Excerpts
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Nothing can force a simple and brave man into vulgar sorrow. As long as I treat the four seasons as friends, I believe that nothing can make life a burden for me.
——Thoreau's "Walden"
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For us, the light that makes our eyes invisible is darkness. Dawn comes only when we are awake. There will be more dawns. The sun is nothing but a morning star.
——Thoreau's "Walden"
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I have never met a very sober person. How could I look directly at him? Where is the face?
——Thoreau's "Walden"
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He set a trap with a thin spring. Trying to live a comfortable and free life. But when he turned and walked away, one of his legs fell into a trap. This was the source of his poverty. For similar reasons, although we are surrounded by all kinds of luxuries, we are all poor compared with the savages who have a thousand comforts.
——Thoreau's "Walden"
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Wearing clothes obtained by hard work, there is no poverty at all.
——Thoreau's "Walden"
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Every morning is a pleasant invitation, making my life more like nature itself Equally simple, perhaps I might say, equally pure.
——Thoreau's "Walden"
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We may not be able to reach the destination port within an agreed time, but we always It’s possible to walk on a true course.
——Thoreau's "Walden"
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Trivial fears and fragmented joys are just shadows of reality. Reality is often lively and sublime. Because they closed their eyes, lost their minds, and allowed themselves to be deceived by their shadows, human beings established the tracks and habits of their daily lives and followed them from the smallest to the smallest. In fact, they were built on the basis of pure fantasy.
——Thoreau's "Walden"
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Sunrise does not necessarily mean light, and the sun is nothing more than a star. Only when we When you are awake, it is the real dawn. Some things are indeed necessities of life in some people's circles, but if they change to another circle, they become mere luxuries. If they change to another circle, they become completely unknown.
——Thoreau's "Walden"
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A pure sunshine in the scenery is the most beautiful scenery...you surround In the pasture of the fence, no one ran to have fun and revel. You never argued with others and never got into trouble. Wearing simple tawny gabardine clothes, you were still as docile as when we first met.
——Thoreau's "Walden"