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Show me two villages, one emb...

Show me two villages, one embowered in trees and blazing with all the glories of October, the other a merely trivial and treelesswaste, or with only a single tree or two for suicides, and I shall be sure that in the latter will be found the most starved and bigoted religionists and the most desperate drinkers.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

When we are unhurried and wis...

When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

Homer and Shakespeare and Mil...

Homer and Shakespeare and Milton and Marvell and Wordsworth are but the rustling of leaves and crackling of twigs in the forest, and there is not yet the sound of any bird. The Muse has never lifted up her voice to sing.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

We are not a religious people...

We are not a religious people, but we are a nation of politicians. We do not care for the Bible, but we do care for the newspaper.At any meeting of politicianshow impertinent it would be to quote from the Bible! how pertinent to quote from a newspaper or from the Constitution!

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

If one hesitates in his path,...

If one hesitates in his path, let him not proceed. Let him respect his doubts, for doubts, too, may have some divinity in them.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

The eye may see for the hand,...

The eye may see for the hand, but not for the mind.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

A temple, you know, was ancie...

A temple, you know, was anciently "an open place without a roof," whose walls served merely to shut out the world and direct the mind toward heaven; but a modern meeting-house shuts out the heavens, while it crowds the world into still closer quarters.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

Good poetry seems so simple a...

Good poetry seems so simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder that all men are not always poets. Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

When we want culture more tha...

When we want culture more than potatoes, and illumination more than sugar-plums, then the great resources of a world are taxed anddrawn out, and the result, or staple production, is, not slaves, nor operatives, but men,--those rare fruits called heroes, saints, poets, philosophers, and redeemers.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

We are all sculptors and pain...

We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bone.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

Not that the story need be lo...

Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

Say what you have to say, not...

Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

The little things in life are...

The little things in life are as interesting as the big ones.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

Every man must walk to the be...

Every man must walk to the beat of his own drummer.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

Renew thyself completely each...

Renew thyself completely each day.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

We are double-edged blades, a...

We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke strops our vice.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

What the essential difference...

What the essential difference between man and woman is, that they should be thus attracted to one another, no one has satisfactorily answered. Perhaps we must acknowledge the justness of the distinction which assigns to man the sphere of wisdom, and to woman that of love, though neither belongs exclusively to either. Man is continually saying to woman, Why will you not be more wise? Woman is continually saying to man, Why will you not be more loving? It is not in their wills to be wise or to be loving; but, unless each is both wise and loving, there can be neither wisdom nor love.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

It is not enough that we are ...

It is not enough that we are truthful; we must cherish and carry out high purposes to be truthful about.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

Christianity only hopes. It h...

Christianity only hopes. It has hung its harp on the willows, and cannot sing a song in a strange land. It has dreamed a sad dream, and does not yet welcome the morning with joy. The mother tells her falsehoods to her child, but, thank heaven, the child does not grow up in its parent's shadow. Our mother's faith has not grown with her experience. Her experience has been too much for her. The lesson of life was too hard for her to learn.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

The setting sun is reflected ...

The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the alms-house as brightly as from the rich man's abode.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

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