to be mediocre, then to recognize and publicize its true mediocrity in all its glory; and if life is sublime, then to experience it personally and to give a true record of it on my next trip.
---888---
Most people live in quiet desperation.
---889---
The present American government is actually a traditional form. Although the people are new, it strives to transmit itself intact to the next generation, and loses its integrity every moment.
---890---
We should live our lives with the gentleness and grace of picking a flower.
Friends asked me what I was doing at Flint Lake in Lincoln. Isn't watching the cycle of seasons a profession?
---891---
Only the sober and healthy remember: the sun rises and everything is bright.
---892---
You can't live on just vegetables because the nutrients they provide won't make you grow bones - and cows grow bones by eating grass.
---893---
There are as many ways of living as there are radii that can be drawn from a circle.
---894---
But the reason for their labor is wrong. Their bodies will soon be buried in the earth and become fertilizer. They are willing to be at the mercy of what is usually called fate, and become very greedy, as some old book says, accumulating treasures that will be eaten by moths and rust, and stolen by thieves.
---895---
Perhaps there exists for us a book which explains our wonders and reveals new wonders. We may find that what we cannot express in words has already been expressed elsewhere. The questions which entangle, perplex, and puzzle us have also been asked by all wise men; without exception; and each of them has answered them according to his own ability, in his own language and in his own life.
---896---
I believe that no one would stretch the seams when wearing clothes, because clothes are comfortable only when they fit well.
---897---
The student who deliberately seeks to obtain the leisure he has long coveted by evading any necessary human labor, obtains only a shameful and useless leisure, and deprives himself of the only experience that can make leisure beneficial.
---898---
It's as if you can kill time without harming eternity.
---899---
If we knew all the laws of nature, we should need only one fact, or description of one actual phenomenon, from which we could infer all the particular consequences.
---900---
The minority obeys the majority because the majority is the most powerful in material terms.
---901---
"I was born noble, how can I be manipulated by others?
Willing to obey,
Or a servant or a slave,
Let the king give orders."
—Shakespeare's King John, Act 5, Scene 2
---902---
Unless a person can transcend himself,
Otherwise you can only survive in vain!
---903---
We say this is the only way, but there are as many ways as there are radii that can be drawn from a center.
---904---
The law has never made anyone just.
---905---
It was a sunny, peaceful morning, the lake smooth as a mirror, the only ripples coming from our paddling in. Through the pale blue mist we could see the dark hills on the lake's edge, with the shiny white trunks of paper birch trees mixed in with the other trees, and in an invisible western bay the joyful calls of loons playing, as if inspired by the beauty of the morning, drifted across the lake and reached our ears clearly.
---906---
The first time I climbed a mountain was so long ago that I can no longer remember the circumstances, except that I was trembling with fear during that solo ascent (I vaguely remember that I spent the night alone in the wild). I climbed up a rocky ridge, half covered with thin trees and infested with wild animals. Later, I lost myself in the clouds above and seemed to have crossed an imaginary line that distinguishes the small hills on the land from the majestic and majestic high mountains. It is the majesty and grandeur of the mountain top that separates it from the world. You never think you know it too well, but once you set foot in it, you will be lost. You know the way, but you can still get lost on the bare rock, just as you can get lost in the solid air and clouds. The rocky, misty, and cloud-covered mountain top is more awesome than an erupting volcano.
---907---
A person is not obliged to work towards eliminating mistakes, even serious ones, but he at least has the responsibility to withdraw from them.
---908---
Be there as the sun rises.
---909---
A good government makes life more valuable, while a bad government devalues life.
---910---
No work is unavoidable. Work can be postponed but it cannot be put on hold indefinitely.
---911---
Nature is indeed beautiful, but she is also cruel and terrible. I stand in awe of the earth beneath my feet, how the laws of nature have shaped it, made it into what form and texture it has. This is the little planet we know, born of explosions and long nights. This is not man's garden, the planet we have never tamed. This is not lawn, pasture, forest, plough, or wasteland, it is the fresh surface of nature, the past and the future, it is the dwelling of man, nature has created it, and man can use it in any way he wants. However, humans have a lot of connections with it, and it has become a huge and terrible thing. It is not what we call a "small water ball with a heart of its own", nor is it something that can be stepped on or buried by humans. On the contrary, it will even give birth to a corpse in the wilderness.
We can clearly feel that there is a kind of personal force that is unfriendly to humans. This is the beginning of idolatry and superstition. I am in awe of my body and feel unfamiliar with the body that binds me.
---912---
At dusk, I waited on the top of the field, waiting for the man to collapse.
---913---
We are always cautious in the morning, we pray reluctantly at night, but we treat our lives as if they were our own.
---914---
The governor of the state is not superior in wisdom or integrity, but is more powerful in material terms. I came to this world not to be threatened or driven by others. I came here to breathe in my own way.
---915---
The government's intention is often just to come up with a stopgap plan, but sometimes the government will come up with a plan that is not feasible, and sometimes the government will come up with a plan that is not feasible at all.
---916---
She began her life at the age of 18 by deliberately escaping the necessities of human labor, only to gain the long-coveted leisure, only to get a shameful amount of leisure, and to deprive herself of the only experience that could make leisure useful... We should not entertain life, or merely study life, which is supported by society. We should really recognize this expensive game, which is to experience life from the beginning and end.
---917---
No matter how good your heart and legs are, you can't get rid of your heart and energy...
---918---
We should not waste our time and energy on trivial matters, but should try to keep our lives simple and happy.
---919---
Simplify, simplify now. It doesn't have to be a 100-course meal, it doesn't have to be a small one; it doesn't have to be a 100-course meal, it's not 50-course meal; and ....
---920---
We put on a piece of clothing that she wore when she went to school, and it seemed like we were plants that grew up by adding little things to each other.
---921---
I was also easily moved by the plot of the drama. Her death at the age of ten is more related to my life. The reality of love and learning may not move me. I only know that I exist as a human being. It can be said that I am a stage to reflect my thoughts and feelings.
---922---
It's best to prevent it when the problem starts.
---923---
If a person has his own beliefs, no matter how difficult it is, he will always cooperate with others with the same beliefs; if he really has beliefs, no matter what kind of people he interacts with, he will always live his life in harmony with them.
---924---
It seems that all the shortcomings of character are hopeless and hopeless.
---925---
When the soldiers came over, the shell hit them, and the tattered clothes under their clothes were as noble as Ruan robes.
---926---
The luxury of one class is accompanied by the poverty of another.
---927---
It is not enough to be industrious, so are the ants. What are you industrious for?
---928---
If I ever said to myself that I wanted to break away from my career or focus on other issues, I would have to make sure that I wasn't riding on someone else's shoulders to chase my dreams. I would have to get off someone else's shoulders first so that I could focus on the issues that I cared about.