If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?

Source:Letter to Harrison Blake (Concord, December 19, 1853); The Writings of Henry David Thoreau (Houghton, Mifflin and Co., ed. 1906), Volume VI, Page 222
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