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" In any weather, at any hour of the day or night, I have been anxious to improve the nick of time, and notch it on my stick too: to stand on the meeting of two eternities, the past and future, which is precisely the present moment; to toe that line. "
The Ohio Educational Monthly and the National Teacher: A Journal of Education - Page 246
1877
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Walden, Volume 1

Henry David Thoreau - 1882 - 278 pages
...it. I will only hint at some of the enterprises which I have cherished. In any weather, at any hour of the day or night, I have been anxious to improve...stand on the meeting of two eternities, the past and future, which is precisely the ptesent moment ; to toe that line. You will pardon some obscurities,...
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The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume 2

Henry David Thoreau - 1893 - 536 pages
...only hint at ECONOMT 29 some of the enterprises which I have cherished. In any weather, at any hour of the day or night, I have been anxious to improve...stick too ; to stand on the meeting of two eternities, thejaast^ and future, which is precisely the present moment; to toe that line. You will pardon some...
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Library of the World's Best Literature: A-Z

Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H. Warner, George Henry Warner, Edward Cornelius Towne - 1897 - 684 pages
...it. I will only hint at some of the enterprises which I have cherished. In any weather, at any hour of the day or night, I have been anxious to improve...stand on the meeting of two eternities, the past and future, which is precisely the present moment; to toe that line. You will pardon some obscurities,...
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Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Volume 37

Charles Dudley Warner - 1897 - 608 pages
...it. I will only hint at some of the enterprises which I have cherished. In any weather, at any hour of the day or night, I have been anxious to improve...stand on the meeting of two eternities, the past and future, which is precisely the present moment; to toe that line. You will pardon some obscurities,...
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Walden, Volume 1

Henry David Thoreau - 1854 - 392 pages
...it. I will only hint at some of the enterprises which I have cherished. In any weather, at any hour of the day or night, I have been anxious to improve...stick too ; to stand on the meeting of two eternities, thejast and future, which is precisely the present moment ; to toe that line. You will pardon some...
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The Bachelor of Arts: A Monthly Magazine Devoted to University ..., Volume 4

John Seymour Wood - 1898 - 844 pages
...remedy. His aim in life, Thoreau himself declares, was ever " to improve the nick of time and stand at the meeting of two eternities, the past and the future, which is precisely the present moment." Few and easily satisfied are the wants of a man with this object in view, and they left our " poet-naturalist"...
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Walden

Henry David Thoreau - 1904 - 268 pages
...it. I will only hint at some of the enterprises which I have cherished. In any weather, at any hour of the day or night, I have been anxious to improve...stand on the meeting of two eternities, the past and future, which is precisely the present moment ; to toe that line. You will pardon some obscurities,...
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The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume 2

Henry David Thoreau - 1906 - 418 pages
...it. I will only hint at some of the enterprises which I have cherished. In any weather, at any hour of the day or night, I have been anxious to improve...stand on the meeting of two eternities, the past and future, which is precisely the present moment; to toe that line. You will pardon some obscurities,...
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Walden

Henry David Thoreau - 1910 - 482 pages
...it. I will only hint at some of the enterprises which I have cherished. In any weather, at any hour of the day or night, I have been anxious to improve the nick X 1',. \ of time, and notch it on my stick too; to stand on the meeting of two eternities, the past...
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American Jeremiad

Sacvan Bercovitch - 1980 - 255 pages
...Arthur's New England contemporary, Henry David Thoreau — "anxious to improve the nick of time, ... to stand on the meeting of two eternities, the past...the future, which is precisely the present moment" — or of Jonathan Edwards a hundred years earlier, or of Thomas Shepard, the major colonial Puritan...
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