# The Service

Author: Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862

Genre: Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60951

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Service+Thoreau&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

The brave man is the elder son of creation, who has stept buoyantly into his inheritance, while the coward, who is the younger, waiteth patiently till he decease. He rides as wide of this earth’s gravity as a star, and by yielding incessantly to all the impulses of the soul, is constantly drawn upward and becomes a fixed star. His bravery deals not so much in resolute action, as healthy and assured rest; its palmy state is a staying at home and compelling alliance in all directions. So stands his life to heaven, as some fair sunlit tree against the western horizon, and by sunrise is planted on some eastern hill, to glisten in the first rays of the dawn. The brave man braves nothing, nor k...

## Chapters

- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-service-60951/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-service-60951/chapters/2/index.md)