None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
Henry David ThoreauRead
We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character.
Interpretation
Life is a journey of experiences that shape our character.
This quote by Henry David Thoreau emphasizes the importance of everyday experiences, adventures, and challenges in contributing to our personal growth and character development. It suggests that each day offers opportunities to learn and evolve, reinforcing the idea that life is an ongoing journey filled with valuable lessons.
In practice
In a speech about personal growth during a graduation ceremony.
None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling and spending their lives like servants.
An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
Have no mean hours, but be grateful for every hour, and accept what it brings. The reality will make any sincere record respectable.
As every season seems best to us in its turn, so the coming in of spring is like the creation of Cosmos out of Chaos and the realization of the Golden Age.
That grand old poem called Winter
People in general attach too much importance to words. They are under the illusion that talking effects great results. As a matter of fact, words are, as a rule, the shallowest portion of all the argument. They but dimly represent the great surging feelings and desires which lie behind. When the distraction of the tongue is removed, the heart listens.
Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one.
A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death.
Tradition, long conditioned thinking, can bring about a fixation, a concept that one readily accepts, perhaps not with a great deal of thought.
The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?
We say, and we say openly, and while ye torture us, mangled and gory we cry out, "We worship God through Christ!" Believe Him a man: it is through Him and in Him that God willeth Himself to be known and worshipped.
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