If the day and night are such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, more starry, more immortal - that is your success.

Henry David Thoreau


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While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them

Henry David Thoreau

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A gun will give you the body, not the bird

Henry David Thoreau


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The tavern will compare favorably with the church.

Henry David Thoreau


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All change is a miracle to contemplate, but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant.

Henry David Thoreau


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Hard and steady and engrossing labor with the hands, especially out of doors, is invaluable to the literary man and serves him directly.

Henry David Thoreau


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I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.

Henry David Thoreau

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The savage in man is never quite eradicated.

Henry David Thoreau


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The sail, the play of its pulse so like our own lives: so thin and yet so full of life, so noiseless when it labors hardest, so noisy and impatient when least effective.

Henry David Thoreau

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The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in a single, solitary, even humble individual. For it is within the soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost.

Henry David Thoreau


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