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My Friend is not of some other race or family of men, but flesh of my flesh, bone of my bone. He is my real brother.
By Henry David Thoreau
Nature herself has not provided the most graceful end for her creatures. What becomes of all these birds that people the air and forest for ou...
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Nature is a greater and more perfect art, the art of God; though, referred to herself, she is genius; and there is a similarity between her op...
By Henry David Thoreau
Near the lake, which we were approaching with as much expectation as if it had been a university,—for it is not often that the stream of our...
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Nearest to all things is that power which fashions their being. Next to us the grandest laws are constantly being executed. Next to us is not ...
By Henry David Thoreau
Measure your health by your sympathy with morning and spring. If there is no response in you to the awakening of nature—if the prospect of a...
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Men and boys are learning all kinds of trades but how to make men of themselves. They learn to make houses; but they are not so well housed, t...
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Merely to come into the world the heir of a fortune is not to be born, but to be still-born, rather. To be supported by the charity of friends...
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Methinks a certain polygamy with its troubles is the fate of almost all men. They are married to two wives: their genius (a celestial muse), a...
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Live free, child of the mist,—and with respect to knowledge we are all children of the mist.
By Henry David Thoreau
Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poor-house.
By Henry David Thoreau
Man is an animal who more than any other can adapt himself to all climates and circumstances.
By Henry David Thoreau
Men commonly couple with their idea of marriage a slight degree at least of sensuality; but every lover, the world over, believes in its incon...
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Life consists with wildness. The most alive is the wildest. Not yet subdued to man, its presence refreshes him.
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Life is so short that it is not wise to take roundabout ways, nor can we spend much time in waiting.... We have not got half-way to dawn yet.
By Henry David Thoreau
Joe now proceeded to skin the moose with a pocket-knife, while I looked on; and a tragical business it was,—to see that still warm and palpi...
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Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature, and not be thrown off the track by every nutshell and mosquito's wing that falls on the rails.
By Henry David Thoreau
It is by a mathematical point only that we are wise, as the sailor or the fugitive slave keeps the polestar in his eye; but that is sufficient...
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It is pleasant to walk over the beds of these fresh, crisp, and rustling leaves. How beautifully they go to their graves! how gently lay thems...
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It is remarkable how few events or crises there are in our histories, how little exercised we have been in our minds, how few experiences we h...
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It is remarkable that the dead lie everywhere under stones.... Why should the monument be so much more enduring than the fame which it is desi...
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It is remarkable that there is little or nothing to be remembered written on the subject of getting a living; how to make getting a living not...
By Henry David Thoreau
It is said that the British Empire is very large and respectable, and that the United States are a first-rate power. We do not believe that a ...
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It is strange that they will make ado when a man's body is buried, but not when he thus really and tragically dies, or seems to die.
By Henry David Thoreau
It required some rudeness to disturb with our boat the mirror-like surface of the water, in which every twig and blade of grass was so faithfu...
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It was inspiriting to hear the regular dip of the paddles, as if they were our fins or flippers, and to realize that we were at length fairly ...
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It will be seen that we contemplate a time when man's will shall be law to the physical world, and he shall no longer be deterred by such abst...
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It would surpass the powers of a well man nowadays to take up his bed and walk, and I should certainly advise a sick one to lay down his bed a...
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