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Letter "H" » Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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«What men call social virtue, good fellowship, is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter, which lie close together to keep each other warm»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
calling together, close together, commonly, fellowship, Fellowship of, litter, littered, littering, litters, pigs, The Fellowship of, warm
«Men go back to the mountains, as they go back to sailing ships at sea, because in the mountains and on the sea they must face up.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
at sea, face up, go back, sailing, ships
«The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
aged, at length, concludes, length, materials, middle-aged, middle-aged man, palace, perchance, temple, woodshed
«Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb-nail.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Simplicity
| Keywords:
accounts, affairs, a million, dozen, half a dozen, half dozen, nail, nailed, simplicity, thousand million, thumb, thumbs, two dozen
«I belive that there is a subtile magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright. It is not indifferent to us which way we walk. There is a right way; but we are very liable from heedlessness and stupidity to take the wrong one. We would fain take that walk, never yet taken by us through this actual world, which is perfectly symbolical of the path which we love to travel in the interior and ideal world; and sometimes, no doubt, we find it difficult to choose our direction, because it does not yet exist distinctly in our idea.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Direction
| Keywords:
actual, aright, distinctly, fain, heedlessness, indifferent, Interior, liable, no doubt, symbolical, Take That, unconsciously, yield
«A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
amusements, concealed, games, stereotype, stereotyped, stereotyping, The Games, unconscious
«The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Cute,
Cute friendship,
Friends,
Friendship,
Funny
| Keywords:
bestow
«If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
bald, citizen, Citizens for, danger, days, day off, deemed, deeming, deems, each day, earth, enterprising, half, half time, halves, her, industrious, Into the Woods, in regard to, Loafer, loafers, making, off, out of danger, regarded, regard as, shear, sheared, shearing, shears, shorn, speculator, speculators, spends, take time off, the Earth, time off, time of day, walks, walk off, woods
«Friendship is never established as an understood relation. It is a miracle which requires constant proofs. It is an exercise of the purest imagination and of the rarest faith.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Friendship
| Keywords:
proofs, purest, rarest, relation
«Only the defeated and deserters go to war.»
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