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He is blessed over all mortals who loses no moment of the passing life in remembering the past

He is blessed over all mortals who loses no moment of the passing life in remembering the past

Henry David Thoreau
Life, Blessed, Past
Henry David Thoreau (1993). “Civil Disobedience, and Other Essays”, p.73, Courier Corporation

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see - i.e. compare it to, something worse or better, that determines whether you are respectively grateful and happy or ungrateful and bitter.

Henry David Thoreau
Gratitude, Grateful, Looks

Probe the universe in a myriad of points. ... He is a wise man who has taken many views; to whom stones and plants and animals and a myriad of objects have each suggesting something, contributed something.

Henry David Thoreau
Wise, Taken, Animal
Henry David Thoreau, David Gross (2007). “The Price of Freedom: Political Philosophy from Thoreau's Journals”, p.5, David M Gross

I saw deep in the eyes of the animals the human soul look out upon me. I saw where it was born deep down under feathers and fur, or condemned for a while to roam four-footed among the brambles,I caught the clinging mute glance of the prisoner and swore that I would be faithful.

Henry David Thoreau
Eye, Animal, Soul

The virtues of a superior man are like the wind; the virtues of a common man are like the grass; the grass, when the wind passes over it, bends.

Henry David Thoreau
Men, Wind, Common
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.412, Delphi Classics

When the leaves fall, the whole earth is a cemetery pleasant to walk in. I love to wander and muse over them in their graves. Here are no lying nor vain epitaphs.

Henry David Thoreau
Death, Summer, Lying
"The Essays of Henry D. Thoreau: Selected and Edited by Lewis Hyde".

The sacredness, if there is any, is all in yourself and not in the place.

Henry David Thoreau
Sacredness, Ifs
Henry David Thoreau, Joseph O. Valentine, Thoreau Society (2001). “Thoreau on Land: Nature's Canvas”, p.37, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Give me a Wildness whose glance no civilization can endure.

Henry David Thoreau
Civilization, Giving, Glances
Henry David Thoreau, David Gross (2007). “The Price of Freedom: Political Philosophy from Thoreau's Journals”, p.48, David M Gross

One piece of good sense would be more memorable than a monument as high as the moon.

Henry David Thoreau
Memorable, Moon, Would Be
Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.92

The foul slime stands for the sloth and vice of man, the decay of humanity; the fragrant flower that springs from it, for the purity and courage which are immortal.

Henry David Thoreau
Spring, Flower, Men
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Selected Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.126, Simon and Schuster

The greater part of what my neighbors call good I believe in my soul to be bad, and if I repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior. What demon possessed me that I behaved so well? You may say the wisest thing you can, old man, - you who have lived seventy years, not without honor of a kind, - I hear an irresistible voice which invites me away from all that.

Henry David Thoreau
Believe, Men, Voice
Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.19

There can be no very black melancholy to him who lives in the midst of Nature and has his senses still.

Henry David Thoreau
Nature, Black, Melancholy
Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.84, Graphic Arts Books

Only the defeated and deserters go to war.

Henry David Thoreau
War, Defeated
Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Walden”, p.229, Xist Publishing

I am a citizen of the world first, and of this country at a later and more convenient hour.

Henry David Thoreau
Country, Citizens, World

I suppose you think that persons who are as old as your father and myself are always thinking about very grave things, but I know that we are meditating the same old themes that we did when we were ten years old, only we go more gravely about it.

Henry David Thoreau
Father, Thinking, Years
Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.19, Heron Dance Press

After all, I believe it is the style of thought entirely, and the style of expression, which makes the difference in books.

Henry David Thoreau
Believe, Book, Reading
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.2129, Delphi Classics

A truly good book attracts very little favor to itself. It is so true that it teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down and commence living on its hint. When I read an indifferent book, it seems the best thing I can do, but the inspiring volume hardly leaves me leisure to finish its latter pages. It is slipping out of my fingers while I read. It creates no atmosphere in which it may be perused, but one in which its teachings may be practiced. It confers on me such wealth that I lay it down with regret. What I began by reading I must finish by acting.

Henry David Thoreau
Regret, Book, Teaching

He who cannot read is worse than deaf and blind, is yet but half alive, is still-born.

Henry David Thoreau
Book, Reading, Deaf And Blind
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.2552, Delphi Classics

If men were to be destroyed and the books they have written were to be transmitted to a new race of creatures, in a new world, what kind of record would be found in them of so remarkable a phenomenon as the rainbow?

Henry David Thoreau
Book, Reading, Men
Henry David Thoreau (1991). “A Yearning Toward Wildness: Environmental Quotations from the Writings of Henry David Thoreau”, Peachtree Pub Limited

The woodchopper reads the wisdom of the ages recorded on the paper that holds his dinner, then lights his pipe with it. When we ask for a scrap of paper for the most trivial use, it may have the confessions of Augustine or the sonnets of Shakespeare, and we not observe it. The student kindles his fire, the editor packs his trunk, the sportsman loads his gun, the traveler wraps his dinner, the Irishman papers his shanty, the schoolboy peppers the plastering, the belle pins up her hair, with the printed thoughts of men.

Henry David Thoreau
Reading, Book, Gun

The book exists for us perchance which will explain our miracles and and reveal new ones. The at present unutterable things we may find somewhere uttered. These same questions that disturb and puzzle and confound us have in their turn occurred to all the wise men; not one has been omitted; and each has answered them, according to his ability, by his words and his life.

Henry David Thoreau
Wise, Book, Reading
Henry David Thoreau (2004). “Walden: Introduction and Annotations by Bill McKibben”, p.102, Beacon Press

There is always room and occasion enough for a true book on any subject; as there is room for more light the brightest day and more rays will not interfere with the first.

Henry David Thoreau
Book, Reading, Light
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.2068, Delphi Classics

The chief want, in every state that I have been into, was a high and earnest purpose in its inhabitants.

Henry David Thoreau
Responsibility, Purpose, Want
Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.225, Graphic Arts Books

The genuine remains of Ossian, or those ancient poems which bear his name, though of less fame and extent, are, in many respects,of the same stamp with the Iliad itself. He asserts the dignity of the bard no less than Homer, and in his era, we hear of no other priest than he.

Henry David Thoreau
Names, Poetry, Eras
Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.244, Xist Publishing

The poet is no tender slip of fairy stock, who requires peculiar institutions and edicts for his defense, but the toughest son ofearth and of Heaven, and by his greater strength and endurance his fainting companions will recognize the God in him. It is the worshipers of beauty, after all, who have done the real pioneer work of the world.

Henry David Thoreau
Strength, Real, Son
Henry David Thoreau (1873). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.361

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