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Men spend the best parts of their lives earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of it (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
The traveler must be born again on the road, and earn a passport from the elements (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
Such a man has some right to fish, and I love to see nature carried out in him (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
All that is told of the sea has a fabulous sound to an inhabitant of the land and all its products have a certain fabulous quality, as if they belonged to another planet (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
There is always some accident in the best things, whether thoughts or expressions or deeds. The memorable thought, the happy expression, the admirable deed are only partly ours (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
The first sparrow of spring! The year beginning with younger hope than ever!... What at such a time are histories, chronologies, traditions, and all written revelations? The brooks sing carols and glees to the spring (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
The scenery, when it is truly seen, reacts on the life of the seer. How to live. How to get the most of life... How to extract its honey from the flower of the world (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
If you look over a list of medicinal recipes in vogue in the last century, how foolish and useless they are seen to be! And yet we use equally absurd ones with faith today (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
A man’s whole life is taxed for the least thing well done. It is its net result (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man’s features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
I know a good woman who thinks that her son lost his life because he took to drinking water only (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
The earth I tread on is not a dead inert mass. It is a body, has a spirit; is organic and fluid to the influence of its spirit and to whatever particle of the spirit is in me (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
And so the seasons went rolling on into summer, as one rambles into higher and higher grass (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
The greatest gains and values are farthest from being appreciated. We easily come to doubt if they exist. We soon forget them. They are the highest reality (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
It is remarkable how easily and insensibly we fall into a particular route, and make a beaten track for ourselves (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
The life without men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others? (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
Solitude is not measured by the miles of space that intervene between a man and his fellows (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
Some poems are for holidays only. They are polished and sweet, but it is the sweetness of sugar, and not such as toil gives to sour bread. The breath with which the poet utters his verse must be that by which he lives (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
Our taste is too delicate and particular. It says nay to the poet’s work, but never yea to his hope (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
There are two classes of men called poets. The one cultivates life, the other art,... one satisfies hunger, the other gratifies the palate (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
The poet’s body even is not fed like other men’s, but he sometimes tastes the genuine nectar and ambrosia of the gods, and lives adivine life. By the healthful and invigorating thrills of inspiration his life is preserved to a serene old age (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
The poet is he who can write some pure mythology today without the aid of posterity (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
The poet who walks by moonlight is conscious of a tide in his thought which is to be referred to lunar influence (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
The poet will maintain serenity in spite of all disappointments. He is expected to preserve an unconcerned and healthy outlook over the world, while he lives (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
In the religion of all nations a purity is hinted at, which, I fear, men never attain to (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
Each humblest plant, or weed, as we call it, stands there to express some thought or mood of ours; and yet how long it stands in vain!... Beauty and true wealth are always thus cheap and despised (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
The object of love expands and grows before us to eternity, until it includes all that is lovely, and we become all that can love (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
Whatever beauty we behold, the more it is distant, serene, and cold, the purer and more durable it is. It is better to warm ourselves with ice than with fire (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
It is not easy to make our lives respectable by any course of activity. We must repeatedly withdraw into our shells of thought, like the tortoise, somewhat helplessly; yet there is more than philosophy in that (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
We should treat our minds, that is, ourselves, as innocent and ingenuous children, whose guardians we are, and be careful what objects and what subjects we thrust on their attention (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)