the mission of men there seems to be,like so many busy demons,to drive the forest out of the country.
Henry David ThoreauOnly that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.
Henry David ThoreauTags: philosophy
Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
Henry David ThoreauWhy level downward to our dullest perception always, and praise that as common sense? The commonest sense is the sense of men asleep, which they express by snoring.
Henry David ThoreauAn early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
Henry David ThoreauTags: day exercise blessing morning-walk
We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aids, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn, which does not forsake us in our soundest sleep.
Henry David ThoreauLet us... work and wedge our feet downward through the mud and slush of opinion, and prejudice, and tradition, and delusion, and appearance, that alluvion which covers the globe...till we come to a hard bottom and rocks in place, which we can call reality, and say, This is, and no mistake...
Henry David ThoreauEvery man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour.
Henry David ThoreauThis whole earth in which we inhabit is but a point is space.
Henry David ThoreauTags: transcendentalism
Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.
Henry David ThoreauTags: friendship friends
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