In fact, the deeper you penetrate into the woods, the more intelligent, and, in one sense, less countrified do you find the inhabi...tants; for always the pioneer has been a traveler, and, to some extent, a man of the world; and, as the distances with which he is familiar are greater, so is his information more general and far reaching than the villager's. If I were to look for a narrow, uninformed, and countrified mind, as opposed to the intelligence and refinement which are thought to emanate from cities, it would be among the rusty inhabitants of an old-settled country, on farms all run out and gone to seed with life-everlasting, in the towns about Boston, even on the high-road in Concord, and not in the back woods of Maine.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
O sweet everlasting Voices, be still; Go to the guards of the heavenly fold... And bid them wander obeying your will, Flame under flame, till Time be no more....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name.... For the Lord is good; his mercy is everlasting; and his truth endureth to all generations.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the road is easy that leads to destruction, and there are many who take it....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »