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Henry David Thoreau

Nature
Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.
4.9 · 19 votes · 149 reads
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Feelings
Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.
4.9 · 23 votes · 38 reads
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Feelings
Man is the artificer of his own happiness.
4.1 · 64 votes · 114 reads
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Various
Many men go fishing their entire lives without knowing it is not fish they are after.
3.5 · 44 votes · 2 reads
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Time
Many of the phenomena of Winter are suggestive of an inexpressible tenderness and fragile delicacy. We are accustomed to hear this king described as a rude and boisterous tyrant; but with the gentleness of a lover he adorns the tresses of Summer.
4.1 · 28 votes · 2 reads
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Feelings
Men are born to succeed, not to fail.
4.3 · 15 votes · 1 reads
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Society
Men have become the tools of their trade.
4.3 · 57 votes · 132 reads
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Society
Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.
3.8 · 14 votes · 191 reads
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Nature
Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.
3.3 · 34 votes · 9 reads
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Society
Most men would feel insulted if it were proposed to employ them in throwing stones over a wall, and then in throwing them back, merely that they might earn their wages. But many are no more worthily employed now.
4.1 · 24 votes · 66 reads
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Nature
Must be out-of-doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life.
3.6 · 63 votes · 92 reads
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Various
My facts shall be falsehoods to the common sense. I would so state facts that they shall be significant, shall be myths or mythologies. Facts which the mind perceived, thoughts which the body thought - with these I deal.
3.7 · 57 votes · 121 reads
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Countries
Nations! What are nations? Tartars! and Huns! and Chinamen! Like insects they swarm. The historian strives in vain to make them memorable. It is for want of a man that there are so many men. It is individuals that populate the world.
4.3 · 52 votes · 184 reads
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Time
None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm
4.6 · 15 votes · 112 reads
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Thought and Reason
Of what significance are the things you can forget.
3.2 · 49 votes · 107 reads
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Feelings
On the death of a friend, we should consider that the fates through confidence have devolved on us the task of a double living, that we have henceforth to fulfill the promise of our friend's life also, in our own, to the world.
4.9 · 44 votes · 112 reads
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Feelings
One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be stranger to him as he is more familiar to the audience. The longest intimacy could not foretell how he would behave then
4.7 · 36 votes · 42 reads
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Nature
One of the most attractive things about the flowers is their beautiful reserve.
3.3 · 55 votes · 29 reads
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Art and Culture
Only the traveling is good which reveals to me the value of home and enables me to enjoy it better.
4.1 · 57 votes · 113 reads
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Science and Technology
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.
4.6 · 60 votes · 189 reads
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Virtues
Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify, simplify! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb-nail.
3.3 · 55 votes · 76 reads
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Thought and Reason
Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have left an indelible impression, and we are ever and anon reminded of them.
4.3 · 38 votes · 177 reads
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Thought and Reason
Our truest life is when we are in our dreams awake.
5.0 · 56 votes · 94 reads
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Various
Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice.
3.4 · 57 votes · 63 reads
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Feelings
People die of fright and live of confidence.
4.9 · 63 votes · 25 reads
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Virtues
Pity the man who has a character to support -it is worse than a large family - he is silent poor indeed.
3.0 · 38 votes · 10 reads
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Art and Culture
Poetry implies the whole truth, philosophy expresses only a particle of it.
4.8 · 30 votes · 53 reads
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Government and Politics
Politics is the gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel.
3.6 · 32 votes · 60 reads
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Society
Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.
4.1 · 20 votes · 136 reads
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Thought and Reason
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
4.6 · 30 votes · 26 reads
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Art and Culture
Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
3.3 · 37 votes · 168 reads
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Various
Should not every apartment in which man dwells be lofty enough to create some obscurity overhead, where flickering shadows may play at evening about the rafters?
3.7 · 36 votes · 124 reads
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Virtues
Sometimes we are inclined to class those who are once-and-a-half witted with the half-witted, because we appreciate only a third part of their wit.
4.1 · 20 votes · 63 reads
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Thought and Reason
Speech is for the convenience of those who are hard of hearing; but there are many fine things which we cannot say if we have to shout.
4.1 · 14 votes · 66 reads
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Society
Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only. Money is not required to buy one necessary of the soul.
3.5 · 19 votes · 152 reads
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Government and Politics
That government is best which governs least.
3.6 · 6 votes · 7 reads
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Various
That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
4.2 · 17 votes · 189 reads
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Defects
The boy gathers materials for a temple, and then when he is thirty, concludes to build a woodshed.
4.6 · 36 votes · 187 reads
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Various
The broadest and most prevalent error requires the most disinterested virtue to sustain it.
3.7 · 56 votes · 200 reads
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Various
The eye is the jewel of the body.
3.9 · 59 votes · 158 reads
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