Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau: Some circumstantial evidence...

Henry David Thoreau: Some circumstantial evidence...

Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.

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Henry David Thoreau: Silence is the...

Henry David Thoreau: Silence is the...

Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin,...

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Henry David Thoreau: A perfectly healthy...

Henry David Thoreau: A perfectly healthy...

A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rare. For the most part we miss the hue and fragrance of the...

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Henry David Thoreau: He is the...

Henry David Thoreau: He is the...

He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest...

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Henry David Thoreau: The mass never...

Henry David Thoreau: The mass never...

The mass never comes up to the standard of its best member, but on the contrary degrades itself to a level with the...

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Henry David Thoreau: I was born...

Henry David Thoreau: I was born...

I was born upon thy bank, river,
My blood flows in thy stream,
And thou meanderest forever
At the bottom of...

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Henry David Thoreau: The youth gets...

Henry David Thoreau: The youth gets...

The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth,...

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Henry David Thoreau: The Artist is...

Henry David Thoreau: The Artist is...

The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature....

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Henry David Thoreau: The most attractive...

Henry David Thoreau: The most attractive...

The most attractive sentences are not perhaps the wisest, but the surest and soundest.

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Henry David Thoreau: I am sorry...

Henry David Thoreau: I am sorry...

I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is...

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Henry David Thoreau: What does education...

Henry David Thoreau: What does education...

What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.

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Henry David Thoreau: Whatever sentence will...

Henry David Thoreau: Whatever sentence will...

Whatever sentence will bear to be read twice, we may be sure was thought twice.

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Henry David Thoreau: We are paid...

Henry David Thoreau: We are paid...

We are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspected.

Source: A Week on the...

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Henry David Thoreau: Is not disease...

Henry David Thoreau: Is not disease...

Is not disease the rule of existence? There is not a lily pad floating on the river but has been riddled by insects....

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Henry David Thoreau: The way in...

Henry David Thoreau: The way in...

The way in which men cling to old institutions after the life has departed out of them, and out of themselves, reminds...

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Henry David Thoreau: We shall see...

Henry David Thoreau: We shall see...

We shall see but little way if we require to understand what we see. How few things can a man measure with the tape of...

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Henry David Thoreau: What is peculiar...

Henry David Thoreau: What is peculiar...

What is peculiar in the life of a man consists not in his obedience, but his opposition, to his instincts. In one...

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Henry David Thoreau: Let us not...

Henry David Thoreau: Let us not...

Let us not underrate the value of a fact; it will one day flower into a truth.

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Henry David Thoreau: To regret deeply...

Henry David Thoreau: To regret deeply...

To regret deeply is to live afresh.

Source: Journals, 1906, entry for 13 Nov...

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Henry David Thoreau: When I hear...

Henry David Thoreau: When I hear...

When I hear the hypercritical quarreling about grammar and style, the position of the particles, etc., etc., . . . I...

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