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Nations are possessed with an insane ambition to perpetuate the memory of themselves by the amount of hammered stone they leave. What if equal pains were taken to smooth and polish their manners? (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
Most of the stone a nation hammers goes toward its tomb only. It buries itself alive (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgress them at once? (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
Friends will be much apart. They will respect more each other’s privacy than their communion (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
Most think that they are above being supported by the town; but it oftener happens that they are not above supporting themselves by dishonest means, which would be more disreputable (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
The sort of morality which the priests inculcate is a very subtle policy, far finer than the politicians’, and the world is very successfully ruled by them as the policemen (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
The fact which the politician faces is merely that there is less honor among thieves than was supposed, and not the fact that theyare thieves (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
They who have been bred in the school of politics fail now and always to face the facts. Their measures are half measures and makeshifts merely. They put off the day of settlement, and meanwhile the debt accumulates (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
Can there be any greater reproach than an idle learning? Learn to split wood, at least (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
The news we hear, for the most part, is not news to our genius. It is the stalest repetition (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
Could slavery suggest a more complete servility than some of these journals exhibit? Is there any dust which their conduct does not lick, and make fouler still with its slime? (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always. The conscience really does not, and ought not to monopolizethe whole of our lives, any more than the heart or the head. It is as liable to disease as any other part (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
To the virtuous man, the universe is the only sanctum sanctorum, and the penetralia of the temple are the broad noon of his existence (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
He who eats the fruit should at least plant the seed; ay, if possible, a better seed than that whose fruit he has enjoyed (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
Men have a singular desire to be good without being good for anything, because, perchance, they think vaguely that so it will be good for them in the end (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
It is not so important that many should be good as you, as that there be some absolute goodness somewhere; for that will leaven the whole lump (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
Where there is not discernment, the behavior even of the purest soul may in effect amount to coarseness (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
It becomes the moralist, too, to inquire what man might do to improve and beautify the system; what to make the stars shine more brightly, the sun more cheery and joyous, the moon more placid and content (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
There is no ill which may not be dissipated, like the dark, if you let in a stronger light upon it (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
I never dreamed of any enormity greater than I have committed. I never knew, and never shall know, a worse man than myself (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
Man makes very much such a nest for his domestic animals, of withered grass and fodder, as the squirrels and many other wild creatures do for themselves (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
This generation has come into the world fatally late for some enterprises. Go where we will on the surface of things, men have been there before us... But the lives of men, though more extended laterally in their range, are still as shallow as ever (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
Insane!... Ask the tyrant who is his most dangerous foe, the sane man or the insane? (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
If private men are obliged to perform the offices of government, to protect the weak and dispense justice, then the government becomes only a hired man, or clerk, to perform menial or indifferent services (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
When a noble deed is done, who is likely to appreciate it? They who are noble themselves (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
In my short experience of human life, the outward obstacles, if there were any such, have not been living men, but the institutions of the dead (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
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 witness would ever have taken place! (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
The higher the mountain on which you stand, the less change in the prospect from year to year, from age to age. Above a certain height there is no change (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
Nearest to all things is that power which fashions their being. Next to us the grandest laws are constantly being executed. Next to us is not the workman whom we have hired, with whom we love so well to talk, but the workman whose work we are (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)