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Letter "H" » Henry David Thoreau Quotes
«The way in which men cling to old institutions after the life has departed out of them, and out of themselves, reminds me of those monkeys which cling by their tails -- aye, whose tails contract about the limbs, even the dead limbs, of the forest, and they hang suspended beyond the hunter's reach long after they are dead. It is of no use to argue with such men. They have not an apprehensive intellect, but merely, as it were a prehensile tail.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
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«I have a deep sympathy with war, it so apes the gait and bearing of the soul.»
«I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beech-tree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
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«Nations! What are nations? Tartars! and Huns! and Chinamen! Like insects they swarm. The historian strives in vain to make them memorable. It is for want of a man that there are so many men. It is individuals that populate the world.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
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«Measure your health by your sympathy with morning and Spring. If there is no response in you to the awakening of nature, if the prospect of an early morning walk does not banish sleep, if the warble of the first bluebird does not thrill you, know tha»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Health
| Keywords:
banish, bluebird, bluebirds, prospect, Tha, The Awakening, thrill, warble, warbled, warbling
«Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.»
«All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
backgammon, checker, checkers, gaming, right and wrong, right to vote, slight, tinge, tinged, tingeing
«Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Regret
| Keywords:
afresh, integral, regrets, smother, smothered, smothering, smothers
«The best thing a man can do for his culture when he is rich is to endeavor to carry out those schemes which he entertained when he was poor»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Culture
| Keywords:
carry out, entertained, schemes
«I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.»
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