OT mysterious quote (was: Horcrus disposal (was Re: The List update))

[carolynwhite2]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at q...> 
wrote:
>
> 
> > 
> > Carolyn:
> > Well, talking of serendipitous (sp?) quotes, this evening I 
learnt 
> > that Roosevelt said in his inaugural address in 1933:
> > 
> > 'let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear 
is 
> > fear itself'
> > 
> > Well well well, where have we heard that recently? Or is it 
biblical 
> > in origin? I wouldn't know.
> > 
> > 
> > http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5057/
> 
> 
> Pippin:
> It's from Thoreau. "Nothing is so much to be feared as fear." 
Journal,
> Sept 7, 1851.
> 
> Pippin
> "Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a 
> trout in the milk." -- ibid, November 11, 1854
>

Carolyn:
Ah, thank you..a fount of wisdom indeed. Back to goats:

'You only need sit still long enough in some attractive spot in the 
woods that all its inhabitants may exhibit themselves to you by 
turns.'

(apparently from the chapter "Brute Neighbors" in Walden)