Early in 1888 one or two of us got together to establish our own Sheffield Socialist Society.
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For so, surely you will cast a light of gladness upon his onward journey, and contribute your part towards the building of that kingdom of love which links our earth to heaven.Edward Carpenter
Whatever the practical value of the Walden experiment may be, there is no question that the book is one of the most vital and pithy ever written.
Edward Carpenter
The other thing that happened in 1883 was my reading of Thoreau's Walden.
Edward Carpenter
IT is curious that, with my somewhat antinomian tendencies, I should have gone to Trinity Hall - which was, and is, before all a Law College - and should thus have been thrown into close touch with the legal element in life.
Edward Carpenter
Making a choice is like backing a horse-in a hundred years, they may decide you picked wrongly.
Edward Carpenter
When he was twenty-three or twenty-four my father began to learn German and read philosophy in his spare hours, which did not look as though he were destined to remain long on board ship!
Edward Carpenter
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