Henry David Thoreau Quote

The sun rarely shines in history, what with the dust and confusion; and when we meet with any cheering fact which implies the presence of this luminary, we excerpt and modernize it.


A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (ed. 1873)


The sun rarely shines in history, what with the dust and confusion; and when we meet with any cheering fact which implies the presence of this...

The sun rarely shines in history, what with the dust and confusion; and when we meet with any cheering fact which implies the presence of this...

The sun rarely shines in history, what with the dust and confusion; and when we meet with any cheering fact which implies the presence of this...

The sun rarely shines in history, what with the dust and confusion; and when we meet with any cheering fact which implies the presence of this...