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The most attractive sentences...

The most attractive sentences are, perhaps, not the wisest, but the surest and roundest. They are spoken firmly and conclusively,as if the speaker had a right to know what he says, and if not wise, they have at least been well learned.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

Indeed, the best books have a...

Indeed, the best books have a use, like sticks and stones, which is above or beside their design, not anticipated in the preface,not concluded in the appendix. Even Virgil's poetry serves a very different use to me today from what it did to his contemporaries. It has often an acquired and accidental value merely, proving that man is still man in the world.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

As long as I have the friends...

As long as I have the friendship of the sesasons life will never be a burden to me.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

Where there is a lull of trut...

Where there is a lull of truth, an institution springs up. But the truth blows right on over it, nevertheless, and at length blows it down.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

Shall a man go and hang himse...

Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies, and not be the biggest pygmie that he can? Let everyone mind his own business, and endeavor to be what he was made

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

All endeavour calls for the a...

All endeavour calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

Politics is but a narrow fiel...

Politics is but a narrow field.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

You boast of spending a tenth...

You boast of spending a tenth part of your income in charity; may be you should spend the nine tenths so, and done with it.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

Today...the bluebirds, old an...

Today...the bluebirds, old and young, have revisited their box, as if they would fain repeat the summer without intervention of winter, if Nature would let them.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

Nature is fair in proportion ...

Nature is fair in proportion as the youth is pure. The heavens and the earth are one flower ; the earth is the calyx, the heavens the corolla.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

An island always pleases my i...

An island always pleases my imagination, even the smallest, as a small continent and integral portion of the globe. I have a fancyfor building my hut on one. Even a bare, grassy isle, which I can see entirely over at a glance, has some undefined and mysterious charm for me.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

He who parades his virtues se...

He who parades his virtues seldom leads the parade. He who puts up with insult invites injury. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life. This life in the present.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

I am not afraid that I shall ...

I am not afraid that I shall exaggerate the value and significance of life, but that I shall not be up to the occasion which it is.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

It is dry, hazy June weather....

It is dry, hazy June weather. We are more of the earth, farther from heaven these days.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

The eye which can appreciate ...

The eye which can appreciate the naked and absolute beauty of a scientific truth is far more rare than that which is attracted by a moral one.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

There have been heroes for wh...

There have been heroes for whom this world seemed expressly prepared, as if creation had at last succeeded; whose daily life was the stuff of which our dreams are made, and whose presence enhanced the beauty and ampleness of Nature herself.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

Life is so short that it is n...

Life is so short that it is not wise to take roundabout ways, nor can we spend much time in waiting.... We have not got half-way to dawn yet.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

The only fruit which even muc...

The only fruit which even much living yields seems to be often only some trivial success,--the ability to do some slight thing better. We make conquest only of husks and shells for the most part,--at least apparently,--but sometimes these are cinnamon and spices, you know.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

There they lived on, those Ne...

There they lived on, those New England people, farmer lives, father and grandfather and great-grandfather, on and on without noise, keeping up tradition, and expecting, beside fair weather and abundant harvests, we did not learn what. They were contented to live, since it was so contrived for them, and where their lines had fallen.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

When a man's conscience and t...

When a man's conscience and the laws clash, it is his conscience that he must follow.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

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