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Though the country seemed so new, and no house was observed by us, shut in between the banks that sunny day, we did not have to travel far to ...
By Henry David Thoreau
To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contem...
By Henry David Thoreau
To be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake. How could I have looked him in the face?
By Henry David Thoreau
To speak or do anything that shall concern mankind, one must speak and act as if well, or from that grain of health which he has left.
By Henry David Thoreau
They should not play life, or study it merely, while the community supports them at this expensive game, but earnestly live it from beginning ...
By Henry David Thoreau
This observatory was a building of considerable size, erected by the students of Williamstown College, whose buildings might be seen by daylig...
By Henry David Thoreau
This spending of the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of it remin...
By Henry David Thoreau
This, our respectable daily life, on which the man of common sense, the Englishman of the world, stands so squarely, and on which our institut...
By Henry David Thoreau
Those services which the community will most readily pay for, it is most disagreeable to render.
By Henry David Thoreau
Those summer days which some of my contemporaries devoted to the fine arts in Boston or Rome, and others to contemplation in India, and others...
By Henry David Thoreau
Those things for which the most money is demanded are never the things which the student most wants. Tuition, for instance, is an important it...
By Henry David Thoreau
Those things which now most engage the attention of men, as politics and the daily routine, are, it is true, vital functions of human society,...
By Henry David Thoreau
Thus our life is not altogether a forgetting, but also, alas! to a great extent, a remembering, of that which we should never have been consci...
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Thus was my first year's life in the woods completed; and the second year was similar to it. I finally left Walden September 6th, 1847.
By Henry David Thoreau
These men had no need to travel to be as wise as Solomon in all his glory, so similar are the lives of men in all countries, and fraught with ...
By Henry David Thoreau
These men, in teaching us how to die, have at the same time taught us how to live. If this man's acts and words do not create a revival, it wi...
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They have been foolish enough to put at the end of all this earnest the old joke of a diploma. Let every sheep keep but his own skin, I say.
By Henry David Thoreau
They plainly did not know how to treat me, but behaved like persons who are underbred. In every threat and in every compliment there was a blu...
By Henry David Thoreau
Think of the importance of Friendship in the education of men.... It will make a man honest; it will make him a hero; it will make him a saint...
By Henry David Thoreau
This event advertises me that there is such a fact as death,—the possibility of a man's dying. It seems as if no man had ever died in Americ...
By Henry David Thoreau
This life we live is a strange dream, and I don't believe at all any account men give of it.
By Henry David Thoreau
There is a sort of homely truth and naturalness in some books which is very rare to find, and yet looks cheap enough. There may be nothing lof...
By Henry David Thoreau
There is an incessant influx of novelty into the world, and yet we tolerate incredible dulness. I need only suggest what kind of sermons are s...
By Henry David Thoreau
There is no kind of herb, but somebody or other says that it is good. I am very glad to hear it. It reminds me of the first chapter of Genesis...
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There is something servile in the habit of seeking after a law which we may obey. We may study the laws of matter at and for our convenience, ...
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There is, however, this consolation to the most way-worn traveler, upon the dustiest road, that the path his feet describe is so perfectly sym...
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There they lived on, those New England people, farmer lives, father and grandfather and great-grandfather, on and on without noise, keeping up...
By Henry David Thoreau