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The ears were made, not for su...

The ears were made, not for such trivial uses as men are wont to suppose, but to hear celestial sounds.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

Enthusiasm is a supernatural s...

Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

Spending of the best part of o...

Spending of the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy questionable liberty during the least valuable part of it, reminds me of the Englishman who went to India to make a fortune first, in order that he might return to England and live the life of a poet. He should have gone up garret at once.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

Even voting for the right is d...

Even voting for the right is doing nothing for it. It is only expressing to men feebly your desire that it should prevail. A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

Begin where you are and such a...

Begin where you are and such as you are, without aiming mainly to become of more worth, and with kindness aforethought, go about doing good.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

Books must be read as delibera...

Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

When a dog runs at you, whistl...

When a dog runs at you, whistle for him.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

We are armed with language ade...

We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

Wherever a man goes, men will ...

Wherever a man goes, men will pursue him and paw him with their dirty institutions, and, if they can, constrain him to belong to their desperate odd-fellow society.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

The way in which men cling to ...

The way in which men cling to old institutions after the life has departed out of them, and out of themselves, reminds me of those monkeys which cling by their tails - aye, whose tails contract about the limbs, even the dead limbs, of the forest, and they hang suspended beyond the hunter's reach long after they are dead. It is of no use to argue with such men. They have not an apprehensive intellect, but merely, as it were a prehensile tail.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

Morning is when I am awake and...

Morning is when I am awake and there is a dawn in me.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

The purity men love is like th...

The purity men love is like the mists which envelope the earth, and not like the azure ether beyond.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

A name pronounced is the recog...

A name pronounced is the recognition of the individual to whom it belongs. He who can pronounce my name aright, he can call me, and is entitled to my love and service.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

The stars are the apexes of wh...

The stars are the apexes of what wonderful triangles! What distant and different beings in the various mansions of the universe are contemplating the same one at the same moment!

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

Only nature has a right to gri...

Only nature has a right to grieve perpetually, for she only is innocent. Soon the ice will melt, and the blackbirds sing along the river which he frequented, as pleasantly as ever. The same everlasting serenity will appear in this face of God, and we will not be sorrowful, if he is not.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

We have not so good a right to...

We have not so good a right to hate any as our Friend.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

What men call social virtues, ...

What men call social virtues, good fellowship, is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter, which lie close together to keep each other warm.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

He who is only a traveler lear...

He who is only a traveler learns things at second-hand and by the halves, and is poor authority. We are most interested when science reports what those men already know practically or instinctively, for that alone is a true humanity, or account of human experience.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

A minority is powerless while ...

A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority; it is not even a minority then; but it is irresistible when it clogs by its whole weight.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

Nothing is so much to be feare...

Nothing is so much to be feared as fear.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

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