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The world is a cow that is hard to milk,—life does not come so easy,—and oh, how thinly it is watered ere we get it!
By Henry David Thoreau
There are two classes of men called poets. The one cultivates life, the other art,... one satisfies hunger, the other gratifies the palate.
By Henry David Thoreau
There have been heroes for whom this world seemed expressly prepared, as if creation had at last succeeded; whose daily life was the stuff of ...
By Henry David Thoreau
There is on the earth no institution which Friendship has established; it is not taught by any religion; no scripture contains its maxims. It ...
By Henry David Thoreau
The sort of morality which the priests inculcate is a very subtle policy, far finer than the politicians', and the world is very successfully ...
By Henry David Thoreau
The student who secures his coveted leisure and retirement by systematically shirking any labor necessary to man obtains but an ignoble and un...
By Henry David Thoreau
The title wise is, for the most part, falsely applied. How can one be a wise man, if he does not know any better how to live than other men??...
By Henry David Thoreau
The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible and indescribable as the tints of morning or evening. It is a little star-dust cau...
By Henry David Thoreau
The true man of science will know nature better by his finer organization; he will smell, taste, see, hear, feel, better than other men. His w...
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The true poem is not that which the public read. There is always a poem not printed on paper,... in the poet's life. It is what he has become ...
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The truth is, there is money buried everywhere, and you have only to go to work to find it.
By Henry David Thoreau
The very fact that he had no rabble or troop of hirelings about him would alone distinguish him from ordinary heroes. His company was small in...
By Henry David Thoreau
The ways by which you may get money almost without exception lead downward. To have done anything by which you earned money merely is to have ...
By Henry David Thoreau
The ways in which most men get their living, that is, live, are mere makeshifts, and a shirking of the real business of life,—chiefly becaus...
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The poet will prevail to be popular in spite of his faults, and in spite of his beauties too. He will hit the nail on the head, and we shall n...
By Henry David Thoreau
The reading which I love best is the scriptures of the several nations, though it happens that I am better acquainted with those of the Hindoo...
By Henry David Thoreau
The same soil is good for men and for trees. A man's health requires as many acres of meadow to his prospect as his farm does loads of muck.
By Henry David Thoreau
The symbol of perpetual youth, the grass-blade, like a long green ribbon, streams from the sod into the summer, checked indeed by the frost, b...
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The merchants and company have long laughed at transcendentalism, higher laws, etc., crying, 'None of your moonshine,' as if they were anchore...
By Henry David Thoreau
The merely political aspect of the land is never very cheering; men are degraded when considered as the members of a political organization.
By Henry David Thoreau
The mode of founding a college is, commonly, to get up a subscription of dollars and cents, and then, following blindly the principles of a di...
By Henry David Thoreau
The monument of death will outlast the memory of the dead. The Pyramids do not tell the tale which was confided to them; the living fact comme...
By Henry David Thoreau
The newspapers, I perceive, devote some of their columns specially to politics or government without charge; and this, one would say, is all t...
By Henry David Thoreau
The ocean is but a larger lake. At midsummer you may sometimes see a strip of glassy smoothness on it, a few rods in width and many miles long...
By Henry David Thoreau
The only fruit which even much living yields seems to be often only some trivial success,—the ability to do some slight thing better. We mak...
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The opportunities of living are diminished in proportion as what are called the 'means' are increased.
By Henry David Thoreau
The lesson of value which money teaches, which the Author of the Universe has taken so much pains to teach us, we are inclined to skip altoget...
By Henry David Thoreau