Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau: My facts shall...

Henry David Thoreau: My facts shall...

My facts shall be falsehoods to the common sense. I would so state facts that they shall be significant, shall be...

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Henry David Thoreau: Being is the...

Henry David Thoreau: Being is the...

Being is the great explainer.

Source: Journals, entry 26 Feb 1841.
-- Henry...

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Henry David Thoreau: To watch this...

Henry David Thoreau: To watch this...

To watch this crystal globe just sent from heaven to associate with me. While these clouds and this somber drizzling...

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Henry David Thoreau: As to conforming...

Henry David Thoreau: As to conforming...

As to conforming outwardly, and living your own life inwardly, I have not a very high opinion of that...

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Henry David Thoreau: If a thousand...

Henry David Thoreau: If a thousand...

If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it...

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Henry David Thoreau: I did not...

Henry David Thoreau: I did not...

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I...

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Henry David Thoreau: I fear chiefly...

Henry David Thoreau: I fear chiefly...

I fear chiefly lest my expression may not be extravagant enough, may not wander far enough beyond the narrow limit of...

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Henry David Thoreau: The stars are...

Henry David Thoreau: The stars are...

The stars are the apexes of what triangles!

Source: Journals, 1906, entry for 5 Oct...

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Henry David Thoreau: Decay and disease...

Henry David Thoreau: Decay and disease...

Decay and disease are often beautiful, like the pearly tear of the shellfish and the hectic glow of...

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Henry David Thoreau: The rich man....

Henry David Thoreau: The rich man....

The rich man. . . is always sold to the institution which makes him rich. Absolutely speaking, the more money, the...

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Henry David Thoreau: The government of...

Henry David Thoreau: The government of...

The government of the world I live in was not framed, like that of Britain, in after-dinner conversations over the...

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Henry David Thoreau: It is easier...

Henry David Thoreau: It is easier...

It is easier to sail many thousand miles through cold and storm and cannibals, in a government ship, with five hundred...

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Henry David Thoreau: Writing may be...

Henry David Thoreau: Writing may be...

Writing may be either the record of a deed or a deed. It is nobler when it is a deed.

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Henry David Thoreau: That man is...

Henry David Thoreau: That man is...

That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.

Source: Journals, entry...

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Henry David Thoreau: There are nine...

Henry David Thoreau: There are nine...

There are nine hundred and ninety-nine patrons of virtue to one virtuous man.

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Henry David Thoreau: The light which...

Henry David Thoreau: The light which...

The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to...

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Henry David Thoreau: Nay, be a...

Henry David Thoreau: Nay, be a...

Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of...

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Henry David Thoreau: After the first...

Henry David Thoreau: After the first...

After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.

Source: On the Duty of Civil...

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Henry David Thoreau: I do not...

Henry David Thoreau: I do not...

I do not know but thoughts written down thus in a journal might be printed in the same form with greater advantage...

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Henry David Thoreau: Under a government...

Henry David Thoreau: Under a government...

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a...

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