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There have been some nations who could do nothing but construct tombs, and these are the only traces which they have left. They are the heathen.

There have been some nations who could do nothing but construct tombs, and these are the only traces which they have left. They are the heathen.

Henry David Thoreau
Graves, Heathen, Constructs
Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.119, Xist Publishing

We are a nation of politicians, concerned about the outmost defenses only of freedom. It is our children's children who may perchance be really free.

Henry David Thoreau
Children, Freedom, Liberty
Henry David Thoreau, Nancy L. Rosenblum (1996). “Thoreau: Political Writings”, p.117, Cambridge University Press

It is not every man who can be a Christian, even in a very moderate sense, whatever education you give him. It is a matter of constitution and temperament, after all. He may have to be born again many times. I have known many a man who pretended to be a Christian, in whom it was ridiculous, for he had no genius for it. It is not every man who can be a free man, even.

Henry David Thoreau
Christian, Freedom, Men
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Selected Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.152, Simon and Schuster

The man who takes the liberty to live is superior to all the laws, by virtue of his relation to the lawmaker.

Henry David Thoreau
God, Freedom, Men
Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Essays of Henry David Thoreau - Walking”, p.37, Editora Dracaena

I am a good horse to travel, but not from choice a roadster. The landscape-painter uses the figures of men to mark a road. He would not make that use of my figure.

Henry David Thoreau
Travel, Horse, Men
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1115, Delphi Classics

Roads are made for horses and men of business. I do not travel in them much.

Henry David Thoreau
Travel, Horse, Men
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1115, Delphi Classics

Deep are the foundations of sincerity. Even stone walls have their foundation below the frost.

Henry David Thoreau
Wall, Foundation, Frost
Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.234, Xist Publishing

Why look in the dark for light?

Henry David Thoreau
Dark, Light, Looks
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.124, Courier Corporation

I have been as sincere a worshipper of Aurora as the Greeks.

Henry David Thoreau
Greek, Literature, Aurora
Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.201, Penguin

How can any man be weak who dares to be at all?

Henry David Thoreau
Men, Literature, Glitter
Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.133, Jazzybee Verlag

May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love!

Henry David Thoreau
Love, Sweet, Literature
Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.164, Jazzybee Verlag

Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.

Henry David Thoreau
Inspirational, Success, Business
Henry David Thoreau (1993). “A Year in Thoreau's Journal: 1851”, p.25, Penguin

There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.

Henry David Thoreau
Literature, Good Nature, Bottom
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1138, Delphi Classics

I have found that hollow, which even I had relied on for solid.

Henry David Thoreau
Niece, Literature, Found
Henry David Thoreau (2000). “Walden and Other Writings: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.721, Modern Library

Some are reputed sick and some are not. It often happens that the sicker man is the nurse to the sounder.

Henry David Thoreau
Men, Nurse, Sick
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.466, Simon and Schuster

There is but one stage for the peasant and the actor.

Henry David Thoreau
Actors, Stage, Peasants
Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.223, Xist Publishing

Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through, and you could go in the back way.

Henry David Thoreau
Yards, Literature, Way
Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.403, Penguin

How many things there are concerning which we might well deliberate whether we had better know them.

Henry David Thoreau
Deep Life, Literature, Might
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Selected Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.237, Simon and Schuster

I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.

Henry David Thoreau
Men, Literature, Common
Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.112, Jazzybee Verlag

In the meanest are all the materials of manhood, only they are not rightly disposed.

Henry David Thoreau
Men, Materials, Manhood
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Selected Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

It is too late to be studying Hebrew; it is more important to understand even the slang of today.

Henry David Thoreau
Important, Too Late, Literature
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Selected Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.167, Simon and Schuster

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

Henry David Thoreau
Respect, Learning, Men
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.516, Simon and Schuster

Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

Henry David Thoreau
Change, Workout, People
Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience: Top American Literary”, p.4, 谷月社

Where there is an observatory and a telescope, we expect that any eyes will see new worlds at once.

Henry David Thoreau
New Relationship, Eye, Perspective
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.271, Delphi Classics

I did not know that we had ever quarreled.

Henry David Thoreau
Last Words, Positive Atheism, Funny Famous Last Words
Henry David Thoreau, James Henry Daugherty (1967). “Henry David Thoreau: a man for our time”

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