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To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise, and one that will task the reader...
What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines or rather indicates his fate.
I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of...
The laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day.
Source: Walden,...
We worship not the Graces, nor the Parcae, but Fashion. She spins and weaves and cuts with full authority. The head...
However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is not...
Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and...
It is difficult to begin without borrowing, but perhaps it is the most generous course thus to permit your fellow-men...
There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted.
Source: Walden,...
The works of the great poets have never yet been read by mankind, for only great poets can read...
At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and...
Should not every apartment in which man dwells be lofty enough to create some obscurity overhead, where flickering...
Men have become the tools of their trade.
Source: Walden, Economy, 1854.
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He who distinguishes the true savor of his food can never be a glutton; he who does not cannot be...
The three-o'-clock in the morning courage, which Bonaparte thought was the rarest.
The earth is not a mere fragment of dead history, stratum upon stratum like the leaves of a book, to be studied by...
I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls.
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved...
I have found it to be the most serious objection to coarse labors long continued, that they compelled me to eat and...
Give me the poverty that enjoys true wealth.
Source: Walden, The Ponds, 1854.
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