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| b92121e | I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors. They have told me nothing, and probably cannot tell me anything to the purpose. Here is life, an experiment to a great extent untried by me; but it does not avail me that they have tried it. If I have any experience which I think valuable, I am sure to reflect that this my Mentors said nothing about | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 6bdd546 | Every part of nature teaches that the passing away of one life is the making room for another. The oak dies down to the ground, leaving within its rind a rich virgin mould, which will impart a vigorous life to an infant forest. The pine leaves a sandy and sterile soil, the harder woods a strong and fruitful mould. So this constant abrasion and decay makes the soil of my future growth. As I live now so shall I reap. If I grow pines and birch.. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 57c4a0a | The Harivansa says, "An abode without birds is like a meat without seasoning." Such was not my abode, for I found myself suddenly neighbor to the birds; not by having imprisoned one, but having caged myself near them." | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| ba79b90 | I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well. Unfortunately, I am confined to this theme by the narrowness of my experience. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 32eb2b0 | No man loses ever on a lower level by magnanimity on a higher. Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only. Money is not required to buy one necessary of the soul. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| c03c97b | I am of the nature of Stone. It takes the summer's sun to warm it. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| d37d28a | With a little more deliberation in the choice of their pursuits, all men would perhaps become essentially students and observers, for certainly their nature and destiny are interesting to all alike. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| a642c14 | He was so genuine and unsophisticated that no introduction would serve to introduce him, more than if you introduced a woodchuck to your neighbor. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| a9ce4ad | The simple style is bad for the savage because he does worse than to obtain the luxuries of life; it is good for the philosopher because he does better than to work for them. The question is whether you can bear freedom.... | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 62da920 | They required to be dusted daily, when the furniture of my mind was all undusted still. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 32b1cab | If you would get exercise, go in search of the springs of life. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 99fa7ed | No puedo creer que nuestro sistema industrial sea el mejor modo por el que podamos vestirnos. La condicion de los obreros se parece cada dia mas a la de los ingleses y no hay que sorprenderse, ya que, por lo que he oido y observado, el objetivo principal no es que la humanidad este bien y honestamente vestida, sino, indudablemente, que las corporaciones se enriquezcan. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| cb78234 | Every day or two I strolled to the village to hear some of the gossip which is incessantly going on there, circulating either from mouth to mouth, or from newspaper to newspaper, and which, taken in homeopathic doses, was really as refreshing in its way as the rustle of leaves and the peeping of frogs. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 3d1463e | That man who does not believe that each day contains an earlier, more sacred, and auroral hour than he has yet profaned, has despaired of life, and is pursuing a descending and darkening way. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 89cab63 | Shall we always study to obtain more of these things, and not sometimes to be content with less? | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| a20c067 | I like sometimes to take rank hold on life and spend my day more as the animals do. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 2225269 | He understood, as he would write in "Walking," that "the hero is commonly the simplest and obscurest of men." -- | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 33b2fec | The soil, it appears, is suited to the seed, for it has sent its radicle downward, and it may now send its shoot upward also with confidence. Why has man rooted himself thus firmly in the earth, but that he may rise in the same proportion into the heavens above? | seed soil | Henry David Thoreau | |
| b1708a3 | Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined. - Henry David Thoreau | Andy C.E. Brown | ||
| e130a29 | They make their pride," he said, "in making their dinner cost much; I make my pride in making my dinner cost little." When asked at table what dish he preferred, he answered, "The nearest." | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| afd3c56 | What is man but a mass of thawing clay? The ball of the human finger is but a drop congealed. The fingers and toes flow to their extent from the thawing mass of the body. Who knows what the human body would expand and flow out to under a more genial heaven? Is not the hand a spreading leaf with its lobes and veins? The ear may be regarded, fancifully, as a lichen, , on the side of the head, with its lobe or drop. The lip-- | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 9e391d3 | A single farm-house which I had not seen before is sometimes as good as the dominions of the King of Dahomey. There is in fact a sort of harmony discoverable between the capabilities of the landscape within a circle of ten miles' radius, or the limits of an afternoon walk, and the threescore years and ten of human life. It will never become quite familiar to you. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| add5c6c | I walk out into a Nature such as the old prophets and poets, Manu, Moses, Homer, Chaucer, walked in. You may name it America, but it is not America: neither Americus Vespucius, nor Columbus, nor the rest were the discoverers of it. There is a truer account of it in mythology than in any history of America, so called, that I have seen. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 988640c | Our manners have been corrupted by communication with the saints. Our hymn-books resound with a melodious cursing of God and enduring Him forever. One would say that even the prophets and redeemers had rather consoled the fears than confirmed the hopes of man. There is nowhere recorded a simple and irrepressible satisfaction with the gift of life, any memorable praise of God. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 247bdec | it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 36af61b | Man and his affairs, church and state and school, trade and commerce, and manufactures and agriculture even politics, the most alarming of them all--I am pleased to see how little space they occupy in the landscape. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| dcdf0b2 | But I would say to my fellows, once for all, As long as possible live free and uncommitted. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| bd5c393 | We might climb a tree, at least. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 71886eb | It is surprising how many great men and women a small house will contain. I have had twenty-five or thirty souls, with their bodies, at once under my roof, and yet we often parted without being aware that we had come very near to one another. | simple-living small-house | Henry David Thoreau | |
| 2ad9b42 | We do not go into the woods to rough it; we go to smooth it. We get it rough enough at home. --GEORGE WASHINGTON SEARS Now or never. --HENRY DAVID THOREAU I get faster as I get older. --EMMA GATEWOOD | Ben Montgomery | ||
| a08b0fe | I cannot but think that if we had more true wisdom in these respects, not only less education would be needed, because, forsooth, more would already have been acquired, but the pecuniary expense of getting an education would in a great measure vanish. Those conveniences which the student requires at Cambridge or elsewhere cost him or somebody else ten times as great a sacrifice of life as they would with proper management on both sides. Tho.. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| e606145 | The doctors are all agreed that I am suffering from want of society. Was never a case like it. First, I did not know that I was suffering at all. Secondly, as an Irishman might say, I had thought it was indigestion of the society I got. | solitude | Henry David Thoreau | |
| 7f39749 | Be sure that you give the poor the aid they most need, though it be your example which leaves them far behind. If you give money, spend yourself with it, and do not merely abandon it to them. | charity money poor | Henry David Thoreau | |
| d8a37c8 | We might try our lives by a thousand simple tests; as, for instance, that the same sun which ripens my beans illumines at once a system of earths like ours. If I had remembered this it would have prevented some mistakes. This was not the light in which I hoed them. The stars are the apexes of what wonderful triangles! What distant and different beings in the various mansions of the universe are contemplating the same one at the same moment! | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| d0963c4 | Girls and boys and young women generally seemed glad to be in the woods. They looked in the pond and at the flowers, and improved their time. Men of business, even farmers, thought only of solitude and employment, and of the great distance at which I dwelt from something or other; and though they said that they loved a ramble in the woods occasionally, it was obvious that they did not. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 3a15a7b | My purpose in going to Walden Pond was not to live cheaply nor to live dearly there but to transact some private business, with the fewest obstacles... It's a good place for business... | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| db713e1 | English literature, from the days of the minstrels to the Lake Poets--Chaucer and Spenser and Milton, and even Shakespeare, included--breathes no quite fresh and, in this sense, wild strain. It is an essentially tame and civilized literature, reflecting Greece and Rome. ... Where is the literature which gives expression to Nature? ... I do not know of any poetry to quote which adequately expresses this yearning for the Wild. ... The West i.. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| d363619 | Cosi i governi ci dimostrano quanto facilmente gli uomini possano essere ingannati e persino autoingannarsi nel proprio interesse. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 2bb8e00 | Sometimes, in a summer morning, having taken my accustomed bath, I sat in my sunny doorway from sunrise till noon, rapt in a revery, amidst the pines and hickories and sumachs, in undisturbed solitude and stillness, while the birds sing around or flitted noiseless through the house, until by the sun falling in at my west window, or the noise of some traveller's wagon on the distant highway, I was reminded of the lapse of time. I grew in tho.. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 34ac8df | I have learned that the swiftest traveller is he that goes a-foot. I say to my friend, Suppose we try who will get there first. The distance is thirty miles, the fare ninety cents. That is almost a day's wage. I remember when wages were sixty cents a-day for labourers on this very road. Well, I start now on foot, and get there before night; I have travelled at that rate by the week together. You will in the meanwhile have earned your fare, .. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 7cfbccc | The repugnance to animal food is not the effect of experience, but it is instinct. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 9505b73 | We are made to exaggerate the importance of what work we do; and yet how much is not done by us! | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 5174942 | To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise, and one that will task the reader more than any exercise which the customs of the day esteem. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| f5b7c1e | The white man comes, pale as the dawn, with a load of thought, with a slumbering intelligence as a fire raked up, knowing well what he knows, not guessing but calculating; strong in community, yielding obedience to authority; of experienced race; of wonderful, wonderful common sense; dull but capable, slow but persevering, severe but just, of little humor but genuine; a laboring man, despising game and sport; building a house that endures, .. | Henry David Thoreau |