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It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American philosopher and writer
“Economy,” Walden (1854)

Added on 31-Mar-09 | Last updated 31-Mar-09
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There is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself, than this incessant business.

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American philosopher and writer
“Life without Principle,” Atlantic (Oct 1863)

Added on 20-May-08 | Last updated 20-May-08
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We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American philosopher and writer
(Attributed)

Added on 1-Feb-04 | Last updated 1-Feb-04
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In the long run men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high.

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American philosopher and writer
(Attributed)

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There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American philosopher and writer
(Attributed)

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The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American philosopher and writer
(Attributed)

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Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American philosopher and writer
(Attributed)

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Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American philosopher and writer
(Attributed)

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For every ten people who are clipping at the branches of evil, you’re lucky to find one who’s hacking at the roots.

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American philosopher and writer
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True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American philosopher and writer
(Attributed)

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If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American philosopher and writer
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The fate of the country … does not depend on what kind of paper you drop into the ballot box once a year, but on what kind of man you drop from your chamber into the street every day.

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American philosopher and writer
(Attributed)

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Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American philosopher and writer
(Attributed)

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I did not know that we had ever quarrelled.

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American philosopher and writer
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On being urged to make his peace with God.

Added on 11-Jul-08 | Last updated 11-Jul-08
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We should be men first, and subjects afterward.

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American philosopher and writer
On the Duty of Civil Disobedience (1849)

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Only that day dawns to which we are awake.

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American philosopher and writer
Walden, “Conclusion” (1854)

Added on 26-Aug-09 | Last updated 26-Aug-09
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Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American philosopher and writer
Walden, “Economy” (1854)

Added on 10-Apr-09 | Last updated 10-Apr-09
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Drive a nail home and clinch it so faithfully that you can wake up in the night and think of your work with satisfaction, — a work at which you would not be ashamed to invoke the Muse.

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American philosopher and writer
Walden, ch. 18 (1854)

Added on 6-Mar-08 | Last updated 6-Mar-08
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Go where we will, we discover infinite change in particulars only, not in generals.

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American philosopher and writer
Walden,”Conclusion” (1854)

Added on 4-Feb-09 | Last updated 4-Feb-09
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In enthusiasm we undulate to the divine spiritus — as the lake to the wind.

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American philosopher and writer
Journal (16 Dec 1840)

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The cost of a thing … is the amount of life it requires to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American philosopher and writer
Journal (1845, undated)

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Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American philosopher and writer
Journal (23 Aug 1853)

Added on 11-Jun-09 | Last updated 11-Jun-09
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There is no remedy for love but to love more.

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American philosopher and writer
Journal (25 Jul 1839)

Added on 3-Sep-09 | Last updated 3-Sep-09
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In my experience, at least of late years, all that depresses a man’s spirits is the sense of remissness — duties neglected, unfaithfulness — or shamming, impurity, falsehood, selfishness, inhumanity, and the like.

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American philosopher and writer
Journal (28 Aug 1854)

Added on 14-Sep-09 | Last updated 14-Sep-09
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Nothing is so much to be feared as fear.

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American philosopher and writer
Journal (7 Sep 1851)

Added on 12-Sep-07 | Last updated 12-Sep-07
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