 | Henry David Thoreau - 1978 - عدد الصفحات: 148
...three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society. Walden, "Visitors" I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion. Walden, "Economy" I had three pieces of limestone on my desk, but I was terrified to find that they... | |
 | Bob Phillips - 1993 - عدد الصفحات: 372
...happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over. Aneurin Bevan INDEPENDENCE I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be on a crowded velvet cushion. Henry David Thoreau INDIFFERENCE Once conform, once do what others do... | |
 | Abraham Moses Klein - 1994 - عدد الصفحات: 304
...esoteric literature. What does it show about his own estimate of himself. Of poetry born of books. I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than to be crowded on a velvet cushion. Thoreau. Qualifications i) solitariness 2) prophetic insight 3)... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1995 - عدد الصفحات: 360
...4 feminate natives of the Celestial Empire, which Jonathan should be ashamed to know the names of. I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion. I would rather ride on earth in an ox cart, with a free circulation, than go to heaven in the 5 fancy... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau, Kevin P. Van Anglen - 1996 - عدد الصفحات: 236
...(1863), in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, vol. 4, p. 461, Houghton Mifflin (1906). See also LABOR I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion. I would rather ride on earth in an ox cart, with a free circulation, than go to heaven in the fancy... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1996 - عدد الصفحات: 220
...effeminate natives of the Celestial Empire, which Jonathan should be ashamed to know the names of. I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion. I would rather ride on earth in an ox cart with a free circulation, than go to heaven in the fancy... | |
 | Craig Martin - 2000 - عدد الصفحات: 188
...tourist crowds. I've been an admirer of Henry David Thoreau ever since I read his words in Walden: "I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion." It's my nature to want a solitary stream experience, and I think the vast majority of other anglers... | |
 | Jennifer Hanson - 2002 - عدد الصفحات: 256
...details. The lesson's clear: Food wasn't meant for teeth alone. Here, a guide to its alternate uses: "I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion." Make good on Thoreau's assertion and avoid filling the coffers of Barcalounger, Inc. For a cozier fit... | |
 | Darrel Abel - 2002 - عدد الصفحات: 538
...incredibly little trouble" to obtain the necessities, and that he was happier without the superfluities. "I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion." He refused a lady's offer of a doormat, and wiped his feet on the grass, because "it is best to avoid... | |
 | Doug Hagedorn - 1989 - عدد الصفحات: 398
...it is necessary to get away from the pinball game of life once in a while. Control your own destiny. "I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion" —Thoreau Debt, stress, overload, and media suffocate us. The disease of busyness has crippled us... | |
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I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion. 
