Best Henry David Thoreau Words
- I do not value any view of the universe into which man and the institutions of man enter very largely and absorb much of the… Absorb
- Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk. Animal
- The Heavens are as deep as our aspirations are high. Angel
- It would be better if there were but one inhabitant to a square mile, as where I live. Better
- I thrive best on solitude. If I have had a companion only one day in a week, unless it were one or two I could… Affected
- By my intimacy with nature I find myself withdrawn from man. My interest in the sun and the moon, in the morning and the evening,… Compels
- Ah! I need solitude. I have come forth to this hill at sunset to see the forms of the mountains in the horizon - to… Ah
- I have lately got back to that glorious society called Solitude. Called
- "Hear! hear!" screamed the jay from a neighboring tree, where I had heard a tittering for some time, "winter has a concentrated and nutty kernel,… Concentrated
- The Slothful do not have the time to become virtuous or despicable. Become Virtuous
- Asked whether or not he believed in an afterlife, Thoreau quipped, "One world at a time." Afterlife
- Do not seek so anxiously to be developed, to subject yourself to many influences to be played on; it is all dissipation. Humility like darkness… All
- With all your science can you tell me how it is, and when it is, that light comes into the soul? All
- I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite… Dear
- Sweep away the clutter of things that complicate our lives. Action
- The study of geometry is a petty and idle exercise of the mind, if it is applied to no larger system than the starry one.… Applied
- How novel and original must be each new mans view of the universe - for though the world is so old - and so many… America
- Somehow strangely the vice of men gets well represented and protected but their virtue has none to plead its cause - nor any charter of… Any
- If I deny the authority of the State when it presents my tax bill, it will soon take and waste all my property, and so… All
- How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time? All
- What are the libraries of science but files of newspapers? Files
- Even the facts of science may dust the mind by their dryness, unless they are ... rendered fertile by the dews of fresh and living… Details
- Much is said about the progress of science in these centuries. I should say that the useful results of science had accumulated, but that there… Accumulated
- Fishing has been styled 'a contemplative man's recreation,' ... and science is only a more contemplative man's recreation. Been
- The fact which interests us most is the life of the naturalist. The purest science is still biographical. Nothing will dignify and elevate science while… Biographical
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