Babit Ballroom

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BOOKS
I would have my book read as I have read my favorite books,
Not with explosion & astonishment or a marvel and a rocket;
But a friendly & agreeable influence___
Stealing... like the scent of a flower or
The sight of a new landscape on a traveller.
Journals, October 1841

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Everything that exists...
Is in a manner__ the seed,
Of that which will be.

Palm ./\. Monday

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It is just that we should be grateful,
Not only to those with whose views we may agree,
But also to those who have expressed__
more superficial views.
For these also contributed something:
By developing before us__ the powers of thought.

Civil: Ground Sprouts

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“First: have a definite, clear, practical ideal; a goal or objective.
Second: have the necessary means to achieve your ends;
( wisdom, money, materials and methods).
Third: adjust ALL your means__ to that END.”

yet another flip?

Stokesia Pod

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"How far that little candle throws his beams!

So shines a good deed__ in a naughty world."

"What hath God wrought?"

Fire X Five

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"All I really need is love,
But a little chocolate now and then...
Doesn't hurt!"

Lucy Van Pelt from Peanuts

You Are Here (.)

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"How did it get so late so soon?
Its night before its afternoon.
December is here before its June.
My goodness how the time has flewn.
How did it get so late so soon?”

Blazin' 'Arbinger

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NATURE
In the woods, is perpetual youth.
Within these plantations of God,
A decorum and sanctity reign,
A perennial festival is dressed,
And the guest sees not how he...
Should tire of them in a thousand years.
Nature, Ch. 1 (1836, revised 1849)

Tober's Dog-berries

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BIBLE
"Make your own Bible (blog?).
Select & collect all those words & sentences that
In all your reading have been to you like the blast of a trumpet...
Out of Shakspear, Seneca, Moses, John, & Paul." (rwE)
Journals, July 1836

:East.lighted Moon:

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EQUALITY
We are all boarders at one table—
White man, black man, ox and eagle, bee, & worm.
Journals, July 13-14, 1840

Jumper~229.000.000

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For each ecstatic instant:
We must an anguish pay.
In keen and quivering ratio
To the ecstasy.

For each beloved hour:
Sharp pittances of years,
Bitter contested farthings
And coffers heaped with tears.

Digital Crispy

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Fear death?  To feel the fog in my throat and the mist in my face;
When the snows begin and the blasts denote I am nearing that place.
The power of the night, the press of the storm, the post of the foe;
Where he stands, the Arch Fear in a visible form yet the strong man must go:
For the journey is done and the summit attained and the barriers fall!
Though a battle's to fight ere the guerdon be gained; the reward of it all.
I was ever a fighter, so—one fight more, the best... and the last!
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I would hate that death bandaged my eyes and forbore and bade me creep past.
No!!!  Let me taste the whole of it, fare like my peers, those heroes of old.
Bear the brunt, in a minute pay glad life's arrears of pain, darkness and cold.
For sudden the worst turns the best to the brave. The black minute's at end
And the elements' rage. The fiend-voices that rave, shall dwindle, shall blend.
Shall change, shall become peace out of pain, then a light, then thy breast.
O thou soul of my soul! I shall clasp thee again and with ...God... be the rest!

...Phipp-a-light...

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...What am I? and What is?
asks the human spirit with a curiosity new-kindled,
but never to be quenched....
rwE said.

TROUT SCHOOL ~~~

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"Same Idea?"
note: It's NOT that current?

Christmas 1993

from rwE's Self-Reliance (1841)
note: KJH is my son.

"What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think!
This rule (equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life)
May serve the whole distinction between__ greatness or meanness?

It is the harder, because you will always find those who think
... they know what is your duty, better than you know it.

It is easy in the world: to live after the world's opinion;
It is easy in solitude: to live after our own opinion;

But the great man is he__ who in the midst of the crowd,
Keeps with perfect sweetness__ the independence of solitude."