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Henry David Thoreau

The New Testament is an inval...

The New Testament is an invaluable book, though I confess to having been slightly prejudiced against it in my very early days by the church and the Sabbath school, so that it seemed, before I read it, to be the yellowest book in the catalogue. Yet I early escaped from their meshes. It was hard to get the commentaries out of one's head and taste its true flavor. [...] It would be a poor story to be prejudiced against the Life of Christ because the book has been edited by Christians.

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Henry David Thoreau

I have heard of a minister, w...

I have heard of a minister, who had been a fisherman, being settled in Bridgewater for as long a time as he could tell a cod froma haddock. Generous as it seems, this condition would empty most country pulpits forthwith, for it is long since the fishers of men were fishermen.

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Henry David Thoreau

Where on the globe can there ...

Where on the globe can there be found an area of equal extent with that occupied by the bulk of our States, so fertile and so richand varied in its productions, and at the same time so habitable by the European, as this is?

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Henry David Thoreau

When I consider how, after su...

When I consider how, after sunset, the stars come out gradually in troops from behind the hills and woods, I confess that I could not have contrived a more curious and inspiring sight.

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Henry David Thoreau

But what is quackery? It is c...

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.

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Henry David Thoreau

Sincerity is a great but rare...

Sincerity is a great but rare virtue, and we pardon to it much complaining, and the betrayal of many weaknesses.

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Henry David Thoreau

The really efficient laborer ...

The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

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Henry David Thoreau

Even in our democratic New En...

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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Henry David Thoreau

If we will be quiet and ready...

If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment. [Like they say, 'Every cloud has a silver lining'...so if you are patient, expect, anticipate, look and work for some good to come from the cloud, you will be rewarded eventually!]

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Henry David Thoreau

We have built for this world ...

We have built for this world a family mansion, and the next a family tomb. The best works of art are the expression of man's struggle to free himself from this condition, but the effect of our art is merely to make this low state comfortable and that higher state to be forgotten.

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Henry David Thoreau

Enemies publish themselves. T...

Enemies publish themselves. They declare war. The friend never declares his love.

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Henry David Thoreau

Here is this vast, savage, ho...

Here is this vast, savage, howling mother of ours, Nature, lying all around, with such beauty, and such affection for her children, as the leopard; and yet we are so early weaned from her breast to society, to that culture which is exclusively an interaction of man on man.

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Henry David Thoreau

We begin to praise when we be...

We begin to praise when we begin to see a thing needs our assistance.

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Henry David Thoreau

Staying in the house breeds a...

Staying in the house breeds a sort of insanity always. Every house is, in this sense, a hospital.

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Henry David Thoreau

Have no mean hours, but be gr...

Have no mean hours, but be grateful for every hour, and accept what it brings. The reality will make any sincere record respectable.

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Henry David Thoreau

The lakes are something which...

The lakes are something which you are unprepared for; they lie up so high, exposed to the light, and the forest is diminished to a fine fringe on their edges, with here and there a blue mountain, like amethyst jewels set around some jewel of the first water, - so anterior, so superior, to all the changes that are to take place on their shores, even now civil and refined, and fair as they can ever be.

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Henry David Thoreau

I cannot fish without falling...

I cannot fish without falling a little in self-respect...always when I have done I feel it would have been better if I had not fished.

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Henry David Thoreau

What wealth is it to have suc...

What wealth is it to have such friends that we cannot think of them without elevation!

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Henry David Thoreau

How often we find ourselves t...

How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends, that we might go and meet their ideal cousins.

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Henry David Thoreau

Yet poetry, though the last a...

Yet poetry, though the last and finest result, is a natural fruit. As naturally as the oak bears an acorn, and the vine a gourd, man bears a poem, either spoken or done. It is the chief and most memorable success, for history is but a prose narrative of poetic deeds.

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