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The laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day.
Topic: Labor
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It is only when we forget out learning that we begin to know.
Topic: Learning
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He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate.
Topic: Leisure
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The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.
Topic: Leisure
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I have received no more than one or two letters in my life that were worth the postage.
Topic: Letters
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Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
Topic: Liberty
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The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer. -Henry David Thoreau.
Topic: Listening
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If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
Topic: Literary
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There is no remedy for love but to love more.
Topic: Love
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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.
Topic: Luxury
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Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
Topic: Luxury
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Men have become tools of their tools.
Topic: Machine
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Any man more right than his neighbors, constitutes a majority of one.
Topic: Majority
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All change is a miracle to contemplate; but it is a miracle which is taking place every second.
Topic: Miracles
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Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in milk.
Topic: Miscellaneous
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If misery loves company, misery has company enough.
Topic: Misery
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The only wealth is life.
Topic: Money
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Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.
Topic: Money
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Don't be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.
Topic: Morals
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If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
Topic: Music
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If the fairest features of the landscape are to be named after men, let them be the noblest and worthiest men alone.
Topic: Names
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However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are the richest.
Topic: Names
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Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.
Topic: Nature
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You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; a certain free-margin, and even vagueness - ignorance, credulity - helps your enjoyment of these things.
Topic: Nature
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The bluebird carries the sky on his back.
Topic: Nature
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I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beech-tree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines.
Topic: Nature
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If words were invented to conceal thought, newspapers are a great improvement of a bad invention.
Topic: Newspapers
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Public opinion is a weak tyrant, compared with our private opinion--what a man thinks of himself, that is which determines, or rather indicates his fate.
Topic: Opinion
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In the long run, we only hit what we aim at.
Topic: Opportunity
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All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy.
Topic: Perceptions
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The words which express our faith and piety are not definite; yet they are significant and fragrant like frankincense to superior natures.
Topic: Piety
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Pity the man who has a character to support -- it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poor indeed.
Topic: Pity
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That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
Topic: Pleasure
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Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.
Topic: Poetry
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Poverty ... It is life near the bone, where it is sweetest.
Topic: Poverty
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The highest law gives a thing to him who can use it.
Topic: Property
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The purity men love is like the mists which envelope the earth, and not like the azure ether beyond.
Topic: Purity
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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.
Topic: Quiet
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It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.
Topic: Rank
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Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
Topic: Religion / Beliefs
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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation . . . . A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind.
Topic: Resignation
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What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
Topic: Resignation
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Light Winged Smoke
Lightwinged Smoke, Icarian bird,
Melting thy pinions in thy upward flight,
Lark without song, and the messenger of dawn,
Circling above the hamlets as thy nest;
Or else, departing dream, and shadowy form
Of midnight vision, gathering up thy skirts;
By night star-veiling, and by day
Darkening the light and blotting out the sun;
Go thou my incense upward from this hearth,
And ask the gods to pardon this clear flame.
-Henry David Thoreau-.
Topic: Reverie
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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 ourselves nor one another thus tenderly.
Topic: Sensitivity
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It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.
Topic: Sensitivity
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Must be out-of-doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life.
Topic: Sentiment
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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. With respect to luxuries and comforts, the wisest have even lived a more simple and meagre life than the poor. -Henry David Thoreau.
Topic: Simplicity
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Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!
Topic: Simplicity
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After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.
Topic: Sin
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What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
Topic: Society
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