I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to the other
Henry David ThoreauWe know but few man, a great many coats and breeches.
Henry David ThoreauTag: thoreau fashion-quotes
Will you be a reader, a student merely, or a seer? Read your fate, see what is before you, and walk on into futurity.
Henry David ThoreauWe must look for a long time before we can see.
Henry David ThoreauWhat avails it that another loves you, if he does not understand you? Such love is a curse.
Henry David ThoreauTo have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.
Henry David ThoreauI am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual. It is surprising how contented one can be with nothing definite - only a sense of existence. Well, anything for variety. I am ready to try this for the next ten thousand years, and exhaust it. How sweet to think of! my extremities well charred, and my intellectual part too, so that there is no danger of worm or rot for a long while. My breath is sweet to me. O how I laugh when I think of my vague indefinite riches. No run on my bank can drain it, for my wealth is not possession but enjoyment.
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Age is no better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it has lost.
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The heroic books, even if printed in the character of our mother tongue, will always be in a language dead to degenerate times; and we must laboriously seek the meaning of each word and line, conjecturing a larger sense than common use permits out of what wisdom and valor and generosity we have.
Henry David ThoreauTag: literature
It is not all books that are as dull as their readers. There are probably words addressed to our condition exactly, which, if we could really hear and understand, would be more salutary than the morning or the spring to our lives, and possibly put a new aspect on the face of things for us. How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book. The book exists for us perchance which will explain our miracles and reveal new ones. The at present unutterable things we may find somewhere uttered. These same questions that disturb and puzzle and confound us have in their turn occurred to all the wise men; not one has been omitted; and each has answered them, according to his ability, by his words and his life.
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