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As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.

As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.

Henry David Thoreau
Past, Order, May
Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.90, Xist Publishing

If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.

Henry David Thoreau
Humanity, Literature, Becoming
Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.32, Cosimo, Inc.

I have a great deal of company in my house; especially in the morning, when nobody calls.

Henry David Thoreau
Good Morning, Reality, House
"Walden, Or, Life in the Woods".

It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.

Henry David Thoreau
Men, Apples, Tree
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Selected Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.206, Simon and Schuster

There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.

Henry David Thoreau
Nature, Arrogance, Bees
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Selected Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature, and not be thrown off the track by every nutshell and mosquito's wing that falls on the rails.

Henry David Thoreau
Fall, Wings, Rivers
Henry David Thoreau (1995). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods”, p.63, Courier Corporation

I believe in the forest, and in the meadow, and in the night in which the corn grows.

Henry David Thoreau
Believe, Night, Corn
Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.402, Penguin

A sentence should be read as if its author, had he held a plough instead of a pen, could have drawn a furrow deep and straight to the end.

Henry David Thoreau
Ends, Should, Sentences
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.996, Delphi Classics

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.

Henry David Thoreau
Time, Fishing, Eternity
Henry David Thoreau (2012). “Walden; Or, Life in the Woods”, p.64, Courier Corporation

Comparatively, tattooing is not the hideous custom which it is called. It is not barbarous merely because the printing is skin-deep and unalterable.

Henry David Thoreau
Skins, Printing, Skin Deep
Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.44

Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have left an indelible impression, and we are ever and anon reminded of them.

Henry David Thoreau
Memories, Inspiration, Losing
Henry David Thoreau (1993). “A Year in Thoreau's Journal: 1851”, p.204, Penguin

Philanthropy is almost the only virtue which is sufficiently appreciated by mankind.

Henry David Thoreau
Life, Charity, Appreciated
Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.121

Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.

Henry David Thoreau
Wisdom, Nature, Science
Henry David Thoreau (1960). “H. D. Thoreau, a Writer's Journal”, p.221, Courier Corporation

"Hear! hear!" screamed the jay from a neighboring tree, where I had heard a tittering for some time, "winter has a concentrated and nutty kernel, if you know where to look for it."

Henry David Thoreau
Winter, Tree, Looks
Henry David Thoreau (1962). “Journal”

How novel and original must be each new mans view of the universe - for though the world is so old - and so many books have been written - each object appears wholly undescribed to our experience - each field of thought wholly unexplored - the whole world is an America - a New World.

Henry David Thoreau
Book, Views, America
Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.137, Penguin

In August, the large masses of berries, which, when in flower, had attracted many wild bees, gradually assumed their bright velvety crimson hue, and by their weight again bent down and broke their tender limbs.

Henry David Thoreau
Summer, Flower, August
Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.179

If one listens to the faintest but constant suggestions of his genius, which are certainly true, he sees not to what extremes, or even insanity, it may lead him; and yet that way, as he grows more resolute and faithful, his road lies.

Henry David Thoreau
Depression, Lying, Future
Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.272, Penguin

You fail in your thoughts, or you prevail in your thoughts only.

Henry David Thoreau
Success, Thoughtful, Thinking
Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1865). “Letters to Various Persons”, p.180

Cast your whole vote, not a strip of paper merely, but your whole influence. A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority; it is not even a minority then; but it is irresistible when it clogs by its whole weight.... If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.

Henry David Thoreau
Men, Blood, Years
Henry David Thoreau (2017). “Walden and on the Duty of Civil Disobedience”, p.299, Library of Alexandria

In solitude especialy do we begin to appreciate the advantage of living with someone who can think.

Henry David Thoreau
Life, Thinking, Appreciate

Let go of the past and go for the future.

Henry David Thoreau
Letting Go, Past, Bright Future

You think that I am impoverishing myself withdrawing from men, but in my solitude I have woven for myself a silken web or chrysalis, and, nymph-like, shall ere long burst forth a more perfect creature, fitted for a higher society.

Henry David Thoreau
Wisdom, Loneliness, Men
Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.173, Courier Corporation

As a man thinks of himself, so he is.

Henry David Thoreau
Men, Thinking

Endeavor to live the life you have imagined.

Henry David Thoreau
Live Life, Endeavor

I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do.

Henry David Thoreau
Trust, Father Son, Thinking
Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.19

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