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Letter "H" » Henry David Thoreau Quotes
«To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise, and one that will task the reader more than any other exercise which the customs of the day esteem. It requires a training such as the athletes underwent, the steady intention almost of the whole life to this object.»
«The words which express our faith and piety are not definite; yet they are significant and fragrant like frankincense to superior natures.»
«You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.»
«I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself, than this incessant business»
«Give me a wildness whose glance no civilization can endure,-as if we lived on the marrow of koodoos devoured raw»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Civilization
| Keywords:
devoured, marrow, wildness
«How novel and original must be each new mans view of the universe - for though the world is so old - and so many books have been written - each object appears wholly undescribed to our experience - each field of thought wholly unexplored - The whole»
«Wherever a man goes, men will pursue him and paw him with their dirty institutions, and, if they can, constrain him to belong to their desperate odd fellow society»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
constrain, constraining, odd fellow, paw, paws
«There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted»
«We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.»
«Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.»
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