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Henry David Thoreau

(1817-1862, American essayist, poet, naturalist)

Leisure
A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars. What are threescore years and ten hurriedly and coarsely lived to moments of divine leisure in which your life is coincident with the life of the universe?
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Friends and Friendship
A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.
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Friends and Friendship
A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.
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Wealth
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
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Risks
A man sits as many risks as he runs.
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Thoughts and Thinking
A man thinks as well through his legs and arms as his brain.
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Minorities
A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority; it is not even a minority then; but it is irresistible when it clogs by its whole weight.
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Names
A name pronounced is the recognition of the individual to whom it belongs. He who can pronounce my name aright, he can call me, and is entitled to my love and service.
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Writing and Writers
A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rare. For the most part we miss the hue and fragrance of the thought; as if we could be satisfied with the dews of the morning or evening without their colors, or the heavens without their azure.
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Humanity
A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind.
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Rules
Absolutely speaking, Do unto others as you would that they should do unto you is by no means a golden rule, but the best of current silver. An honest man would have but little occasion for it. It is golden not to have any rule at all in such a case.
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Battles
After all the field of battle possesses many advantages over the drawing-room. There at least is no room for pretension or excessive ceremony, no shaking of hands or rubbing of noses, which make one doubt your sincerity, but hearty as well as hard hand-play. It at least exhibits one of the faces of humanity, the former only a mask.
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Sin
After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.
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Age and Aging
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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Advice
Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.
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Worth
All good things are cheap: all bad are very dear.
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Votes and Voting
All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong.
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Money
Almost any man knows how to earn money, but not one in a million knows how to spend it.
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Fools and Foolishness
Any fool can make a rule, and every fool will mind it.
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Deeds and Good Deeds
As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.
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Writing and Writers
As for style of writing, if one has anything to say, it drops from him simply and directly, as a stone falls to the ground.
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Age and Aging
As for the pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many men could be found degraded enough to spend their lives constructing a tomb for some ambitious booby, whom it would have been wiser and manlier to have drowned in the Nile, and then given his body to the dogs.
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Conformity
As to conforming outwardly, and living your own life inwardly, I have not a very high opinion of that course.
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Thoughts and Thinking
Associate reverently, as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts.
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Honesty
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
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Behavior
Behave so the aroma of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere.
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Existence
Being is the great explainer.
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Truth
Between whom there is hearty truth, there is love.
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Caution
Beware of all enterprises that require a new set of clothes.
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Books and Reading
Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
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Books and Reading
Books, not which afford us a cowering enjoyment, but in which each thought is of unusual daring; such as an idle man cannot read, and a timid one would not be entertained by, which even make us dangerous to existing institution -- such call I good books.
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Farmers and Farming
By avarice and selfishness, and a groveling habit (from which none of us is free) of chiefly regarding the soil as property, or the means of acquiring property, the landscape is deformed. Husbandry is degraded with us and the farmer leads the meanest of lives. He knows Nature but (only) as a robber.
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Cities and City Life
City life is millions of people being lonesome together.
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Liberty
Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
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Distrust
Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
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Passion
Do what you love. Know you own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.
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Morality
Don't be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.
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Thoughts and Thinking
Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg by the side of which more will be laid.
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Fame
Even the best things are not equal to their fame.
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Conventionality
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.
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Body
Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships, after a style purely his own, nor can he get off by hammering marble instead. We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones.
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Experience
Experience is in the fingers and head. The heart is inexperienced.
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Self-Knowledge
Explore thyself. Herein are demanded the eye and the nerve.
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Doubt
Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.
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Farmers and Farming
Farmers are respectable and interesting to me in proportion as they are poor.
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Bible
For eighteen hundred years, though perchance I have no right to say it, the New Testament has been written; yet where is the legislator who has wisdom and practical talent enough to avail himself of the light which it sheds on the science of legislation?
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Duty
For many years I was a self-appointed inspector of snowstorms and rainstorms and did my duty faithfully, though I never received payment for it.
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Books: Classics
For what are the classics but the noblest thoughts of man? They are the only oracles which are not decayed, and there are such answers to the most modern inquiry in them as Delphi and Dodona never gave. We might as well omit to study Nature because she is old.
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Poverty and the Poor
Give me the poverty that enjoys true wealth.
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Beauty
Glances of true beauty can be seen in the faces of those who live in true meekness.
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