Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice. Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
Henry David ThoreauTag: walden
Most men, even in this comparatively free country, through mere ignorance and mistake, are so occupied with the factitious cares and superfluously coarse labors of life that its finer fruits cannot be plucked by them.
Henry David ThoreauThis was that Earth of which we have heard, made out of Chaos and Old Night.
Henry David ThoreauA single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener. So our prospects brighten on the influx of better thoughts. We should be blessed if we lived in the present always, and took advantage of every accident that befell us.
Henry David ThoreauThe only sin in the world is ignorance.
Henry David ThoreauNowadays almost all man's improvements, so called, as the building of houses, and the cutting down of the forest and of all large trees, simply deform the landscape, and make it more tame and cheap... and some worldly miser with a surveyor looking after his bounds, while heaven had taken place around him, and he did not see the angles going to and fro, but was looking for an old post-hole in the midst of paradise. I looked again, and saw him standing in the middle of a boggy, stygian, fen, surrounded by devils, and he had found his bounds without a doubt, three little stones, where a stake had been driven, and looking nearer, I saw that the prince of Darkness was his surveyor.
Henry David ThoreauThe mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
Henry David ThoreauThere is no beginning too small.
Henry David ThoreauLive your beliefs and you can turn the world around.
Henry David ThoreauAN ARTIST IS FIRST AN AMATEUR
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