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He was a lucky fox that left his tail in the trap. The muskrat will gnaw his third leg off to be free. No wonder man has lost his elasticity.
By Henry David Thoreau
He was a superior man. He did not value his bodily life in comparison with ideal things. He did not recognize unjust human laws, but resisted ...
By Henry David Thoreau
Government and legislation! these I thought were respectable professions. We have heard of heaven-born Numas, Lycurguses, and Solons, in the h...
By Henry David Thoreau
Having come to it so recently and freshly, it has the greater charm, so that I cannot find any to talk with about it.
By Henry David Thoreau
He did not go to the college called Harvard, good old Alma Mater as she is. He was not fed on the pap that is there furnished.... But he went ...
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He has the earnestness of a prophet. In an age of pedantry and dilettantism, he has no grain of these in his composition. There is nowhere els...
By Henry David Thoreau
He is unable to take a fact out of its merely political relations, and behold it as it lies absolutely to be disposed of by the intellect,—w...
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Franklin,—Washington,—they were left off without dying; they were merely missing one day.
By Henry David Thoreau
Generally speaking, the political news, whether domestic or foreign, might be written today for the next ten years with sufficient accuracy. M...
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God gave the righteous man a certificate entitling him to food and raiment, but the unrighteous man found a facsimile of the same in God's cof...
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For the most part we allow only outlying and transient circumstances to make our occasions. They are, in fact, the cause of our distraction.
By Henry David Thoreau
For the most part, the best man's spirit makes a fearful sprite to haunt his grave.
By Henry David Thoreau
Every sacred book, successively, has been accepted in the faith that it was to be the final resting-place of the sojourning soul; but after al...
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For a man to act himself, he must be perfectly free; otherwise he is in danger of losing all sense of responsibility or of self- respect.
By Henry David Thoreau
For eighteen hundred years, though perchance I have no right to say it, the New Testament has been written; yet where is the legislator who ha...
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Especially the transcendental philosophy needs the leaven of humor to render it light and digestible.
By Henry David Thoreau
Even Nature is observed to have her playful moods or aspects, of which man sometimes seems to be the sport.
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Even the poor student studies and is taught only political economy, while that economy of living which is synonymous with philosophy is not ev...
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Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than de...
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Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality.
By Henry David Thoreau
East of my bean-field, across the road, lived Cato Ingraham, slave of Duncan Ingraham, Esquire, gentleman, of Concord village, who built his s...
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Economy is a subject which admits of being treated with levity, but it cannot so be disposed of.
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But why go to California for a text? She is the child of New England, bred at her own school and church.
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Children, who play life, discern its true law and relations more clearly than men, who fail to live it worthily, but who think that they are w...
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Christ was a sublime actor on the stage of the world. He knew what he was thinking of when he said, 'Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my ...
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Close to the academy in this town they have erected a sort of gallows for the pupils to practice on. I thought that they might as well hang at...
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Concord River is remarkable for the gentleness of its current, which is scarcely perceptible, and some have referred to its influence the prov...
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