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There never was and is not likely soon to be a nation of philosophers, nor am I certain it is desirable that there should be.
By Henry David Thoreau
There is one consolation in being sick; and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before.
By Henry David Thoreau
There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.
By Henry David Thoreau
There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living. - from Live Without Principle
By Henry David Thoreau
There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.
By Henry David Thoreau
There is always a present and extant life, be it better or worse, which all combine to uphold.
By Henry David Thoreau
There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.
By Henry David Thoreau
There are thousands hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
By Henry David Thoreau
There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.
By Henry David Thoreau
There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself; but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.
By Henry David Thoreau
There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at its root.
By Henry David Thoreau
There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.
By Henry David Thoreau
The ways by which you may get money almost without exception lead downward. - from Live Without Principle
By Henry David Thoreau
The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible And indescribably as the tints of morning or evening. It is a little star-dust caught, A segment of the rainbow which I have clutched.
By Henry David Thoreau
The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the alms-house as brightly as from the rich man's abode; the snow melts before its door as early in the spring. --
By Henry David Thoreau
The perch swallows the grub-worm, the pickerel swallows the perch, and the fisherman swallows the pickerel; and so all the chinks in the scale of being are filled.
By Henry David Thoreau
The only obligation which I have a right to assume, is to do at any time what I think right.
By Henry David Thoreau
The man for whom law exists - the man of forms, the Conservative, is a tame man.
By Henry David Thoreau