A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Let the beautiful laws prevail. Let us not weary ourselves by resisting them. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
One of the most attractive things about the flowers is their beautiful reserve. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Beauty is where it is perceived. When I see the sun shinning on the woods across the pond, I think this side… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The object of love expands and grows before us to eternity, until it includes all that is lovely, and we become all… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Whatever beauty we behold, the more it is distant, serene, and cold, the purer and more durable it is. It is better… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Such is beauty ever,-neither here nor there, now nor then,-neither in Rome nor in Athens, but wherever there is a soul to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Beauty and true wealth are always thus cheap and despised. Heaven might be defined as the place which men avoid.” — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Homeliness is almost as great a merit in a book as in a house, if the reader would abide there. It is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
What youth or maiden conspires with the wild luxuriant beauty of Nature? She flourishes most alone, far from the towns where they… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The world, which the Greeks called Beauty, has been made such by being gradually divested of every ornament which was not fitted… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It would be worth the while if in each town there were a committee appointed to see that the beauty of the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
All men are really most attracted by the beauty of plain speech, and they even write in a florid style in imitation… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
How full of the creative genius is the air in which these [snowflakes] are generated! I should hardly admire them more if… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is only necessary to behold the least fact or phenomenon, however familiar, from a point a hair's breadth aside from our… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Men nowhere, east or west, live yet a natural life, round which the vine clings, and which the elm willingly shadows. Man… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As all curves have reference to their centres or foci, so all beauty of character has reference to the soul, and is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There have been heroes for whom this world seemed expressly prepared, as if creation had at last succeeded; whose daily life was… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Most men, it seems to me, do not care for Nature and would sell their share in all her beauty, as long… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
To him whom contemplates a trait of natural beauty, no harm nor despair can come. The doctrines of despair, spiritual or political… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A true poem is distinguished not so much by a felicitous expression, or any thought it suggests, as by the atmosphere which… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We have heard much about the poetry of mathematics, but very little of it has as yet been sung. The ancients had… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
True, there are architects so called in this country, and I have heard of one at least possessed with the idea of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
So behave that the odor of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere, that when we behold or scent… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Nature doth thus kindly heal every wound. By the mediation of a thousand little mosses and fungi, the most unsightly objects become… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is comparatively a faint and reflected beauty that is admired, not an essential and intrinsic one. It is because the old… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As the skies appear to a man, so is his mind. Some see only clouds there; some, prodigies and portents; some rarely… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Decay and disease are often beautiful, like the pearly tear of the shellfish and the hectic glow of consumption. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is necessary not to be Christian to appreciate the beauty and significance of the life of Christ. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape! — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Glances of true beauty can be seen in the faces of those who live in true meekness. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“There is just as much beauty visible to us in the landscape as we are prepared to appreciate, and not a grain… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As in many countries precious metals belong to the crown, so here more precious natural objects of rare beauty should belong to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Inexpressibly beautiful appears the recognition by man of the least natural fact, and the allying his life to it. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It's the beauty within us that makes it possible for us to recognize the beauty around us. The question is not what… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The prosaic man sees things badly, or with the bodily sense; but the poet sees them clad in beauty, with the spiritual… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If ever I did a man any goodof course it was something exceptional and insignificant compared with the good or evil which I am… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
“Men say they know many things; But lo! they have taken wings, — The arts and sciences, And a thousand appliances; The wind that… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
“All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or back gammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
“This spending of the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
A traveler who looks at things with an impartial eye may see what the oldest inhabitant has not observed. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
In proportion as our inward life fails, we go more constantly and desperately to the post office. You may depend on it, that the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
The still youthful energies of the globe have only to be directed in their proper channel. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
Concord's little arch does not span all our fate, nor is what transpires under it law for the universe. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
The lumberers rarely trouble themselves to put out their fires, such is the dampness of the primitive forest; and this is one cause, no… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
“When he has obtained those things which are necessary to life, there is another alternative than to obtain the superfluities; and that is, to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
Wealth is measured by the level of experience in all aspects of life — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
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