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Letter "H" » Henry David Thoreau Quotes
«Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.»
«Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.»
«What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.»
«The only wealth is life.»
«We cannot well do without our sins; they are the highway of our virtue.»
«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.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
housekeeping, leisure time, margin, The Cars
«Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought. Every man is the lord of a realm beside which the earthly empire of the Czar is but a petty state, a hummock left by the ice.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
channels, Columbus, continents, czar, Empire of, Empire State, hummock, petty, The Empire State
«Why level downward to our dullest perception always, and praise that as common sense? The commonest sense is the sense of men asleep, which they express by snoring.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
downward, dullest, snore, snores, snoring
«We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light.»
«Speech is for the convenience of those who are hard of hearing; but there are many fine things which we cannot say if we have to shout.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
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Speech
| Keywords:
hard of hearing, shout
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