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What an admirable training is science for the more active warfare of life! Indeed, the unchallenged bravery which these studies imply, is far ...
By Henry David Thoreau
What avail all your scholarly accomplishments and learning, compared with wisdom and manhood? To omit his other behavior, see what a work this...
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What do the botanists know? Our lives should go between the lichen and the bark. The eye may see for the hand, but not for the mind. We are st...
By Henry David Thoreau
What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
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What is called politics is comparatively something so superficial and inhuman, that practically I have never fairly recognized that it concern...
By Henry David Thoreau
We know of no scripture which records the pure benignity of the gods on a New England winter night. Their praises have never been sung, only t...
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We make needless ado about capital punishment,—taking lives, when there is no life to take.
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We should omit a main attraction in these books, if we said nothing of their humor. Of this indispensable pledge of sanity, without some leave...
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We 've wholly forgotten how to die. But be sure you do die nevertheless. Do your work, and finish it. If you know how to begin, you will know ...
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We will not be imposed upon by this vast application of forces. We believe that most things will have to be accomplished still by the applicat...
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Unless we do more than simply learn the trade of our time, we are but apprentices, and not yet masters of the art of life.
By Henry David Thoreau
Verily, the Indian has but a feeble hold on his bow now; but the curiosity of the white man is insatiable, and from the first he has been eage...
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We are hedged about, we think, by accident and circumstance; now we creep as in a dream, and now again we run, as if there were a fate in it, ...
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We are independent of the change we detect. The longer the lever, the less perceptible its motion. It is the slowest pulsation which is the mo...
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We are not a religious people, but we are a nation of politicians. We do not care for the Bible, but we do care for the newspaper. At any meet...
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We are the subjects of an experiment which is not a little interesting to me.
By Henry David Thoreau
We boast that we belong to the Nineteenth Century and are making the most rapid strides of any nation. But consider how little this village do...
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We cannot but pity the boy who has never fired a gun; he is no more humane, while his education has been sadly neglected.
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We have got to know what both life and death are, before we can begin to live after our own fashion. Let us be learning our a-b- c's as soon a...
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We occasionally rested in the shade of a maple or a willow, and drew forth a melon for our refreshment, while we contemplated at our leisure t...
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We read that the traveller asked the boy if the swamp before him had a hard bottom. The boy replied that it had. But presently the traveller's...
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We saw one schoolhouse in our walk, and listened to the sounds which issued from it; but it appeared like a place where the process, not of en...
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We seem to have forgotten that the expression 'a liberal education' originally meant among the Romans one worthy of free men; while the learni...
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We are a nation of politicians, concerned about the outmost defenses only of freedom. It is our children's children who may perchance be reall...
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We are conscious of an animal in us, which awakens in proportion as our higher nature slumbers. It is reptile and sensual, and perhaps cannot ...
By Henry David Thoreau