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I please myself with imagining a State at last which can afford to be just to all men, and to treat the individual with respect as a neighbor.

I please myself with imagining a State at last which can afford to be just to all men, and to treat the individual with respect as a neighbor.

Henry David Thoreau
Men, Lasts, Neighbor
Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.88, Penguin

In short, I am convinced, both by faith and experience, that to maintain one's self on this earth is not a hardship but a pastime, if we will live simply and wisely; as the pursuits of the simpler nations are still the sports of the more artificial.

Henry David Thoreau
Inspirational, Life, Sports
Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.46, Cosimo, Inc.

No method nor discipline can supersede the necessity of being forever on the alert. What is a course of history, or philosophy, or poetry, or the most admirable routine of life, compared with the discipline of looking always at what is to be seen? Will you be a reader, a student merely, or a seer?

Henry David Thoreau
Philosophy, Discipline, Forever
Henry David Thoreau (2017). “HENRY DAVID THOREAU - Ultimate Collection: 6 Books, 26 Essays & 60+ Poems, Including Translations. Biographies & Letters (Illustrated): Walden, The Maine Woods, Cape Cod, A Yankee in Canada, Canoeing in the Wilderness, Civil Disobedience, Slavery in Massachusetts, Life Without Principle, Excursions, Poems of Nature, Familiar Letters…”, p.53, e-artnow

For more than five years I maintained myself thus solely by the labour of my hands, and I found, that by working about six weeks in a year, I could meet all the expenses of living.

Henry David Thoreau
Hands, Years, Six
'Walden' (1854) 'Economy'

The imagination never forgets; it is a re-membering. It is not foundationless, but most reasonable, and it alone uses all the knowledge of the intellect.

Henry David Thoreau
Imagination, Use, Never Forget
Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.159, Jazzybee Verlag

The virtue which we appreciate, we to some extent appropriate.

Henry David Thoreau
Appreciation, Appreciate, Virtue
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.211, Delphi Classics

The walls that fence our fields, as well as modern Rome, and not less the Parthenon itself, are all built of ruins.

Henry David Thoreau
Wall, Rome, Fields
Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.179, Xist Publishing

I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.

Henry David Thoreau
Believe, Levels, Common
Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.365, Penguin

Education makes a straight ditch of a free meandering brook.

Henry David Thoreau
Education, Brooks

The researcher is more memorable than the researched.

Henry David Thoreau
Memorable, Knowledge, History
Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.108, Xist Publishing

Fame itself is but an epitaph; as late, as false, as true.

Henry David Thoreau
Truth, Fame, Late
Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.120, Xist Publishing

A thoroughbred business man cannot enter heartily upon the business of life without first looking into his accounts.

Henry David Thoreau
Life, Business, Men
Henry David Thoreau (2007). “My Thoughts Are Murder to the State: Thoreau's Essays on Political Philosophy”, p.121, David M Gross

Always the laws of light are the same, but the modes and degrees of seeing vary.

Henry David Thoreau
Knowledge, Light, Sight
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.126, Delphi Classics

Since all things are good, men fail at last to distinguish which is the bane and which the antidote.

Henry David Thoreau
Knowledge, Men, Evil
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.197, Delphi Classics

The highest that we can attain to is not Knowledge, but Sympathy with Intelligence.

Henry David Thoreau
Sympathy, Knowledge, Intelligence
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.361, Simon and Schuster

I feel as if my life had grown more outward when I can express it.

Henry David Thoreau
Life, Feels, Ifs
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.247, Delphi Classics

You need not rest your reputation on the dinners you give.

Henry David Thoreau
Integrity, Giving, Needs
Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.92, Cosimo, Inc.

When a man dies he kicks the dust.

Henry David Thoreau
Men, Dust, Kicks
Henry David Thoreau (1995). “Walden: An Annotated Edition”, p.65, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Almost any mode of observation will be successful at last, for what is most wanted is method.

Henry David Thoreau
Successful, Science, Lasts
Henry David Thoreau (2014). “The Illustrated "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers"”, p.363, Princeton University Press

The stars are distant and unobtrusive, but bright and enduring as our fairest and most memorable experiences.

Henry David Thoreau
Stars, Memorable, Experience
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.290, Delphi Classics

It requires more than a day's devotion to know and to possess the wealth of a day.

Henry David Thoreau
Experience, Wealth, Devotion
Henry David Thoreau, Nancy L. Rosenblum (1996). “Thoreau: Political Writings”, p.114, Cambridge University Press

In the unbending of the arm to do the deed there is experience worth all the maxims in the world.

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

It is the art of mankind to polish the world, and every one who works is scrubbing in some part.

Henry David Thoreau
Art, Ambition, World
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1771, Delphi Classics

I have not earned what I have already enjoyed.

Henry David Thoreau
Rewards, Labor, Enjoyed
Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.242, Jazzybee Verlag

All great enterprises are self-supporting.

Henry David Thoreau
Self, Independence, Enterprise
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Quotable Thoreau: An A to Z Glossary of Inspiring Quotations from Henry David Thoreau”, p.87, BookBaby

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