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God is alone,-but the devil, he is far from being alone; he sees a great deal of company; he is legion.

God is alone,-but the devil, he is far from being alone; he sees a great deal of company; he is legion.

Henry David Thoreau
Devil, Legion, Deals
Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walden and Civil Disobedience”, p.98, Xist Publishing

Men must speak English who can write Sanskrit; they must speak a modern language who write, perchance, an ancient and universal one.

Henry David Thoreau
Writing, Men, Speak English
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Selected Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

We must have infinite faith in each other. If we have not, we must never let it leak out that we have not.

Henry David Thoreau
Faith, Infinite, Leaks
Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.77, Courier Corporation

Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life. This life in the present.

Henry David Thoreau
Relaxation, Aimless Life, This Life
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Quotable Thoreau: An A to Z Glossary of Inspiring Quotations from Henry David Thoreau”, p.126, BookBaby

Music never stops; it is only the listening that is intermittent.

Henry David Thoreau
Listening, Intermittent

Men have come to such a pass that they frequently starve, not for want of necessaries, but for want of luxuries.

Henry David Thoreau
Men, Luxury, Want

For my part, I would rather look toward Rutland than Jerusalem. Rutland,--modern town,--land of ruts,--trivial and worn,--not toosacred,--with no holy sepulchre, but profane green fields and dusty roads, and opportunity to live as holy a life as you can, where the sacredness, if there is any, is all in yourself and not in the place.

Henry David Thoreau
Opportunity, Green Fields, Land
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.1709, e-artnow

We are superior to the joy we experience.

Henry David Thoreau
Joy, Experience, Superiors
Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1865). “Letters to Various Persons”, p.103

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. Books, the oldest and the best, stand naturally and rightfully on the shelves of every cottage. They have no cause of their own to plead, but while they enlighten and sustain the reader his common sense will not refuse them. Their authors are a natural and irresistible aristocracy in every society, and, more than kings or emperors, exert an influence on mankind.

Henry David Thoreau
Kings, Book, Common Sense
Henry David Thoreau (2016). “The Illustrated Walden: Thoreau Bicentennial Edition”, p.107, Penguin

As for the pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many men could be found degraded enough to spend their lives constructing a tomb for some ambitious booby, whom it would have been wiser and manlier to have drowned in the Nile, and then given his body to the dogs.

Henry David Thoreau
Life, Dog, Men
Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.93

A man receives only what he is ready to receive... The phenomenon or fact that cannot in any wise be linked with the rest of what he has observed, he does not observe.

Henry David Thoreau
Wise, Science, Men

Remember that you need not eat unless you are hungry.

Henry David Thoreau
Needs, Remember, Hunger
Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.148, Jazzybee Verlag

The words which express our faith and piety are not definite; yet they are significant and fragrant like frankincense to superior natures.

Henry David Thoreau
Faith, Nature, Significant
Henry David Thoreau, Stephen Allen Fender (2008). “Walden”, p.289, Oxford University Press

What is the singing of birds, or any natural sound, compared with the voice of one we love.

Henry David Thoreau
Love, Voice, Bird
Henry David Thoreau (1993). “A Year in Thoreau's Journal: 1851”, p.50, Penguin

And if the civilized man's pursuits are no worthier than the savage's, if he is employed the greater part of his life in obtaininggross necessaries and comforts merely, why should he have a better dwelling than the former?

Henry David Thoreau
Men, Civilization, Dwelling
Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.29, Graphic Arts Books

As a man grows older, his ability to sit still and follow indoor occupations increases. He grows vespertinal in his habits as theevening of life approaches, till at last he comes forth only just before sundown, and gets all the walk that he requires in half an hour.

Henry David Thoreau
Men, Age, Half
Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.394, Penguin

Age is no better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it has lost.

Henry David Thoreau
Age, Youth, Lost
Henry David Thoreau, Nancy L. Rosenblum (1996). “Thoreau: Political Writings”, p.27, Cambridge University Press

The mass of men serve the state thus, not as men mainly, but as machines, with their bodies.

Henry David Thoreau
Men, Machines, Body
Civil Disobedience (1849)

It is remarkable how easily and insensibly we fall into a particular route, and make a beaten track for ourselves.

Henry David Thoreau
Fall, Order, Track
Henry David Thoreau (2010). “Walden”, p.300, Bibliolis Books

If we were always, indeed, getting our living, and regulating our lives according to the last and best mode we had learned, we should never be troubled with ennui.

Henry David Thoreau
Lasts, Should, Ennui
Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.177

I turned my face more exclusively than ever to the woods, where I was better known.

Henry David Thoreau
Tree, Woods, Faces
Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.12, Cosimo, Inc.

Let your life be a counter friction to stop the machine.

Henry David Thoreau
Machines, Life Is, Friction
Civil Disobedience (1849) See Savio 1

Wherever men have lived, there is a story to be told

Henry David Thoreau
Men, Stories
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.3061, Delphi Classics

In literature it is only the wild that attracts us.

Henry David Thoreau
Literature
Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.40, Courier Corporation

I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark.

Henry David Thoreau
Determination, Sleep, Writing
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.318, Simon and Schuster

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