Henry David Thoreau Quotes - Page 81

• I would not have every man nor every part of a man cultivated, any more than I would have every acre of earth cultivated: part will be tillage, but the greater part will be meadow and forest, not only serving an immediate use, but preparing a mould against a distant future, by the annual decay of the vegetation which it supports.

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  Men, Support, Society

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walking: Top Essays”, p.16, 谷月社

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• In the meanest are all the materials of manhood, only they are not rightly disposed.

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  Men, Materials, Manhood

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Selected Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• It is too late to be studying Hebrew; it is more important to understand even the slang of today.

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  Important, Too Late, Literature

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Selected Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.167, Simon and Schuster

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• Somehow strangely the vice of men gets well represented and protected but their virtue has none to plead its cause - nor any charter of immunities and rights.

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  Get Well, Men, Rights

  Henry David Thoreau, David Gross (2007). “The Price of Freedom: Political Philosophy from Thoreau's Journals”, p.30, David M Gross

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• The study of geometry is a petty and idle exercise of the mind, if it is applied to no larger system than the starry one. Mathematics should be mixed not only with physics but with ethics; that is mixed mathematics.

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  Exercise, Science, Mind

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “The Illustrated "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers"”, p.362, Princeton University Press

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• The ocean is a wilderness reaching round the globe, wilder than a Bengal jungle, and fuller of monsters, washing the very wharves of our cities and the gardens of our sea-side residences.

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  Ocean, Garden, Sea

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.826, Delphi Classics

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• The highest law gives a thing to him who can use it.

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  Law, Giving, Use

  Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.24, Heron Dance Press

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• Shams and delusions are esteemed for soundest truths, while reality is fabulous. If men would steadily observe realities only, and not allow themselves to be deluded, life ... would be like a fairy tale and the Arabian Nights' Entertainments.

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  Night, Reality, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.62, Cosimo, Inc.

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• But men labor under a mistake. The better part of the man is soon plowed into the soil for compost.

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  Wisdom, Mistake, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.11

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• Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly.

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  Wisdom, Treats, Sensitivity

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.12

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• The mission of men there seems to be, like so many busy demons, to drive the forest all out of the country, from every solitary beaver swamp and mountain-side, as soon as possible.

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  Country, Men, Mountain

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “The Maine Woods”, p.5, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Blessed are they who never read a newspaper, for they shall see Nature, and through her, God.

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  Blessed, Environmental, Newspapers

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.288, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Two or three hours' walking will carry me to as strange a country as I expect ever to see. A single farmhouse which I had not seen before is sometimes as good as the dominions of the King of Dahomey.

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  Country, Kings, Two

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walking: Top Essays”, p.3, 谷月社

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• Of what use the friendliest disposition even, if there are no hours given to Friendship, if it is forever postponed to unimportant duties and relations? Friendship first, Friendship last.

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  Forever, Use, Lasts

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.110, Penguin

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• Mythology is the crop which the Old World bore before its soil was exhausted.

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  World, Soil, Exhausted

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walking: Top Essays”, p.14, 谷月社

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• Sphere Music - Some sounds seem to reverberate along the plain, and then settle to earth again like dust; such are Noise, Discord, Jargon. But such only as spring heavenward, and I may catch from steeples and hilltops in their upward course, which are the more refined parts of the former, are the true sphere music - pure, unmixed music - in which no wail mingles.

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  Spring, Dust, Sound

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.6, Courier Corporation

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• The vessel, though her masts be firm,Beneath her copper bears a worm.

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  Bears, Worms, Copper

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.148, Penguin

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• You ask particularly after my health. I suppose that I have not many months to live; but, of course, I know nothing about it. I may add that I am enjoying existence as much as ever, and regret nothing.

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  Regret, Add, May

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1902, Delphi Classics

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• The Indian...stands free and unconstrained in Nature, is her inhabitant and not her guest, and wears her easily and gracefully. But the civilized man has the habits of the house. His house is a prison.

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  Men, House, Guests

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Quotable Thoreau: An A to Z Glossary of Inspiring Quotations from Henry David Thoreau”, p.48, BookBaby

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• The traveler must be born again on the road, and earn a passport from the elements.

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  Elements, Born Again, Traveler

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.232, Delphi Classics

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• Who hears the fishes when they cry?

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  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

  Henry David Thoreau (1873). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.44

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• Such a man has some right to fish, and I love to see nature carried out in him.

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  Men, Lakes, Sea

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.309, Penguin

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• We waded so gently and reverently, or we pulled together so smoothly, that the fishes of thought were not scared from the stream, nor feared any angler on the bank, but came and went grandly, like the clouds which came and went on the western sky, and the mother-o'-pearl flocks which sometimes form and dissolve there.

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  Mother, Sea, Fishing

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walden (Diversion Classics)”, p.258, Diversion Books

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• I confess I was surprised to find that so many men spent their whole day, ay, their whole lives almost, a-fishing. It is remarkable what a serious business men make of getting their dinners, and how universally shiftlessness and a groveling taste take refuge in a merely ant-like industry. Better go without your dinner, I thought, than be thus everlastingly fishing for it like a cormorant. Of course, viewed from the shore, our pursuits in the country appear not a whit less frivolous.

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  Country, Men, Lakes

  Henry David Thoreau (2008). “Cape Cod: Illustrated Edition of the American Classic”, p.165, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Compliments and flattery oftenest excite my contempt by the pretension they imply; for who is he that assumes to flatter me? To compliment often implies an assumption of superiority in the complimenter. It is, in fact, a subtle detraction.

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  Facts, Assuming, Assumption

  Henry David Thoreau (1929). “Early spring in Massachusetts and Summer”

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