Machines Quotes by Henry David Thoreau

8 Machines quotes by Henry David Thoreau

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Thoreau’s nine lines on the mechanical world feel like a quiet protest from the woods. Though brief, they capture his timeless tension between nature and industry.

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The mass of men serve the state thus, not as men mainly, but as machines, with their bodies.

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If the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government, let it go, let it go: perchance it…

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Let your life be a counter friction to stop the machine.

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Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the machine. What I have to do is to see, at any rate, that…

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Every nail driven should be as another rivet in the machine of the universe, you carrying on the work.

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f the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government, let it go, let it go; perchance it…

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Actually, the laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day; he cannot afford to sustain the manliest relations…

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How little do the most wonderful inventions of modern times detain us. They insult nature. Every machine, or particular application, seems a…

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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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