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The man for whom law exists -- the man of forms, the Conservative, is a tame man.
By Henry David Thoreau
The man who goes alone can start today but he who travels with another must wait till the other is ready, and it may be along time before they get off.
By Henry David Thoreau
The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.
By Henry David Thoreau
The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. It is an intelligence about language.
By Henry David Thoreau
The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.
By Henry David Thoreau
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.
By Henry David Thoreau
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when someone asked me what I thought , and attended to my answer.
By Henry David Thoreau
The frontiers are not east or west, north or south, but wherever a man confronts a fact
By Henry David Thoreau
The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly.
By Henry David Thoreau
The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.
By Henry David Thoreau
The cost of a thing is the amount of what I call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
By Henry David Thoreau
The cost of a things is the amount of what I call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
By Henry David Thoreau
The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way.
By Henry David Thoreau
The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way.
By Henry David Thoreau
The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.
By Henry David Thoreau
Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.
By Henry David Thoreau
Talk of mysteries! Think of our life in Nature- daily to be shown matter, To come in contact with it- rocks, trees, wind on our cheeks. The solid earth! . . .
By Henry David Thoreau
Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.
By Henry David Thoreau
She sits composedly sentinel, with paws tucked under her, a good part of her days at present by some ridiculous little hole, the possible entry of a mouse.
By Henry David Thoreau