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Henry David Thoreau

A wise man will not leave the...

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. When the majority shall at length vote for the abolition of slavery, it will be because they are indifferent to slavery, or because there is but little slavery left to be abolished by their vote. They will then be the only slaves. Only his vote can hasten the abolition of slavery who asserts his own freedom by his vote.

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Henry David Thoreau

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.

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Henry David Thoreau

Don't be too moral. You may c...

Don't be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.

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Henry David Thoreau

No doubt another may also thi...

No doubt another may also think for me; but it is not therefore desirable that he should do so to the exclusion of my thinking for myself.

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Henry David Thoreau

As for the complex ways of li...

As for the complex ways of living, I love them not, however much I practice them. In as many places as possible, I will get my feet down to the earth.

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Henry David Thoreau

It is not enough to be a hard...

It is not enough to be a hardworking person. Equally important is the job you are working at.

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Henry David Thoreau

How can he remember well his ...

How can he remember well his ignorance - which his growth requires - who has so often to use his knowledge?

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Henry David Thoreau

To him whom contemplates a tr...

To him whom contemplates a trait of natural beauty, no harm nor despair can come. The doctrines of despair, spiritual or political servitude, were never taught by those who shared the serenity of Nature. For each phase of Nature, though not invisible, is yet not too distinct or obtrusive. It is there to be found when we look for it, but not too demanding of our attention.

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Henry David Thoreau

I love nature, I love the lan...

I love nature, I love the landscape, because it is so sincere. It never cheats me. It never jests. It is cheerfully, musically earnest. I lie and relie on the earth.

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Henry David Thoreau

The life in us is like the wa...

The life in us is like the water in the river. It may rise this year higher than man has ever known it, and flood the parched uplands; even this may be the eventful year, which will drown out all our muskrats. It was not always dry land where we dwell. I see far inland the banks where the stream anciently washed, before science began to record its freshets.

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Henry David Thoreau

October is the month for pain...

October is the month for painted leaves. Their rich glow now flashes round the world. As fruits and leaves and the day itself acquire a bright tint just before they fall, so the year near its setting. October is its sunset sky; November the later twilight.

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Henry David Thoreau

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.

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Henry David Thoreau

The purity men love is like t...

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

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Henry David Thoreau

Before the end of December, g...

Before the end of December, generally, they experience their first thawing. Those which a month ago were sour, crabbed, and quite unpalatable to the civilized taste, such at least as were frozen while sound, let a warmer sun come to thaw them, for they are extremely sensitive to its rays, are found to be filled with a rich, sweet cider, better than any bottled cider that I know of, and with which I am better acquainted than with wine. All apples are good in this state, and your jaws are the cider-press.

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Henry David Thoreau

Whatever sentence will bear t...

Whatever sentence will bear to be read twice, we may be sure was thought twice.

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Henry David Thoreau

I have learned that the swift...

I have learned that the swiftest traveller is he that goes afoot.

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Henry David Thoreau

The man of genius knows what ...

The man of genius knows what he is aiming at; nobody else knows. And he alone knows when something comes between him and his object. In the course of generations, however, men will excuse you for not doing as they do, if you will bring enough to pass in your own way.

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Henry David Thoreau

Nature is doing her best each...

Nature is doing her best each moment to make us well. Why, nature is but another name for health.

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Henry David Thoreau

To what end do I lead a simpl...

To what end do I lead a simple life at all, pray? That I may teach others to simplify their lives? - and so all our lives be simplified merely, like an algebraic formula? Or not, rather, that I may make use of the ground I have cleared to live more worthily and profitably?

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Henry David Thoreau

As the least drop of wine tin...

As the least drop of wine tinges the whole goblet, so the least particle of truth colors our whole life.

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