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Called Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- I have lately got back to that glorious society called Solitude.
- Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable but positive hindrances to our progress. Our life…
- The generative energy, which, when we are loose, dissipates and makes us unclean, when we are continent invigorates and inspires us. Chastity is the flowering…
- True, there are architects so called in this country, and I have heard of one at least possessed with the idea of making architectural ornaments…
- That grand old poem called Winter
- What is commonly called friendship is only a little more honor among rogues.
- The man who does not betake himself at once and desperately to sawing is called a loafer, though he may be knocking at the doors…
- The best books are not read even by those who are called good readers. What does our Concord culture amount to? There is in this…
- I see young men, my townsmen, whose misfortune it is to have inherited farms, houses, barns, cattle, and farming tools; for these are more easily…
- Our science, so called, is always more barren and mixed with error than our sympathies.
- I walk out into a nature such as the old prophets and poets Menu, Moses, Homer, Chaucer, walked in. You may name it America, but…
- A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind.
- A man's ignorance sometimes is not only useful, but beautiful-while his knowledge, so called, is oftentimes worse than useless, besides being ugly.
- Nowadays almost all man's improvements, so called, as the building of houses and the cutting down of the forest and of all large trees, simply…
- The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
- Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
- To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.
- What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.
- Every man is the builder of a temple called his body.
- The better part of the man is soon ploughed into the soil for compost. By a seeming fate, commonly called necessity, they are employed, as…
- Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships, after a style purely his own, nor can he…
- My desire for knowledge is intermittent; but my desire to bathe my head in atmospheres unknown to my feet is perennial and constant. The highest…
- The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate…
- Comparatively, tattooing is not the hideous custom which it is called. It is not barbarous merely because the printing is skin-deep and unalterable.
- The cost of a thing is something called life which is given in exchange for it.
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