 | Henry David Thoreau - 1882 - 278 էջ
...statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful ; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To aff< day, that is the highest o: is tasked to make his life worth __ — . vated and critical 1; rather... | |
 | 1889 - 590 էջ
...in his work pf soul developments if he could constantly keep in mind this motto from Thorean : ' ' Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its...contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour. MEC OUR SCHOOL HOUSE, [To the writer of this paper was awarded the prize of Five Dollars according... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1890 - 174 էջ
...statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look,...quality of the day, — that is the highest of arts. w«j>i3«,p.9&. beauty Real Hie. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear ; nor... | |
 | Oakland (Calif.). First Unitarian Church. Ladies - 1891 - 108 էջ
...carve a statue, and so make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. —Thoreau. What we like determines what we are, and is the sign of what we are ; and to teach taste... | |
 | 1893 - 106 էջ
...carve a statue, and so make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we Can do. " — Thorcau. What we like determines what we are, and is the sign of what we are ; and to teach taste... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1899 - 386 էջ
...statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful ; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To effect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. Every man is tasked to make his life, even... | |
 | Emma Frances Angell Drake - 1902 - 240 էջ
...statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful ; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look,...its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most critical hour." And again he says, "We should impart our courage, and not our despair, our health and... | |
 | 1902 - 642 էջ
...ducks, we have " Walden," a treasure, a Koh-i-noor among books. He had lived the words before he said, " Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its...contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour." And the influence of this elevated and critical life throws its rays in every direction, forms prismatic... | |
 | George Rice Carpenter, William Tenney Brewster - 1904 - 508 էջ
...statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful ; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To effect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. Every man is tasked to make his life, even... | |
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It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect... 
