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Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant’s truce between virtue and vice (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
It is true, I never assisted the sun materially in his rising, but doubt not, it was of the last importance only to be present at it (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
All the past is here, present to be tried; let it approve itself if it can (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
Color, which is the poet’s wealth, is so expensive that most take to mere outline sketches and become men of science (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
The best poets, after all, exhibit only a tame and civil side of nature. They have not seen the west side of any mountain (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
A farmer, a hunter, a soldier, a reporter, even a philosopher, may be daunted; but nothing can deter a poet, for he is actuated by pure love. Who can predict his comings and goings? His business calls him out at all hours, even when doctors sleep (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
I know of no redeeming qualities in myself but a sincere love for some things, and when I am reproved I fall back on to this ground (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
I only desire sincere relations with the worthiest of my acquaintance, that they may give me an opportunity once in a year to speak the truth (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
There are two classes of authors: the one write the history of their times, the other their biography (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
Age is no better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it has lost (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
Poetry is the only life got, the only work done, the only pure product and free labor of man, performed only when he has put all the world under his feet, and conquered the last of his foes (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
Speech is for the convenience of those who are hard of hearing; but there are many fine things which we cannot say if we have to shout (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling and spending their lives like servants (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
I have found it to be the most serious objection to coarse labors long continued, that they compelled me to eat and drink coarsely also (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
I suppose you think that persons who are as old as your father and myself are always thinking about very grave things, but I know that we are meditating the same old themes that we did when we were ten years old, only we go more gravely about it (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
On the death of a friend, we should consider that the fates through confidence have devolved on us the task of a double living, that we have henceforth to fulfill the promise of our friend’s life also, in our own, to the world (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
Should not every apartment in which man dwells be lofty enough to create some obscurity overhead, where flickering shadows may play at evening about the rafters? (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
Nowadays the host does not admit you to his hearth, but has got the mason to build one for yourself somewhere in his alley, and hospitality is the art of keeping you at the greatest distance (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
If the fairest features of the landscape are to be named after men, let them be the noblest and worthiest men alone (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
A name pronounced is the recognition of the individual to whom it belongs. He who can pronounce my name aright, he can call me, and is entitled to my love and service (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
I fear chiefly lest my expression may not be extravagant enough, may not wander far enough beyond the narrow limit of my daily experience, so as to be adequate to the truth of which I have been convinced (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
What is peculiar in the life of a man consists not in his obedience, but his opposition, to his instincts. In one direction or another he strives to live a supernatural life (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I’m sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
The mass never comes up to the standard of its best member, but on the contrary degrades itself to a level with the lowest (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
I lose my respect for the man who can make the mystery of sex the subject of a coarse jest, yet when you speak earnestly and seriously on the subject, is silent (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
Every man will be a poet if he can; otherwise a philosopher or man of science. This proves the superiority of the poet (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)