 If the day and the night are such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, more starry, more immortal, — that is your success.  Walden - Page 331by Henry David Thoreau - 1897Full view - About this book
 | 1854 - 616 pages
...consequences were to be regretted, for these were a life in conformity to higher principles. If the day and the night are such that you greet them with...your success. All nature is your congratulation. and yon have cause momentarily to bless yourself The greatest gains and values are farthest from being... | |
 | Conduct of life - 1856 - 386 pages
...consequences were to be regretted, for these were a life in conformity with higher principles. If the day and the night are such that you greet them with...greatest gains and values are farthest from being apprehended. We easily come to doubt if they exist. We soon forget them. They are the highest reality.... | |
 | Literature - 1879 - 360 pages
...simple and irrepressible satisfaction with the gift of life, any memorable praise of God. ... If the day and the night are such that you greet them with...joy, and life emits a fragrance, like flowers and sweet scented herbs — is more elastic, starry, and immortal — that is your success." ( Waiden,... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - American literature - 1880 - 76 pages
...simple and irrepressible satisfaction with the gift of life, any memorable praise of God. ... If the day and the night are such that you greet them with...flowers and sweetscented herbs, — is more elastic, starry, and immortal, — that is your success." NOTE. — The following passage is now first published,... | |
 | College students' writings, American - 1897 - 418 pages
...much stress on "listening to the faintest but constant suggestions of one's genius " : — " If the day and the night are such that you greet them with...starry, more immortal, — that is your success." 93 versa!, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him ; or the... | |
 | Peter Anderson Graham - Auteurs anglais - 1891 - 226 pages
...hygienic law and subdued his unclean sensual lusts. ' Tf the day and the night are such,' he says, ' that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance...more starry, more immortal — that is your success.' But if you reduce yourself to utter stillness, if you creep out of the world's strife and let Nature... | |
 | Katharine Lee Bates - American literature - 1897 - 436 pages
...he might, for obscure and harsh though it seemed to be, it held the ideal prizes : " If the day and night are such that you greet them with joy, and life...flowers and sweet-scented herbs — is more elastic, starry, immortal — that is your success." Thoreau is still the Only. Not the best of his disciples,... | |
 | george rice carpenter - 1898 - 498 pages
...simple and irrepressible satisfaction with the gift of life, any memorable praise of God. ... If the day and the night are such that you greet them with...flowers and sweet-scented herbs, — is more elastic, starry, and immortal, — that is your success." THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON STYLE IN WRITING A PERFECTLY... | |
 | George Rice Carpenter - American literature - 1898 - 494 pages
...simple and irrepressible satisfaction with the gift of life, any memorable praise of God. ... If the day and the night are such that you greet them with...flowers and sweet-scented herbs, — is more elastic, starry, and immortal, — that is your success." THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON STYLE IN WRITING A PERFECTLY... | |
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