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Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.
By Henry David Thoreau
Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
By Henry David Thoreau
Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.
By Henry David Thoreau
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
By Henry David Thoreau
The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.
By Henry David Thoreau
Yet the New Testament treats of man and man's so-called spiritual affairs too exclusively, and is too constantly moral and personal, to alone ...
By Henry David Thoreau
You come from attending the funeral of mankind to attend to a natural phenomenon. A little thought is sexton to all the world.
By Henry David Thoreau
You would not have thought, if you had seen him lying about thus, that he was the proprietor of so many acres in that neighborhood, was worth ...
By Henry David Thoreau
Your method of traveling, especially,—to live along the road, citizens of the world, without haste or petty plans,—I have often proposed t...
By Henry David Thoreau
Who knows what sort of seventeen-year locust will next come out of the ground?
By Henry David Thoreau
Why care for these dead bodies? They really have no friends but the worms or fishes. Their owners were coming to the New World, as Columbus an...
By Henry David Thoreau
You may melt your metals and cast them into the most beautiful moulds you can; they will never excite me like the forms which this molten eart...
By Henry David Thoreau
You may raise enough money to tunnel a mountain, but you cannot raise money enough to hire a man who is minding his own business.
By Henry David Thoreau
When, at rare intervals, some thought visits one, as perchance he is walking on a railroad, then, indeed, the cars go by without his hearing t...
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While I enjoy the friendship of the seasons I trust that nothing can make life a burden to me.
By Henry David Thoreau
Why should not our whole life and its scenery be actually thus fair and distinct? All our lives want a suitable background. They should at lea...
By Henry David Thoreau
Will mankind never learn that policy is not morality,—that it never secures any moral right, but considers merely what is expedient? chooses...
By Henry David Thoreau
When I meet a government which says to me, 'Your money or your life,' why should I be in haste to give it my money?
By Henry David Thoreau
When the finishing stroke was put to his work, it suddenly expanded before the eyes of the astonished artist into the fairest of all the creat...
By Henry David Thoreau
When the leaves fall, the whole earth is a cemetery pleasant to walk in. I love to wander and muse over them in their graves. Here are no lyin...
By Henry David Thoreau
When the State wishes to endow an academy or university, it grants it a tract of forest land: one saw represents an academy, a gang, a univers...
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When we are in health, all sounds fife and drum for us; we hear the notes of music in the air, or catch its echoes dying away when we awake in...
By Henry David Thoreau
What a glorious time they must have in that wilderness, far from mankind and election day!
By Henry David Thoreau