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Some, it seems to me, elect their rulers for their crookedness. But I think that a straight stick makes the best cane, and an upright man the best ruler (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do not want society (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
Every nail driven should be as another rivet in the machine of the universe, you carrying on the work (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
There is a slumbering subterranean fire in nature which never goes out, and which no cold can chill (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
A healthy man, indeed, is the complement of the seasons, and in winter, summer is in his heart (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
The wonderful purity of nature at this season is a most pleasing fact... In the bare fields and tinkling woods, see what virtue survives. In the coldest and bleakest places, the warmest charities still maintain a foothold (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
Winter is the time for study, you know, and the colder it is the more studious we are (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
The change from storm and winter to serene and mild weather, from dark and sluggish hours to bright and elastic ones, is a memorable crisis which all things proclaim. It is seemingly instantaneous at last (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
Pray, for what do we move ever but to get rid of our furniture, our exuviæ; at last to go from this world to another newly furnished, and leave this to be burned? (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
It would surpass the powers of a well man nowadays to take up his bed and walk, and I should certainly advise a sick one to lay down his bed and run (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
The customs of some savage nations might, perchance, be profitably imitated by us, for they at least go through the semblance of casting their slough annually; they have the idea of the thing, whether they have the reality or not (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
To enjoy a thing exclusively is commonly to exclude yourself from the true enjoyment of it (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
Almost any mode of observation will be successful at last, for what is most wanted is method (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
If the condition of things which we were made for is not yet, what were any reality which we can substitute? We will not be shipwrecked on a vain reality (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
All that are printed and bound are not books; they do not necessarily belong to letters, but are oftener to be ranked with the other luxuries and appendages of civilized life. Base wares are palmed off under a thousand disguises (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
A man sees only what concerns him... How much more, then, it requires different intentions of the eye and of the mind to attend to different departments of knowledge! How differently the poet and the naturalist look at objects! (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
The scholar is not apt to make his most familiar experience come gracefully to the aid of his expression (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
The intercourse of the sexes, I have dreamed, is incredibly beautiful, too fair to be remembered. I have had thoughts about it, but they are among the most fleeting and irrecoverable in my experience (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
It requires more than a day’s devotion to know and to possess the wealth of a day (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
If within the sophisticated man there is not an unsophisticated one, then he is but one of the devil’s angels (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
In the unbending of the arm to do the deed there is experience worth all the maxims in the world (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
That is mere sentimentality that lies abed by day and thinks itself white, far from the tan and callus of experience (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
One can hardly imagine a more healthful employment, or one more favorable to contemplation and the observation of nature (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
Steady labor with the hands, which engrosses the attention also, is unquestionably the best method of removing palaver and sentimentality out of one’s style, both of speaking and writing (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
Though the hen should sit all day, she could lay only one egg, and, besides, would not have picked up materials for another (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
The truth is, there is money buried everywhere, and you have only to go to work to find it (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
It is the art of mankind to polish the world, and every one who works is scrubbing in some part (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
Are you in want of amusement nowadays? Then play a little at the game of getting a living. There was never anything equal to it. Do it temperately, though, and don’t sweat (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
If thousands are thrown out of employment, it suggests that they were not well employed. Why don’t they take the hint? It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about? (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
Cold and hunger seem more friendly to my nature than those methods which men have adopted and advise to ward them off (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)