 | Brander Matthews - 1896 - 270 lapas
...life is declared most clearly. The key to Thoreau' s philosophy is to be found in his saying that " a man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone." "I went to the woods," so he tells us, "because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential... | |
 | Vida Dutton Scudder - 1898 - 346 lapas
...such as Clough delightedly describes in his American letters, were the general instinct and practice. "A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone," said Thoreau. Perhaps the simplicity of life gained peculiar charm from a wistful prescience that it... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1899 - 386 lapas
...each blasted tree could be seen to the best advantage ; and then I let it lie, fallow perchance, for a man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone. My imagination carried me so far that 1 even had the refusal of several farms, — the refusal was... | |
 | Edwin Herbert Lewis - 1899 - 276 lapas
...mostly of the Anglo-Saxon race ; those who live in South America are mostly of some Latin 1 race. 3. A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone. — THOHEAU : Waldeii. 4. The second essential of dress is neatness. A selfrespecting man will not... | |
 | Edwin Herbert Lewis - 1902 - 392 lapas
...punctuate it at all. 1. The man •who hesitates is lost. 2. God helps those that help themselves. 3. A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone. An extra relative clause adds extra information about something already understood. Set it off by a... | |
 | Annie Russell Marble - 1902 - 408 lapas
...inelegance." Thoreau would, indeed, combat that term, " poor " ; his philosophy had taught him that " a man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone." If simplicity, sincerity, leisure, industry, contentment, were at the roots of his philosophy, itsV... | |
 | George Rice Carpenter, William Tenney Brewster - 1904 - 506 lapas
...each blasted tree could be seen to the best advantage ; and then I let it lie, fallow perchance, for a man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone. My imagination carried me so far that I even had the refusal of several farms, — the refusal was... | |
 | Nicholas Smith - 1905 - 308 lapas
...truly to play the man ; nor science so hard as to know how to live this life." A man is said to be rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone. This thought brought from an old philosopher the remark when passing a crowded bazaar in which everything... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1906 - 418 lapas
...each blasted tree could be seen to the best advantage; and then I let it lie, fallow perchance, for a man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone. My imagination carried me so far that I even had the refusal of several farms, — the refusal was... | |
 | Eva March Tappan - 1906 - 462 lapas
...his time to any profession. To be free, to read, and to live with nature, — that was happiness. " A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone," declared this philosopher of the wilderness. The few things that he could not "let alone," he supplied... | |
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I let it lie, fallow perchance, for a man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone. 
