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I have a room all to myself; i...

I have a room all to myself; it is nature.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

And I am sure that I never rea...

And I am sure that I never read any memorable news in a newspaper. If we read of one man robbed, or murdered, or killed by accident, or one house burned, or one vessel wrecked, or one steamboat blown up, or one cow run over on the Western Railroad, or one mad dog killed, or one lot of grasshoppers in the winter, - we need never read of another. One is enough. If you are acquainted with the principle, what do you care for a myriad instances and applications?

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

I was not designed to be force...

I was not designed to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

Love must be as much a light a...

Love must be as much a light as it is a flame.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

The animal merely makes a bed,...

The animal merely makes a bed, which he warms with his body in a sheltered place; but man, having discovered fire, boxes up some air in a spacious apartment, and warms that, instead of robbing himself, makes that his bed, in which he can move about divested of more cumbrous clothing, maintain a kind of summer in the midst of winter, and by means of windows even admit the light and with a lamp lengthen out the day.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

With all your science can you ...

With all your science can you tell me how it is, and when it is, that light comes into the soul?

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

I did not wish to live what wa...

I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

Sweep away the clutter of thin...

Sweep away the clutter of things that complicate our lives.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

How novel and original must be...

How novel and original must be each new mans view of the universe - for though the world is so old - and so many books have been written - each object appears wholly undescribed to our experience - each field of thought wholly unexplored - the whole world is an America - a New World.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

Somehow strangely the vice of ...

Somehow strangely the vice of men gets well represented and protected but their virtue has none to plead its cause - nor any charter of immunities and rights.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

If I deny the authority of the...

If I deny the authority of the State when it presents my tax bill, it will soon take and waste all my property, and so harass me and my children without end. This is hard, this makes it impossible for a man to live honestly, and at the same time comfortably, in outward respects.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

How can we remember our ignora...

How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time?

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

The study of geometry is a pet...

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.

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Even the facts of science may ...

Even the facts of science may dust the mind by their dryness, unless they are ... rendered fertile by the dews of fresh and living truth. Knowledge does not come to us by details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

Much is said about the progres...

Much is said about the progress of science in these centuries. I should say that the useful results of science had accumulated, but that there had been no accumulation of knowledge, strictly speaking, for posteriry; for knowledge is to be aquired only by corresponding experience. How can be know what we are told merely? Each man can interpret another's experience only by his own.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

Fishing has been styled 'a con...

Fishing has been styled 'a contemplative man's recreation,' ... and science is only a more contemplative man's recreation.

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The fact which interests us mo...

The fact which interests us most is the life of the naturalist. The purest science is still biographical. Nothing will dignify and elevate science while it is sundered so wholly from the moral life of its devotee.

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What are the libraries of scie...

What are the libraries of science but files of newspapers?

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

Birds never sing in caves....

Birds never sing in caves.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

Men are probably nearer the es...

Men are probably nearer the essential truth in their superstitions than in their science.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

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