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- 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…
- So thoroughly and sincerely are we compelled to live, reverencing our life, and denying the possibility of change. This is the only way, we say;…
- The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.
- All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.
- It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.
- I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
- What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.
- Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.
- Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.
- A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.
- An unclean person is universally a slothful one.
- There is but one stage for the peasant and the actor.
- I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another.
- As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem,…
- to one whose elastic and vigorous thoughts keep pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning. It matters not the labors and attitudes…
- One is not born into the world to do everything but to do something.
- It is not for a man to put himself in such an attitude to society, but to maintain himself in whatever attitude he find himself…
- 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…
- Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one already.
- The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat…
- A Friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us.
- 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…
- If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a…
- I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to…
- I found in myself, and still find, an instinct toward a higher, or, as it is named, spiritual life, as do most men, and another…
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