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Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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To have made even one person’s life a little better, that is to succeed (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
No doubt another may also think for me; but it is not therefore desirable that he should do so to the exclusion of my thinking for myself (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
Some do not walk at all; others walk in the highways; a few walk across lots (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
I, who cannot stay in my chamber for a single day without acquiring some rust, and when sometimes I have stolen forth for a walk at the eleventh hour of four o’clock in the afternoon, too late to redeem the day, when the shades of night were already beginning to be mingled with the daylight, have felt as if I had committed some sin to be atoned for (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
My desire for knowledge is intermittent; but my desire to commune with the spirit of the universe, to be intoxicated with the fumes, call it, of that divine nectar, to bear my head through atmospheres and over heights unknown to my feet, is perennial and constant (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
Left to herself, nature is always more or less civilized, and delights in a certain refinement; but where the axe has encroached upon the edge of the forest, the dead and unsightly limbs of the pine, which she had concealed with green banks of verdure, are exposed to sight (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
I am as desirous of being a good neighbor as I am of being a bad subject (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
Our least deed, like the young of the land crab, wends its way to the sea of cause and effect as soon as born, and makes a drop there to eternity (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
No humane being, past the thoughtless age of boyhood, will wantonly murder any creature which holds its life by the same tenure that he does (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)