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Henry David Thoreau Quotes

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Many an object is not seen, though it falls within the range of our visual ray, because it does not come within the range of our intellectual ray  (Henry David Thoreau Quotes) I am struck by the simplicity of light in the atmosphere in the autumn, as if the earth absorbed none, and out of this profusion of dazzling light came the autumnal tints  (Henry David Thoreau Quotes) No human 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 sail, the play of its pulse so like our own lives: so thin and yet so full of life, so noiseless when it labors hardest, so noisy and impatient when least effective  (Henry David Thoreau Quotes) The best thing a man can do for his culture when he is rich is to endeavor to carry out those schemes which he entertained when he was poor  (Henry David Thoreau Quotes) The culture of the hop... so analagous to the culture and uses of the grape, may afford a theme for future poets  (Henry David Thoreau Quotes) How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends, that we might go and meet their ideal cousins  (Henry David Thoreau Quotes) What wealth is it to have such friends that we cannot think of them without elevation!  (Henry David Thoreau Quotes) How can we expect a harvest of thought who have not had a seedtime of character?  (Henry David Thoreau Quotes) There is more religion in men’s science, than there is science in their religion  (Henry David Thoreau Quotes) In accumulating property for ourselves or our posterity, in founding a family or a state, or acquiring fame even, we are mortal; but in dealing with truth we are immortal, and need fear no change nor accident  (Henry David Thoreau Quotes) One attraction in coming to the woods to live was that I should have leisure and opportunity to see the spring come in  (Henry David Thoreau Quotes) The eye which can appreciate the naked and absolute beauty of a scientific truth is far more rare than that which is attracted by a moral one  (Henry David Thoreau Quotes) I do not see why the schoolmaster should be taxed to support the priest, and not the priest the schoolmaster  (Henry David Thoreau Quotes) When will the world learn that a million men are of no importance compared with one man?  (Henry David Thoreau Quotes) Anyone in a free society where the laws are unjust has an obligation to break the law  (Henry David Thoreau Quotes) The authority of government... can have no pure right over my person and property but what I concede to it  (Henry David Thoreau Quotes) Since most of us spend our lives doing ordinary tasks, the most important thing is to carry them out extraordinarily well  (Henry David Thoreau Quotes) Nature is fair in proportion as the youth is pure. The heavens and the earth are one flower ; the earth is the calyx, the heavens the corolla  (Henry David Thoreau Quotes) We should seek to be fellow students with the pupil, and should learn of, as well as with him, if we would be most helpful to him  (Henry David Thoreau Quotes) Nature is doing her best each moment to make us well. She exists for no other end. Do not resist. With the least inclination to be well, we should not be sick  (Henry David Thoreau Quotes) Do not despair of life. Think of the fox, prowling in a winter night to satisfy his hunger. His race survives; I do not believe any of them ever committed suicide  (Henry David Thoreau Quotes) Shall I not rejoice also at the abundance of the weeds whose seeds are the granary of the birds?  (Henry David Thoreau Quotes) Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled  (Henry David Thoreau Quotes) Almost any man knows how to earn money, but not one in a million knows how to spend it  (Henry David Thoreau Quotes) If I devote myself to other pursuits and contemplations, I must first see, at least, that I do not pursue them sitting upon another man’s shoulders. I must get off him first, that he may pursue his contemplations too  (Henry David Thoreau Quotes) If a man believes and expects great things of himself, it makes no odds where you put him, or what you show him.. he will be surrounded by grandeur  (Henry David Thoreau Quotes) Our last 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) While my friend was my friend, he flattered me, and I never heard the truth from him. When he became my enemy, he shot it to me on a poisoned arrow  (Henry David Thoreau Quotes) I have heard of many going astray even in the village streets, when the darkness was so thick you could cut it with a knife, as the saying is  (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
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