Selections from The Heart of Thoreau’s Journals page 34
“We do all stand in the front ranks of the battle every moment of our lives; where there is a brave man there is the thickest of the fight, there the post of honor.”
What is said here is that we all experience life at the same rate, and no one is sheltered from it, but the person that steppes up and takes it head on gains the most glory. This quote informs one that to be honorable is to be courageous. The metaphor for life being a battle, is saying that life is not fare or easy and the thing that one most wants out of life one will have to work for. Thus by working to succeed, one is brave in battle and causing the “thickest of the fight”. Accordingly with hard work one will thrive, and the honorable is the thriving one, therefore he is the courageous one, for he has the “post of honor”.
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