Henry David Thoreau quotes - page 29

Whether the flower looks better in the nosegay than in the meadow where it grew and we had to wet our feet to get it Is the scholastic air any advantage. (Henry David Thoreau)
If I were confined to a corner of a garret all my days, like a spider, the world would be just as large to me while I had my thoughts about me. View quote
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The perch swallows the grub-worm, the pickerel swallows the perch, and the fisherman swallows the pickerel and so all the chinks in the scale of being are filled. View quote
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There are continents and seas in the moral world, to which every man is an isthmus or inlet, yet unexplored by him. View quote
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We should go forth on the shortest walk perchance, in the spirit of undying adventure, never to return, - prepared to send back our embalmed hearts only as relics to our desolate kingdoms. View quote
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The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly. View quote
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Having each some shingles of thought well dried, we sat and whittled them. View quote
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Those things for which the most money is demanded are never the things which the student most wants. Tuition, for instance, is an important item in the term bill, while for the far more valuable education which he gets by associating with the most cultivated of his contemporaries no charge is made. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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)
Explore thyself. Herein are demanded the eye and the nerve. View quote
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The stars are the apexes of what triangles. View quote
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A man thinks as well through his legs and arms as this brain. View quote
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It requires nothing less than a chivalric feeling to sustain a conversation with a lady. View quote
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There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root, and it may be that he who bestows the largest amount of time and money on the needy is doing the most by his mode of life to produce that misery which he strives in vain to relieve. View quote
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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. View quote
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The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. View quote
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Writing may be either the record of a deed or a deed. It is nobler when it is a deed. View quote
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Decay and disease are often beautiful, like the pearly tear of the shellfish and the hectic glow of consumption. View quote
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When some of my friends have asked me anxiously about their boys, whether they should let them hunt, I have answered yes-- remembering that it was one of the best parts of my education-- make them hunters. (Henry David Thoreau)
In what concerns you much, do not think that you have companions: know that you are alone in the world. View quote
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There is a difference between eating and drinking for strength and for mere gluttony. View quote
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The three-o'-clock in the morning courage, which Bonaparte thought was the rarest. View quote
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We perceive and are affected by changes too subtle to be described. View quote
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