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It is a sublime conservatism; as wide as the world, and as unwearied as time; preserving the universe with Asiatic anxiety, in that state in w...
By Henry David Thoreau
It is a wild, rank place, and there is no flattery in it. Strewn with crabs, horseshoes, and razor clams, and whatever the sea casts up,—a v...
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It is life near the bone where it is sweetest. You are defended from being a trifler.
By Henry David Thoreau
It is not enough that our life is an easy one. We must live on the stretch, retiring to our rest like soldiers on the eve of a battle, looking...
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It is not every man who can be a Christian, even in a very moderate sense, whatever education you give him. It is a matter of constitution and...
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In my cheapest moments I am apt to think that it is n't my business to be 'seeking the spirit,' but as much its business to be seeking me.
By Henry David Thoreau
In the production of the necessaries of life Nature is ready enough to assist man.
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In the wildest nature, there is not only the material of the most cultivated life, and a sort of anticipation of the last result, but a greate...
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In this country, the village should in some respects take the place of the nobleman of Europe. It should be the patron of the fine arts. It is...
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Indeed, there is hardly the professor in our colleges, who, if he has mastered the difficulties of the language, has proportionally mastered t...
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Inexpressibly beautiful appears the recognition by man of the least natural fact, and the allying his life to it.
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Is it not singular that, while the religious world is gradually picking to pieces its old testaments, here are some coming slowly after, on th...
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If there were one who lived wholly without the use of money, the State itself would hesitate to demand it of him. But the rich man—not to ma...
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If you stand right fronting and face to face to a fact, you will see the sun glimmer on both its surfaces, as if it were a cimeter, and feel i...
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In a pure society, the subject of marriage would not be so often avoided,—from shame and not from reverence, winked out of sight, and hinted...
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In all perception of the truth there is a divine ecstasy, an inexpressible delirium of joy, as when a youth embraces his betrothed virgin. The...
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In any weather, at any hour of the day or night, I have been anxious to improve the nick of time, and notch it on my stick too; to stand on th...
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If a man was tossed out of a window when an infant, and so made a cripple for life, or scared out of his wits by the Indians, it is regretted ...
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If common sense had been consulted, how many marriages would never have taken place; if uncommon or divine sense, how few marriages such as we...
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If I choose to devote myself to certain labors which yield more real profit, though but little money, they may be inclined to look on me as an...
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If I were consciously to join any party, it would be that which is the most free to entertain thought.
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If it is the result of a pure love, there can be nothing sensual in marriage. Chastity is something positive, not negative. It is the virtue o...
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If the laborer gets no more than the wages which his employer pays him, he is cheated, he cheats himself.
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I should say that the most prominent scientific men of our country, and perhaps of this age, are either serving the arts and not pure science,...
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I sometimes wonder that we can be so frivolous ... as to attend to the gross but somewhat foreign form of servitude called Negro Slavery, ther...
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I think that Nature meant kindly when she made our brothers few. However, my voice is still for peace.
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