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Henry David Thoreau
The universe is...
The universe is wider than our views of it.
Source: Walden, Conclusion, 1854.
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Sometimes we are...
Sometimes we are inclined to class those who are once-and-a-half witted with the half-witted, because we appreciate...
The lawyer's truth...
The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.
All voting is...
All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and...
Superfluous wealth can...
Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only. Money is not required to buy one necessary of the...
How could youths...
How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?
The purity men...
The purity men love is like the mists which envelope the earth, and not like the azure ether...
It is not...
It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?
If we were...
If we were left solely to the wordy wit of legislators in Congress for our guidance, uncorrected by the seasonal...
If I knew...
If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run...
I have lived...
I have lived some thirty years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest...
Why level downward...
Why level downward to our dullest perception always, and praise that as common sense? The commonest sense is the sense...
If you have...
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the...
The broadest and...
The broadest and most prevalent error requires the most disinterested virtue to sustain...
If I seem...
If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for...
There are now-a-days...
There are now-a-days professors of philosophy but not philosophers.
Source: Walden,...
A stereotyped but...
A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of...
The sun is...
The sun is but a morning star.
Source: Walden, Conclusion, 1854.
-- Henry David...
The law will...
The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free.
Source:...
It is an...
It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their...