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The life which men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?
By Henry David Thoreau
The man who takes the liberty to live is superior to all the laws, by virtue of his relation to the lawmaker.
By Henry David Thoreau
The mariner who makes the safest port in heaven, perchance, seems to his friends on earth to be shipwrecked, for they deem Boston Harbor the b...
By Henry David Thoreau
The material was pure, and his art was pure; how could the result be other than wonderful?
By Henry David Thoreau
The most interesting dwellings in this country, as the painter knows, are the most unpretending, humble log huts and cottages of the poor comm...
By Henry David Thoreau
The New Testament is an invaluable book, though I confess to having been slightly prejudiced against it in my very early days by the church an...
By Henry David Thoreau
The New Testament is remarkable for its pure morality; the best of the Hindoo Scripture, for its pure intellectuality. The reader is nowhere r...
By Henry David Thoreau
The newspaper is a Bible which we read every morning and every afternoon, standing and sitting, riding and walking. It is a Bible which every ...
By Henry David Thoreau
The indescribable innocence and beneficence of Nature,—of sun and wind and rain, of summer and winter,—such health, such cheer, they affor...
By Henry David Thoreau
The island seemed deserted to-day, yet I observed some new houses among the weather-stained ones, as if the tribe still had a design upon life...
By Henry David Thoreau
The best books are not read even by those who are called good readers. What does our Concord culture amount to? There is in this town, with a ...
By Henry David Thoreau
The best thing a man can do for his culture when he is rich is to endeavor to carry out those schemes which he entertained when he was poor.
By Henry David Thoreau
The chief want, in every State that I have been into, was a high and earnest purpose in its inhabitants. This alone draws out 'the great resou...
By Henry David Thoreau
The child should have the advantage of ignorance as well as of knowledge, and is fortunate if he gets his share of neglect and exposure.
By Henry David Thoreau
The constant abrasion and decay of our lives makes the soil of our future growth.
By Henry David Thoreau
The Eastern steamboat passed us with music and a cheer, as if they were going to a ball, when they might be going to—Davy's locker.
By Henry David Thoreau
The aim of the laborer should be, not to get his living, to get 'a good job,' but to perform well a certain work; and, even in a pecuniary sen...
By Henry David Thoreau
The amount of it is, if a man is alive, there is always danger that he may die, though the danger must be allowed to be less in proportion as ...
By Henry David Thoreau
The animal merely makes a bed, which he warms with his body, in a sheltered place; but man, having discovered fire, boxes up some air in a spa...
By Henry David Thoreau
The artist and his work are not to be separated. The most willfully foolish man cannot stand aloof from his folly, but the deed and the doer t...
By Henry David Thoreau
The boatmen appeared to lead an easy and contented life, and we thought that we should prefer their employment ourselves to many professions w...
By Henry David Thoreau
The book has never been written which is to be accepted without any allowance.
By Henry David Thoreau
The cheapest way to travel, and the way to travel the farthest in the shortest distance, is to go afoot, carrying a dipper, a spoon, and a fis...
By Henry David Thoreau
Still we live meanly, like ants; though the fable tells us that we were long ago changed into men; like pygmies we fight with cranes; it is er...
By Henry David Thoreau
Stuff a cold and starve a cold are but two ways. They are the two practices, both always in full blast. Yet you must take the advice of the on...
By Henry David Thoreau
Such is oftenest the young man's introduction to the forest, and the most original part of himself. He goes thither at first as a hunter and f...
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Such is the never-failing beauty and accuracy of language, the most perfect art in the world; the chisel of a thousand years retouches it.
By Henry David Thoreau
That excitement about Kossuth, consider how characteristic, but superficial, it was!—only another kind of politics or dancing. Men were maki...
By Henry David Thoreau