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Make Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- 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…
- Visit the Navy-Yard, and behold a marine, such a man as an American government can make, or such as it can make a man with…
- Instead of water we got here a draught of beer, a lumberer's drink, which would acclimate and naturalize a man at once,-which would make him…
- One farmer says to me, "You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for it furnishes nothing to make the bones with;" and so he religiously…
- 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…
- It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but…
- To speak practically and as a citizen, unlike those who call themselves no-government men, I ask for, not at once no government, but at once…
- Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature, and not be thrown off track by every nutshell and mosquito's wing that falls on the…
- First, there is the power of the Wind, constantly exerted over the globe... Here is an almost incalculable power at our disposal, yet how trifling…
- Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect, and that will be one step toward obtaining it.
- In the midst of this chopping sea of civilized life, such are the clouds and storms and quicksands and thousand-and-one items to be allowed for,…
- I quietly declare war with the State, after my fashion, though I will still make use and get advantage of her as I can, as…
- When I read some of the rules for speaking and writing the English language correctly, I think any fool can make a rule, and every…
- To what end do I lead a simple life at all, pray? That I may teach others to simplify their lives? - and so all…
- 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…
- The future is too soon the past. So make perseverance your excellence and go confidently in the direction of your dreams.
- Each second we live is a new and unique moment of the universe, a moment that will never be again And what do we teach…
- We have built for this world a family mansion, and the next a family tomb. The best works of art are the expression of man's…
- Have no mean hours, but be grateful for every hour, and accept what it brings. The reality will make any sincere record respectable.
- To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.
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