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Thoreau’s contemplative prose invites you to find answers in the quiet of the woods. Fifteen passages capture his reverence for simplicity and the clarity it can bring.

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Our circumstances answer to our expectations and the demand of our natures.

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The universe constantly and obediently answers to our conceptions; whether we travel fast or slow, the track is laid for us.

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We have reason to be grateful for celestial phenomena, for they chiefly answer to the ideal in man.

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Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution.

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For what are the classics but the noblest thoughts of man? They are the only oracles which are not decayed, and there…

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It is equally impossible to forget our Friends, and to make them answer to our ideal. When they say farewell, then indeed…

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But the eyes, though they are no sailors, will never be satisfied with any model, however fashionable, which does not answer all…

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There is considerable danger that a man will be crazy between dinner and supper; but it will not directly answer any good…

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If the tax-gatherer, or any other public officer, asks me, as one has done, "But what shall I do?" my answer is,…

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Between whom there is hearty truth, there is love; and in proportion to our truthfulness and confidence in one another, our lives…

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The universe constantly and obediently answers to our conceptions; whether we travel fast or slow, the track is laid for us. Let…

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No man's thoughts are new, but the style of their expression is the never-failing novelty which cheers and refreshes men. If we…

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There is a certain class of unbelievers who sometimes ask me such questions as, if I think that I can live on…

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A man's social and spiritual discipline must answer to his corporeal. He must lean on a friend who has a hard breast,…

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How we shall earn our bread is a grave question; yet it is a sweet and inviting question. Let us not shirk…

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If ever I did a man any goodof course it was something exceptional and insignificant compared with the good or evil which I am…

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Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.

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“Men say they know many things; But lo! they have taken wings, — The arts and sciences, And a thousand appliances; The wind that…

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I am not afraid of praise, for I have practiced it on myself.

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“All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or back gammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and…

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“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…

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As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may…

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A traveler who looks at things with an impartial eye may see what the oldest inhabitant has not observed.

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In proportion as our inward life fails, we go more constantly and desperately to the post office. You may depend on it, that the…

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I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.

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The still youthful energies of the globe have only to be directed in their proper channel.

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Concord's little arch does not span all our fate, nor is what transpires under it law for the universe.

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The lumberers rarely trouble themselves to put out their fires, such is the dampness of the primitive forest; and this is one cause, no…

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“When he has obtained those things which are necessary to life, there is another alternative than to obtain the superfluities; and that is, to…

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Wealth is measured by the level of experience in all aspects of life

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