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My facts shall be falsehoods to the common sense. I would so state facts that they shall be significant, shall be...
Being is the great explainer.
Source: Journals, entry 26 Feb 1841.
-- Henry...
To watch this crystal globe just sent from heaven to associate with me. While these clouds and this somber drizzling...
As to conforming outwardly, and living your own life inwardly, I have not a very high opinion of that...
If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it...
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...
I fear chiefly lest my expression may not be extravagant enough, may not wander far enough beyond the narrow limit of...
The stars are the apexes of what triangles!
Source: Journals, 1906, entry for 5 Oct...
Decay and disease are often beautiful, like the pearly tear of the shellfish and the hectic glow of...
The rich man. . . is always sold to the institution which makes him rich. Absolutely speaking, the more money, the...
The government of the world I live in was not framed, like that of Britain, in after-dinner conversations over the...
It is easier to sail many thousand miles through cold and storm and cannibals, in a government ship, with five hundred...
Writing may be either the record of a deed or a deed. It is nobler when it is a deed.
That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
Source: Journals, entry...
There are nine hundred and ninety-nine patrons of virtue to one virtuous man.
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...
Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of...
After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.
Source: On the Duty of Civil...
I do not know but thoughts written down thus in a journal might be printed in the same form with greater advantage...
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a...