Lips Quotes by Henry David Thoreau

8 Lips quotes by Henry David Thoreau

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If you’re curious about how Thoreau, the nature‑loving essayist, thought about lips, this short set offers a few of his observations. It’s a modest collection, but each line carries his characteristic quiet insight.

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Tis now the twenty-third of march, And this warm sun takes out the starch Of winter's pinafore - Methinks The Very pasture…

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A written word is the choicest of relics. It is something at once more intimate with us and more universal than any…

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It is the characteristic of great poems that they will yield of their sense in due proportion to the hasty and the…

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The kindness I have longest remembered has been of this sort, the sort unsaid; so far behind the speaker's lips that almost…

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Many expressions in the New Testament come naturally to the lips of all Protestants, and it furnishes the most pregnant and practical…

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Show me a man who feels bitterly toward John Brown, and let me hear what noble verse he can repeat. He'll be…

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All questions rely on the present for their solution. Time measures nothing but itself. The word that is written may be postponed,but…

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It would be worthy of the age to print together the collected Scriptures or Sacred Writings of the several nations, the Chinese,…

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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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