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So easy is it, though many housekeepers doubt it, to establish new and better customs in the place of the old.

By Henry David Thoreau
Some men are judges, these August days, sitting on benches, even till the court rises; they sit judging there honorably, between the seasons a...

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Sometimes we sailed as gently and steadily as the clouds overhead, watching the receding shores and the motions of our sail; the play of its p...

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Soon after John's death I listened to a music-box, and if, at any time, that event had seemed inconsistent with the beauty and harmony of the ...

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Scholars are wont to sell their birthright for a mess of learning.

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So near along life's stream are the fountains of innocence and youth making fertile its sandy margin; and the voyageur will do well to repleni...

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So soon did we, wayfarers, begin to learn that man's life is rounded with the same few facts, the same simple relations everywhere, and it is ...

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Politics are ... but as the cigar-smoke of a man.

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Rabelais, for instance, is intolerable; one chapter is better than a volume,—it may be sport to him, but it is death to us. A mere humorist,...

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Our foes are in our midst and all about us. There is hardly a house but is divided against itself, for our foe is the all but universal wooden...

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Perhaps our own woods and fields,—in the best wooded towns, where we need not quarrel about the huckleberries,—with the primitive swamps s...

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Politics is but a narrow field.

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Politics is, as it were, the gizzard of society, full of grit and gravel, and the two political parties are its two opposite halves,—sometim...

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One may almost doubt if the wisest man has learned anything of absolute value by living.

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One may be drunk with love without being any nearer to finding his mate.

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One who pressed forward incessantly and never rested from his labors, who grew fast and made infinite demands on life, would always find himse...

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Our Indian said that he was a doctor, and could tell me some medicinal use for every plant I could show him ... proving himself as good as his...

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Our panaceas cure but few ails, our general hospitals are private and exclusive. We must set up another Hygeia than is now worshiped. Do not t...

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Our whole life is startingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice.

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Of all the characters I have known, perhaps Walden wears best, and best preserves its purity. Many men have been likened to it, but few deserv...

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Of all the men who were said to be my contemporaries, it seemed to me that John Brown was the only one who had not died.

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On every hand we observe a truly wise practice, in education, in morals, and in the arts of life, the embodied wisdom of many an ancient philo...

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On the whole, it was not so impressive a scene as I might have expected. If I had found one body cast upon the beach in some lonely place, it ...

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Once also it was my business to go in search of the relics of a human body, mangled by sharks, which had just been cast up, a week after a wre...

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Now he saw by the heap of shavings still fresh at his feet, that, for him and for his work, the former lapse of time had been an illusion.

By Henry David Thoreau
My life more civil is and free Than any civil polity....

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No method nor discipline can supersede the necessity of being forever on the alert. What is a course of history or philosophy, or poetry, no m...

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Men nowhere, east or west, live yet a natural life, round which the vine clings, and which the elm willingly shadows. Man would desecrate it b...

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Men will tell you sometimes that 'money's hard.' That shows it was not made to eat, I say.... Some of those who sank with the steamer the othe...

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Much more is adoing than Congress wots of.

By Henry David Thoreau