the Thoreau Log.
24 April 1839. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  Why should we concern ourselves with what has happened to us, and the unaccountable fickleness of events, and not rather [with] how we have happened to the universe, and it has demeaned itself in consequence? Let us record in each case the judgment we have awarded to circumstances.

  Cheap persons will stand upon ceremony, because there is no other ground, but to the great of the earth we need no introduction, nor do they need any to us.

(Journal, 1:77-78)

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