Henry David Thoreau
Concord, Massachusetts
Quotes
11 November 2014
To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour.
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11 November 2014
As for the graces of expression, a great thought is never found in a mean dress; but ... the nine Muses and the three Graces will have conspired to clothe it in fit phrase. Its education has always been liberal, and its implied wit can endow a college.
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11 November 2014
My actual life is a fact, in view of which I have no occasion to congratulate myself; but for my faith and aspiration I have respect. It is from these that I speak.
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11 November 2014
His genius can cover all the land with gorgeous palaces, but the reader does not abide in them, but pitches his tent rather in the desert and on the mountain-peak.
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11 November 2014
If Columbus was the first to discover the islands, Americus Vespucius and Cabot, and the Puritans, and we their descendants, have discovered only the shores of America.
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11 November 2014
Almost any noble verse may be read, either as his elegy or eulogy, or be made the text of an oration on him.
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11 November 2014
An unclean person is universally a slothful one.
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11 November 2014
It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always. The conscience really does not, and ought not to monopolize the whole of our lives, any more than the heart or the head. It is as liable to disease as any other part.
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11 November 2014
Turn the old; return to them.
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11 November 2014
Gardening is civil and social, but it wants the vigor and freedom of the forest and the outlaw.
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