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But I would say to my fellows, once for all, As long as possible live free and uncommitted. It makes but little difference whether you are com...
By Henry David Thoreau
But it is fit that the Past should be dark; though the darkness is not so much a quality of the past as of tradition. It is not a distance of ...
By Henry David Thoreau
But men labor under a mistake. The better part of the man is soon ploughed into the soil for compost. By a seeming fate, commonly called neces...
By Henry David Thoreau
But the eyes, though they are no sailors, will never be satisfied with any model, however fashionable, which does not answer all the requisiti...
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But what is quackery? It is commonly an attempt to cure the diseases of a man by addressing his body alone. There is need of a physician who s...
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Can there be any greater reproach than an idle learning? Learn to split wood, at least.
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Carlyle's humor is vigorous and titanic, and has more sense in it than the sober philosophy of many another. It is not to be disposed of by la...
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Bread may not always nourish us; but it always does us good, it even takes stiffness out of our joints, and makes us supple and buoyant, when ...
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As for adopting the ways which the State has provided for remedying the evil, I know not of such ways. They take too much time, and a man's li...
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As for farming, I am convinced that my genius dates from an older era than the agricultural. I would at least strike my spade into the earth w...
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As for me, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob are now only the subtlest imaginable essences, which would not stain the morning sky.
By Henry David Thoreau
As for the graces of expression, a great thought is never found in a mean dress; but ... the nine Muses and the three Graces will have conspir...
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As for the sacred Scriptures, or Bibles of mankind, who in this town can tell me even their titles? Most men do not know that any nation but t...
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As for Waldo, he died as the mist rises from the brook, which the sun will soon dart his rays through. Do not the flowers die every autumn? He...
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As with our colleges, so with a hundred 'modern improvements'; there is an illusion about them; there is not always a positive advance. The de...
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At present the globe goes with a shattered constitution in its orbit.... No doubt the simple powers of nature, properly directed by man, would...
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At the ramparts on the cliff near the old Parliament House I counted twenty-four thirty-two-pounders in a row, pointed over the harbor, with t...
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Art is not tame, and Nature is not wild, in the ordinary sense. A perfect work of man's art would also be wild or natural in a good sense.
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America is said to be the arena on which the battle of freedom is to be fought; but surely it cannot be freedom in a merely political sense th...
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An efficient and valuable man does what he can, whether the community pay him for it or not. The inefficient offer their inefficiency to the h...
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And now that we have returned to the desultory life of the plain, let us endeavor to import a little of that mountain grandeur into it. We wil...
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Art can never match the luxury and superfluity of Nature. In the former all is seen; it cannot afford concealed wealth, and is niggardly in co...
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Ah! I have penetrated to those meadows on the morning of many a first spring day, jumping from hummock to hummock, from willow root to willow ...
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And by another year, Such as God knows, with freer air, More fruits and fairer flowers Will bear, While I droop here.
By Henry David Thoreau
A thoroughbred business man cannot enter heartily upon the business of life without first looking into his accounts.
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A written word is the choicest of relics. It is something at once more intimate with us and more universal than any other work of art. It is t...
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Absolutely speaking, the more money, the less virtue; for money comes between a man and his objects, and obtains them for him; and it was cert...
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