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I do not value any view of the...

I do not value any view of the universe into which man and the institutions of man enter very largely and absorb much of the attention. Man is but the place where I stand, and the prospect hence is infinite.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

Asked whether or not he believ...

Asked whether or not he believed in an afterlife, Thoreau quipped, 'One world at a time.'

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

Do not seek so anxiously to be...

Do not seek so anxiously to be developed, to subject yourself to many influences to be played on; it is all dissipation. Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

The tavern will compare favora...

The tavern will compare favorably with the church.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

The incessant anxiety and stra...

The incessant anxiety and strain of some is a well-nigh incurable form of disease. We are made to exaggerate the importance of what we do; and yet how much is not done by us!

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

Many are concerned about the m...

Many are concerned about the monuments of the West and the East -- to know who built them. For my part, I should like to know who in those days did not build them -- who were above such trifling.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

Friendship is never establishe...

Friendship is never established as an understood relation. It is a miracle which requires constant proofs. It is an exercise of the purest imagination and of the rarest faith!....

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

Our life is frittered away by ...

Our life is frittered away by detail. An honest man has hardly need to count more than his ten fingers, or in extreme cases he may add his ten toes, and lump the rest. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!....

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

As for style of writing, if on...

As for style of writing, if one has anything to say, it drops from him simply and directly, as a stone falls to the ground.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

Dwell as near as possible to t...

Dwell as near as possible to the channel in which your life flows.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

He is not a true man of scienc...

He is not a true man of science who does not bring some sympathy to his studies, and expect to learn something by behavior as well as by application. It is childish to rest in the discovery of mere coincidences, or of partial and extraneous laws. The study of geometry is a petty and idle exercise of the mind, if it is applied to no larger system than the starry one. Mathematics should be mixed not only with physics but with ethics; that is mixed mathematics. The fact which interests us most is the life of the naturalis

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

Men rush to California and Aus...

Men rush to California and Australia as if the true gold were to be found in that direction but that is to go to the very opposite extreme to where it lies. They go prospecting farther and farther away from the true lead, and are most unfortunate when they think themselves most successful.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

Give me a country where it is ...

Give me a country where it is the most natural thing in the world for a government that does not understand you to let you alone.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

The poet will write for his pe...

The poet will write for his peers alone. He will remember only that he saw truth and beauty from his position, and expect the time when a vision as broad shall overlook the same field as freely.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

The imagination never forgets;...

The imagination never forgets; it is a re-membering. It is not foundationless, but most reasonable, and it alone uses all the knowledge of the intellect.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

But what is quackery? It is co...

But what is quackery? It is commonly an attempt to cure the diseases of a man by addressing his body alone. There is need of a physician who shall minister to both soul and body at once, that is, to man. Now he falls between two stools.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

What youth or maiden conspires...

What youth or maiden conspires with the wild luxuriant beauty of Nature? She flourishes most alone, far from the towns where they reside.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

Even in our democratic New Eng...

Even in our democratic New England towns the accidental possession of wealth, and its manifestation in dress and equipage alone, obtain for the possessor almost universal respect.

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What is commonly called friend...

What is commonly called friendship is only a little more honor among rogues.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

The meeting of two eternities,...

The meeting of two eternities, the past and future....is precisely the present moment.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....