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Death is beautiful when seen to be a law, and not an accident. It is as common as life.

Death is beautiful when seen to be a law, and not an accident. It is as common as life.

Henry David Thoreau
Beautiful, Death, Rip
Henry David Thoreau (1974). “The correspondence of Henry David Thoreau”, Greenwood Pub Group

Amid a world of noisy, shallow actors it is noble to stand aside and say, 'I will simply be.

Henry David Thoreau
Noble, Actors, World
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1724, Delphi Classics

We cannot but pity the boy who has never fired a gun; he is no more humane, while his education has been sadly neglected.

Henry David Thoreau
Gun, Boys, Hunting
Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.137, Cosimo, Inc.

The world rests on principles.

Henry David Thoreau
Principles, World, Social Responsibility
Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.190, Jazzybee Verlag

I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn.

Henry David Thoreau
Nature, Animal, Garden
'Walden' (1854) 'Winter Visitors'

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats. A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. There is no play in them, for this comes after work. But it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

Henry David Thoreau
Wisdom, Country, Men
'Walden' (1854) 'Economy'

The cart before the horse is neither beautiful nor useful.

Henry David Thoreau
Beautiful, Patience, Wisdom
Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.63

Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution.

Henry David Thoreau
Long Distance Relationship, Nature, Taken
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.164, Simon and Schuster

To be a philosopher... is to solve some of the problems of life, not only theoretically, but practically.

Henry David Thoreau
Philosophy, Philosopher, Problem
Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.9, Cosimo, Inc.

Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling and spending their lives like servants.

Henry David Thoreau
Life, Men, Want

Law never made men a whit more just; and, by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents of injustice.

Henry David Thoreau
Mean, Men, Law
"My Thoughts Are Murder to the State: Thoreau's Essays on Political Philosophy".

I would remind my countrymen that they are to be men first, and Americans only at a late and convenient hour.

Henry David Thoreau
Men, Patriotism, Firsts
Henry David Thoreau (2007). “My Thoughts Are Murder to the State: Thoreau's Essays on Political Philosophy”, p.31, David M Gross

The student who secures his coveted leisure and retirement by systematically shirking any labor necessary to man obtains but an ignoble and unprofitable leisure, defrauding himself of the experience which alone can make leisure fruitful.

Henry David Thoreau
Education, Retirement, Leisure
Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.33, Cosimo, Inc.

We are older by faith than by experience.

Henry David Thoreau
Faith, Experience
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.234, Simon and Schuster

A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rare. For the most part we miss the hue and fragrance of the thought; as if we could be satisfied with the dews of the morning or evening without their colors, or the heavens without their azure.

Henry David Thoreau
Morning, Writing, Color
Henry David Thoreau (2014). “A Week On The Concord And Merrimack Rivers (Annotated Edition)”, p.86, Jazzybee Verlag

The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the alms-house as brightly as from the rich man's abode.

Henry David Thoreau
Reflection, Men, House
Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Walden”, p.232, Xist Publishing

Talk of mysteries! — Think of our life in nature, — daily to be shown matter, to come in contact with it, — rocks, trees, wind on our cheeks! The solid earth! The actual world! The common sense! Contact! Contact! Who are we? Where are we?

Henry David Thoreau
Thinking, Rocks, Wind
Henry David Thoreau (2014). “The Maine Woods”, p.34, Graphic Arts Books

It is true, I never assisted the sun materially in his rising, but doubt not, it was of the last importance only to be present at it.

Henry David Thoreau
Morning, Doubt, Rising
'Walden' (1854) 'Economy'

English sense has toiled, but Hindoo wisdom never perspired.

Henry David Thoreau
Wisdom, Common Sense, Common
Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.105, Xist Publishing

An unclean person is universally a slothful one.

Henry David Thoreau
Sloth, Literature, Persons
Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Walden”, p.158, Xist Publishing

Associate reverently, and as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts.

Henry David Thoreau
Associates
Henry David Thoreau (1960). “H. D. Thoreau, a Writer's Journal”, p.82, Courier Corporation

When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.

Henry David Thoreau
Music, Fear, Failure
Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.13, Heron Dance Press

The opening of large tracts by the ice-cutters commonly causes a pond to break up earlier; for the water, agitated by the wind, even in cold weather, wears away the surrounding ice.

Henry David Thoreau
Spring, Ice, Wind
Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.193, Cosimo, Inc.

Measure your health by your sympathy with morning and Spring.

Henry David Thoreau
Morning, Spring, Health
Henry David Thoreau, Ronald A. Bosco (2005). “Nature's Panorama: Thoreau on the Seasons”, p.106, Univ of Massachusetts Press

That aim in life is highest which requires the highest and finest discipline.

Henry David Thoreau
Discipline, Goal, Life Is
Henry David Thoreau (1960). “H. D. Thoreau, a Writer's Journal”, p.93, Courier Corporation

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