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The coward wants resolution, ...

The coward wants resolution, which the brave man can do without. He recognizes no faith above a creed, thinking this straw by which he is moored does him good service, because his sheet anchor does not drag.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

The preachers and lecturers d...

The preachers and lecturers deal with men of straw, as they are men of straw themselves. Why, a free-spoken man, of sound lungs, cannot draw a long breath without causing your rotten institutions to come toppling down by the vacuum he makes. Your church is a baby-house made of blocks, and so of the state....The church, the state, the school, the magazine, think they are liberal and free! It is the freedom of a prison-yard.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

Society is commonly too cheap...

Society is commonly too cheap. We meet at very short intervals, not having had time to acquire any new value for each other. We meet at meals three times a day, and give each other a new taste of that old musty cheese that we are.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

Men are probably nearer the e...

Men are probably nearer the essential truth in their superstitions than in their science.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

Cultivate poverty like a gard...

Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Turn the old; return to them. Things do not change; we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do not want society.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

The artist and his work are n...

The artist and his work are not to be separated. The most willfully foolish man cannot stand aloof from his folly, but the deed and the doer together make ever one sober fact.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

It is only necessary that man...

It is only necessary that man should start a fence that Nature should carry it on and complete it. The farmer cannot plow quite up to the rails or wall which he himself has placed, and hence it often becomes a hedgerow and sometimes a coppice.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

The millions are awake enough...

The millions are awake enough for physical labor; but only one in a million is awake enough for effective intellectual exertion, only one in a hundred million to a poetic or divine life. To be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake. How could I have looked him in the face? We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aids, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn, which does not forsake us in our soundest sleep. I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

In the summer we lay up a sto...

In the summer we lay up a stock of experiences for the winter, as the squirrel of nuts?something for conversation in winter evenings.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

The indescribable innocence o...

The indescribable innocence of and beneficence of Nature,-of sun and wind and rain, of summer and winter,-such health, such cheer, they afford forever!

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

Men profess to be lovers of m...

Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

A stereotyped but unconscious...

A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

Let every one mind his own bu...

Let every one mind his own business, and endeavor to be what he was made.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

Law never made men a whit mor...

Law never made men a whit more just; and, by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents of injustice.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

If a person lost would conclu...

If a person lost would conclude that after all he is not lost, he is not beside himself, but standing in his own old shoes on thevery spot where he is, and that for the time being he will live there; but the places that have known him, they are lost,--how much anxiety and danger would vanish.

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I think of no news to tell yo...

I think of no news to tell you. It is a serene summer day here, all above the snow. The hens steal their nests, and I steal theireggs still, as formerly. This is what I do with the hands. Ah, labor,--it is a divine institution, and conversation with many men and hens.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

Faint heart never won true fr...

Faint heart never won true friend. O my friend, may it come to pass, once, that when you are my friend I may be yours.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

The rich man is always sold t...

The rich man is always sold to the institution which makes him rich. Absolutely speaking, the more money, the less virtue.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

The cost of a thing is someth...

The cost of a thing is something called life which is given in exchange for it.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

In my walks, I would fain ret...

In my walks, I would fain return to my senses. What business have I in the woods if I am thinking of something out of the woods?

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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