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亨利·戴维·梭罗：瓦尔登湖·摘录 42
亨利·戴维·梭罗《瓦尔登湖》· Walden · 健康 · 成长 · 哲学 · 财富
With a little more deliberation in the choice of their pursuits, all men would perhaps become essentially students and observers, for certainly their nature and destiny are interesting to all alike. In accumulating property for ourselves or our posterity, in founding a family or a state, or acquiring fame even, we are mortal; but in dealing with truth we are immortal, and need fear no change nor accident. The oldest Egyptian or Hindoo philosopher raised a corner of the veil from the statue of the divinity; and still the trembling robe remains raised, and I gaze upon as fresh a glory as he did, since it was I in him that was then so bold, and it is he in me that now reviews the vision. No dust has settled on that robe; no time has elapsed since that divinity was revealed. That time which we really improve, or which is improvable, is neither past, present, nor future.
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定位：Excerpt 42 · 核对日期：2026-10-19 · 核验：短摘录
白话
如果人们在选择职业时多思考一下，或许都会成为本质上的学生和观察者，因为人的本性和命运对所有人都同样有趣。积累财产、建立家庭或国家、甚至获取名声，这些都会随着死亡而结束；但处理真理时，我们是不朽的，不必害怕变化或意外。最古老的埃及或印度哲学家曾揭开神像帷幕的一角，那颤抖的袍子至今仍被掀起，梭罗看到的荣耀和古人一样新鲜，因为当年勇敢的是他心中的古人，现在审视这景象的是古人身上的他。那袍子上没有灰尘，神性显现以来时间并未流逝。我们真正利用或可利用的时间，既不是过去，也不是现在或未来。
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梭罗在《瓦尔登湖》中谈论真理的永恒性，认为追求真理能让人超越死亡和变化。
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你最近花时间追求的是会消逝的东西，还是不会消逝的真理？
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