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House Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- When I go out of the house for a walk, uncertain as yet whither I will bend my steps, [I] submit myself to my instinct…
- Four things to think about. 1. Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes. 2. Let your…
- Staying in the house breeds a sort of insanity always. Every house is, in this sense, a hospital.
- I lingered most about the fireplace, as the most vital part of the house.
- I have learned that even the smallest house can be a home.
- 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…
- Most men appear never to have considered what a house is, and are actually though needlessly poor all their lives because they think that they…
- We saw one school-house in our walk, and listened to the sounds which issued from it; but it appeared like a place where the process,…
- I cannot but regard it as a kindness in those who have the steering of me that, by the want of pecuniary wealth, I have…
- The preachers and lecturers deal with men of straw, as they are men of straw themselves. Why, a free-spoken man, of sound lungs, cannot draw…
- It is surprising how many great men and women a small house will contain.
- At a certain season of our life we are accustomed to consider every spot as the possible site of a house.
- The gentle rain which waters my beans and keeps me in the house today is not drear and melancholy, but good for me too. Though…
- 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…
- What is sour in the house a bracing walk in the woods makes sweet.
- The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the alms-house as brightly as from the rich man's abode.
- I was more independent than any farmer in Concord, for I was not anchored to a house or farm, but could follow the bent of…
- What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
- I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
- If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run…
- I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls.
- Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them.
- While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it…
- And I am sure that I never read any memorable news in a newspaper. If we read of one man robbed, or murdered, or killed…
- I am no more lonely than a single mullein or dandelion in a pasture, or a bean leaf, or sorrel, or a horse-fly, or a…
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