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All health and success does me good, however far off and withdrawn it may appear; all disease and failure helps to make me sad and does me evi...
By Henry David Thoreau
All men are partially buried in the grave of custom, and of some we see only the crown of the head above ground. Better are the physically dea...
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A great proportion of architectural ornaments are literally hollow, and a September gale would strip them off, like borrowed plumes, without i...
By Henry David Thoreau
A healthy man, indeed, is the complement of the seasons, and in winter, summer is in his heart.
By Henry David Thoreau
A healthy man, with steady employment, as wood-chopping at fifty cents a cord, and a camp in the woods, will not be a good subject for Christi...
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A man's whole life is taxed for the least thing well done. It is its net result.
By Henry David Thoreau
A strict regard for truth obliges us to say, that the few women whom we saw that day looked exceedingly pinched up. They had prominent chins a...
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A man might well pray that he may not taboo or curse any portion of nature by being buried in it.
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Youth gets together with their materials to build a bridge to the moon or maybe a palace on earth; then in middle age they decide to build a woodshed with them instead.
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'Having reached the term of his natural life'; Mwould it not be truer to say, Having reached the term of his unnatural life?
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The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.
By Henry David Thoreau
The earth is not a mere fragment of dead history, stratum upon stratum like the leaves of a book, to be studied by geologists and antiquaries chiefly, but living poetry like the leaves of a tree, which precede flowers and fruit -- not a fossil earth, but a living earth; compared with whose great central life all animal and vegetable life is merely parasitic. Its throes will heave our exuviate from their graves.
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All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man. Wisdom
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We need the tonic of wildness, to wade sometimes in marshes where the bittern and the meadow-hen lurk, and hear the booming of the snipe; to smell the whispering sedge where only some wilder and more solitary fowl builds her nest, and the mink crawls with its belly close to the ground.
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What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party. War
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That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as another s. We see so much only as we possess.
By Henry David Thoreau
I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the savage tribes have left off eating each other when they came in contact with the more civilized.
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One farmer says to me, You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for it furnishes nothing to make bones with; and so he religiously devotes a part of his day to supplying his system with the raw material of bones; walking all the while he talks behind his oxen, which, with vegetable-made bones, jerk him and his lumbering plow along in spite of every obstacle.
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He who is only a traveler learns things at second-hand and by the halves, and is poor authority. We are most interested when science reports what those men already know practically or instinctively, for that alone is a true humanity, or account of human experience.
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Only the traveling is good which reveals to me the value of home and enables me to enjoy it better.
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To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning.
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How can they expect a harvest of thought who have not had the seed time of character.
By Henry David Thoreau