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Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.

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Nature, Eye, Garden
Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.9, Courier Corporation

The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.

Henry David Thoreau
Oracles, Literature, Calm
Henry David Thoreau (1862). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. By Henry D. Thoreau”, p.133

Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.

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Writing, Luck, Literature
Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.24, Courier Corporation

Society is commonly too cheap. We meet at very short intervals, not having had time to acquire any new value for each other. We meet at meals three times a day, and give each other a new taste of that old musty cheese that we are.

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Friendship, Giving, Meals
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

The cost of a thing is something called life which is given in exchange for it.

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Being Happy, Cost, Given

Treat your friends for what you know them to be. Regard no surfaces. Consider not what they did, but what they intended.

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Friendship, Treats, Surface
Henry David Thoreau (1993). “A Year in Thoreau's Journal: 1851”, p.314, Penguin

True kindness is a pure divine affinity, Not founded upon human consanguinity. It is a spirit, not a blood relation, Superior to family and station.

Henry David Thoreau
Kindness, Blood, Spirit
Henry David Thoreau (2014). “A Week On The Concord And Merrimack Rivers (Annotated Edition)”, p.217, Jazzybee Verlag

What would we not give for some great poem to read now, which would be in harmony with the scenery,--for if men read aright, methinks they would never read anything but poems. No history nor philosophy can supply their place.

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Philosophy, Reading, Men
Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.64, Xist Publishing

Write while the heat is in you.

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Writing, Heat, Great Writing
Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.13, Heron Dance Press

What means the fact--which is so common, so universal--that some soul that has lost all hope for itself can inspire in another listening soul an infinite confidence in it, even while it is expressing its despair?

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Hope, Communication, Mean
Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.40, Jazzybee Verlag

Expect no trivial truth from me, unless I am on the witness- stand. I will come as near to lying as you can drive a coach and four.

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Truth, Lying, Law
Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.366, Penguin

What stuff is the man made of who is not coexistent in our thought with the purest and sublimest truth?

Henry David Thoreau
Truth, Character, Men

For if we take the ages into our account, may there not be a civilization going on among brutes as well as men?

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Nature, Men, Civilization
Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.163, Graphic Arts Books

It will always be found that one flourishing institution exists and battens on another mouldering one. The Present itself is parasitic to this extent.

Henry David Thoreau
Flourishing, Institutions, Found
Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1865). “Letters to Various Persons”, p.140

Surely, we are provided with senses as well fitted to penetrate the spaces of the real, the substantial, the eternal, as these outward are to penetrate the material universe. Veias, Menu, Zoroaster, Socrates, Christ, Shakespeare, Swedenborg,--these are some of our astronomers.

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Real, Space, Transcendentalism
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.307, Courier Corporation

Dwell as near as possible to the channel in which your life flows.

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Life, Peace, Teaching
Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.182, Yale University Press

Action from principle, the perception and the performance of right, changes things and relations; it is essentially revolutionary, and does not consist wholly with anything which was. It not only divides States and churches, it divides families; ay, it divides the individual, separating the diabolical in him from the divine.

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Perception, Church, Doe
Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.202, Graphic Arts Books

There is no just and serene criticism as yet.

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Criticism, Literature, Quiet
Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.267, Xist Publishing

Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour.

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Men, Details, Hours
Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.202, Penguin

No human being, past the thoughtless age of boyhood, will wantonly murder any creature which holds its life by the same tenure that he does.

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Life, Learning, Knowledge
Henry David Thoreau, Linda Corrente (1984). “Henry David Thoreau's Walden”, Barrons Educational Series Incorporated

One attraction in coming to the woods to live was that I should have leisure and opportunity to see the spring come in.

Henry David Thoreau
Spring, Opportunity, Should Have
Henry David Thoreau (2012). “Walden; Or, Life in the Woods”, p.195, Courier Corporation

We can never have enough of Nature.

Henry David Thoreau
Nature, Environmental, Environment
1854 Walden, or Life in the Woods,'Spring'.

Some hard and dry book in a dead language, which you have found it impossible to read at home, but for which you still have a lingering regard, is the best to carry with you on a journey.

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Travel, Book, Reading
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.232, Delphi Classics

I never read a novel, they have so little real life and thought in them.

Henry David Thoreau
Real, Reading, Littles
Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.95, Penguin

Do not read the newspapers.

Henry David Thoreau
Reading, Journalism, Newspapers
Henry David Thoreau, David Gross (2007). “The Price of Freedom: Political Philosophy from Thoreau's Journals”, p.46, David M Gross

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