The Blog of Henry David Thoreau: living by loving...Thoreau's Journal: 13-Mar-1853

3.13.2014

living by loving
...Thoreau's Journal: 13-Mar-1853

You must get your living by loving. To be supported by the charity of friends or a governmental pension is to go into the almshouse. To inherit property is not to be born,—is to be still-born rather.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...: "living by loving" is probably one of my favorite quotes and I think it really applies well to all peoples and is a timeless observation..... truly inspired.; Mar 13, 2009, 1:12:00 PM
michael jameson said...: living is loving, it does not matter who what or how many,if one is just handed everything he has no appreciacion, and is lost,one who toils for what he has,respects and has ties to it,the one who can walk into the forest and fall in love to the point of rapture is one of the wisest of men,the ones that understand and act on thisare truly blessed. michael jameson oldanyiqueguy@hotmail.con; Mar 13, 2010, 5:56:00 PM

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one of the native forces

“Thoreau was a surprising fellow—he is not easily grasped—is elusive: yet he is one of the native forces—stands for a fact, a movement, an upheaval: Thoreau belongs to America, to the transcendental, to the protesters: then he is an outdoor man: all outdoor men everything else being equal appeal to me. Thoreau was not so precious, tender, a personality as Emerson: but he was a force—he looms up bigger and bigger: his dying does not seem to have hurt him a bit: every year has added to his fame.”

~Walt Whitman as recorded by Horace Traubel

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The text is from The Journal of Henry David Thoreau, ed. Bradford Torrey and Francis Allen, 14 vols. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1906).

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