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The sun rarely shines in history, what with the dust and confusion; and when we meet with any cheering fact which implies the presence of this luminary, we excerpt and modernize it (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
There are secret articles in our treaties with the gods, of more importance than all the rest, which the historian can never know (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
It has been so written, for the most part, that the times it describes are with remarkable propriety called dark ages. They are dark, as one has observed, because we are so in the dark about them (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
Both place and time were changed, and I dwelt nearer to those parts of the universe and to those eras in history which had most attracted me (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
A man will not need to study history to find out what is best for his own culture (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
If there is nothing new on the earth, still the traveler always has a resource in the skies. They are constantly turning a new page to view. The wind sets the types on this blue ground, and the inquiring may always read a new truth there (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
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 one school as if there was no other (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
Your scheme must be the framework of the universe; all other schemes will soon be ruins (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
It is not enough that we are truthful; we must cherish and carry out high purposes to be truthful about (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
There is none who does not lie hourly in the respect he pays to false appearance (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
How sweet it would be to treat men and things, for an hour, for just what they are! (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
You speak of poverty and dependence. Who are poor and dependent? Who are rich and independent? When was it that men agreed to respect the appearance and not the reality? (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
What stuff is the man made of who is not coexistent in our thought with the purest and sublimest truth? (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
If all were as it seems, and men made the elements their servants for noble ends! (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
If you are a seer, whenever you meet a man you will see all that he owns, ay, and much that he pretends to disown, behind him (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
The front aspect of great thoughts can only be enjoyed by those who stand on the side whence they arrive (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
When one man has reduced a fact of the imagination to be a fact to his understanding, I foresee that all men will at length establish their lives on that basis (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
I have heard a good many pretend that they are going to die; or that they have died, for aught that I know. Nonsense! I’ll defy them to do it. They have n’t got life enough in them... Only half a dozen or so have died since the world began (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
So soon did we, wayfarers, begin to learn that man’s life is rounded with the same few facts, the same simple relations everywhere, and it is vain to travel to find it new (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
So near along life’s stream are the fountains of innocence and youth making fertile its sandy margin; and the voyageur will do well to replenish his vessels often at these uncontaminated sources (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
Inexpressibly beautiful appears the recognition by man of the least natural fact, and the allying his life to it (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
I am not afraid that I shall exaggerate the value and significance of life, but that I shall not be up to the occasion which it is (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
This life we live is a strange dream, and I don’t believe at all any account men give of it (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
What an admirable training is science for the more active warfare of life! Indeed, the unchallenged bravery which these studies imply, is far more impressive than the trumpeted valor of the warrior (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
A thoroughbred business man cannot enter heartily upon the business of life without first looking into his accounts (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
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 forward to the strenuous sortie of the morrow (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
I fear that we are such gods or demigods only as fauns and satyrs, the divine allied to beasts, the creatures of appetite, and that, to some extent, our very life is our disgrace (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
The whole of the day should not be daytime; there should be one hour, if not more, which the day did not bring forth (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
Some hard and dry book in a dead language, which you have found it impossible to read at home, but for which you still have a lingering regard, is the best to carry with you on a journey (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
Certainly, we do not need to be soothed and entertained always like children. He who resorts to the easy novel, because he is languid, does no better than if he took a nap (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)