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Concord is just as idiotic as...

Concord is just as idiotic as ever in relation to the spirits and their knockings. Most people here believe in a spiritual world ... in spirits which the very bullfrogs in our meadows would blackball. Their evil genius is seeing how low it can degrade them. The hooting of owls, the croaking of frogs, is celestial wisdom in comparison.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

Even the elephant carries but...

Even the elephant carries but a small trunk on his journeys. The perfection of traveling is to travel without baggage.

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Every path but your own is th...

Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.

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Public opinion is a weak tyra...

Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.

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The first pleasant days of sp...

The first pleasant days of spring come out like a squirrel and go in again.

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Far travel, very far travel, ...

Far travel, very far travel, or travail, comes near to the worth of staying at home.

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We are always paid for our su...

We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect. [So why not suspect good rather than bad in events, people and life and thereby find it more?]

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I noticed, as I had done befo...

I noticed, as I had done before, that there was a lull among the mosquitoes about midnight, and that they began again in the morning. Nature is thus merciful. But apparently they need rest as well as we.

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The birds I heard today, whic...

The birds I heard today, which, fortunately, did not come within the scope of my science, sang as freshly as if it had been the first morning of creation.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

If you are describing any occ...

If you are describing any occurrence... make two or more distinct reports at different times... We discriminate at first only a few features, and we need to reconsider our experience from many points of view and in various moods in order to perceive the whole.

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Many old people receive pensi...

Many old people receive pensions for no other reason, it seems to me, but as a compensation for having lived a long time ago.

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It is always singular, but en...

It is always singular, but encouraging, to meet with common sense in very old books, as the Heetopades of Veeshnoo Sarma; a playful wisdom which has eyes behind as well as before, and oversees itself. It asserts their health and independence of the experience of later times. This pledge of sanity cannot be spared in a book, that it sometimes pleasantly reflect upon itself.

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Poetry is nothing but healthy...

Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.

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It is said that a rogue does ...

It is said that a rogue does not look you in the face, neither does an honest man look at you as if he had his reputation to establish.

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It is possible to invent a ho...

It is possible to invent a house still more convenient and luxurious than we have...but shall we always study to obtain more of these things, and not sometimes to be content with less?

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To be right is more honorable...

To be right is more honorable than to be law abiding.

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What is peculiar in the life ...

What is peculiar in the life of a man consists not in his obedience, but his opposition, to his instincts. In one direction or another he strives to live a supernatural life.

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Being a teacher is like being...

Being a teacher is like being in jail; once it's on your record, you can never get rid of it.

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The highest condition of art ...

The highest condition of art is artlessness.

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The flowers of the apple are ...

The flowers of the apple are perhaps the most beautiful of any tree's, so copious and so delicious to both sight and scent.

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