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- Nature is doing her best each moment to make us well. She exists for no other end. Do not resist. With the least inclination to…
- If I devote myself to other pursuits and contemplations, I must first see, at least, that I do not pursue them sitting upon another man's…
- We must take root; send out some little fibre at least, even every winter day.
- After all the field of battle possesses many advantages over the drawing-room. There at least is no room for pretension or excessive ceremony, no shaking…
- If it is necessary, omit one bridge over the river, go round a little there, and throw one arch at least over the darker gulf…
- You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.
- 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…
- It is not a man's duty, as a matter of course, to devote himself to the eradication of any, even the most enormous wrong; he…
- I heartily accept the motto, "That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and…
- I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life…
- Before the end of December, generally, they experience their first thawing. Those which a month ago were sour, crabbed, and quite unpalatable to the civilized…
- The imagination, give it the least license, dives deeper and soars higher than Nature goes.
- As the least drop of wine tinges the whole goblet, so the least particle of truth colors our whole life.
- When you are starting away, leaving your more familiar fields, for a little adventure like a walk, you look at every object with a traveler's,…
- I once found a kernel of corn in the middle of a deep wood by Walden, tucked in behind a lichen on a pine, about…
- I see in many places little barberry bushes just come up densely in the cow-dung, like young apple trees, the berries having been eaten by…
- That government is best which governs least.
- I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while.
- There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know.…
- The path of least resistance leads to crooked rivers and crooked men.
- I heartily accept the motto, "That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and…
- Spending of the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy questionable liberty during the least valuable part of it, reminds me…
- The morning, which is the most memorable season of the day, is the awakening hour. Then there is least somnolence in us; and for an…
- No man ever stood the lower in my estimation for having a patch in his clothes: yet I am sure that there is greater anxiety,…
- Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resigns his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man a conscience then?…
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