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|Enjoy Loneliness

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I find it wholesome1(完善的,有益健康的) to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome(疲倦的,厌倦的) and dissipating(消散) . I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude2(孤独,隐居) . We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers3. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will. Solitude is not measured by the miles of space that intervene between a man and his fellows. The really diligent4(勤勉的,用功的) student in one of the crowded hives of Cambridge College is as solitary5 as a dervish(托钵僧) in the desert. The farmer can work alone in the field or the woods all day, hoeing(锄地,挖掘) or chopping, and not feel lonesome, because he is employed; but when he comes home at night he cannot sit down in a room alone, at the mercy of his thoughts, but must be where he can see the folks and recreate, and, as he thinks, remunerate(酬劳,赔偿) himself for his day's solitude; and hence he wonders how the student can sit alone in the house all night and most of the day without ennui6 and the blues7; but he does not realize that the student, though in the house, is still at work in his field, and chopping in his woods, as the farmer in his, and in turn seeks the same recreation and society that the latter does, though it may be a more condensed form of it.

Society is commonly too cheap. We meet at very short intervals8, not having had time to acquire any new value for each other. We meet at meals three times a day, and give each other a new taste of that old musty cheese that we are. We have had to agree on a certain set of rules, called etiquette9(礼仪,礼节) and politeness, to make this frequent meeting tolerable and that we need not come to open war. We meet at the post-office, and at the sociable10, and about the fireside(非正式的) every night; we live thick and are in each other's way, and stumble over one another, and I think that we thus lose some respect for one another. Certainly less frequency would suffice for all important and hearty11 communications. Consider the girls in a factory---never alone, hardly in their dreams. It would be better if there were but one inhabitant to a square mile, as where I live. The value of a man is not in his skin, that we should touch him.

I have a great deal of company in my house; especially in the morning, when nobody calls. Let me suggest a few comparisons, that some one may convey an idea of my situation. I am no more lonely than the loon12(懒人,笨蛋) in the pond that laughs so loud, or than Walden Pond itself. What company has that lonely lake, I pray?

And yet it has not the blue devils, but the blue angels in it, in the azure13(蔚蓝的) tint14 of its waters. The sun is alone, except in thick weather, when there sometimes appear to be two, but one is a mock sun. god is alone---but the devil, he is far from being alone; he sees a great deal of company; he is legion. I am no more lonely than a single mullein or dandelion in a pasture, or a bean leaf, or sorrel(栗色) , or a horse-fly, or a bumblebee. I am no more lonely than the Millbrook, or a weathercock, or the north star, or the south wind, or an April shower, or a January thaw15, or the first spider in a new house.


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