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Already nature is serving all those uses which science slowly derives on a much higher and grander scale to him that will be served by her. When the sunshine falls on the path of the poet, he enjoys all those pure

Already nature is serving all those uses which science slowly derives on a much higher and grander scale to him that will be served by her. When the sunshine falls on the path of the poet, he enjoys all those pure benefits and pleasures which the arts slowly and partially realize from age to age. The winds which fan his cheek waft him the sum of that profit and happiness which their lagging inventions supply.

Henry David Thoreau
Art, Nature, Fall
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1042, Delphi Classics

The poet will maintain serenity in spite of all disappointments. He is expected to preserve an unconcerned and healthy outlook over the world, while he lives.

Henry David Thoreau
Disappointment, Serenity, Poetry
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.279, Simon and Schuster

Exaggerated history is poetry, and truth referred to a new standard.

Henry David Thoreau
Truth, History, Poetry
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1089, Delphi Classics

The poet is blithe and cheery ever, and as well as nature.

Henry David Thoreau
Poetry, Poet, Blithe
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.279, Simon and Schuster

A township where one primitive forest waves above while another primitive forest rots below,--such a town is fitted to raise not only corn and potatoes, but poets and philosophers for the coming ages. In such a soil grew Homer and Confucius and the rest, and out of such a wilderness comes the Reformer eating locusts and wild honey.

Henry David Thoreau
Poetry, Age, Honey
Henry David Thoreau (1993). “Civil Disobedience, and Other Essays”, p.63, Courier Corporation

I have no doubt that they lived pretty much the same sort of life in the Homeric age, for men have always thought more of eating than of fighting; then, as now, their minds ran chiefly on the "hot bread and sweet cakes;" and the fur and lumber trade is an old story to Asia and Europe.

Henry David Thoreau
Sweet, War, Fighting
Henry David Thoreau (2014). “The Maine Woods”, p.57, Graphic Arts Books

Show me two villages, one embowered in trees and blazing with all the glories of October, the other a merely trivial and treelesswaste, or with only a single tree or two for suicides, and I shall be sure that in the latter will be found the most starved and bigoted religionists and the most desperate drinkers.

Henry David Thoreau
Suicide, Two, Tree
Henry David Thoreau (1992). “The Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.193, Rowman & Littlefield

In respect to religion and the healing art, all nations are still in a state of barbarism. In the most civilized countries the priest is still but a Powwow, and the physician a Great Medicine.

Henry David Thoreau
Country, Art, Healing
Henry David Thoreau (2014). “A Week On The Concord And Merrimack Rivers (Annotated Edition)”, p.215, Jazzybee Verlag

It would be worthy of the age to print together the collected Scriptures or Sacred Writings of the several nations, the Chinese, the Hindoos, the Persians, the Hebrews, and others, as the Scripture of mankind. The New Testament is still, perhaps, too much on the lips and in the hearts of men to be called a Scripture in this sense. Such a juxtaposition and comparison might help to liberalize the faith of men.... This would be the Bible, or Book of Books, which let the missionaries carry to the uttermost parts of the earth.

Henry David Thoreau
Book, Writing, Heart
Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.101, Xist Publishing

As for me, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob are now only the subtlest imaginable essences, which would not stain the morning sky.

Henry David Thoreau
Bible, Morning, Essence

A man's real faith is never contained in his creed, nor is his creed an article of his faith. The last is never adopted. This it is that permits him to smile ever, and to live even as bravely as he does. And yet he clings anxiously to his creed, as to a straw, thinking that that does him good service because his sheet anchor does not drag.

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Faith, Real, Men
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.71, Delphi Classics

The object of love expands and grows before us to eternity, until it includes all that is lovely, and we become all that can love.

Henry David Thoreau
Beauty, Love Is, Lovely
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1758, Delphi Classics

What a battle a man must fight everywhere to maintain his standing army of thoughts, and march with them in orderly array throughthe always hostile country! How many enemies there are to sane thinking! Every soldier has succumbed to them before he enlists for those other battles.

Henry David Thoreau
Country, Army, Fighting
Henry David Thoreau (2017). “HENRY DAVID THOREAU – The Man, The Philosopher & The Trailblazer (Illustrated): Biographies, Memoirs, Autobiographical Books & Personal Letters (Including Walden, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, The Maine Woods, Cape Cod, A Yankee in Canada…)”, p.1381, e-artnow

Only what is thought, said, or done at a certain rare coincidence is good.

Henry David Thoreau
Thoughtful, Thinking, Done
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.191, Simon and Schuster

What is commonly honored with the name of Friendship is no very profound or powerful instinct. Men do not, after all, love their Friends greatly. I do not often see the farmers made seers and wise to the verge of insanity by their Friendship for one another. They are not often transfigured and translated by love in each other's presence. I do not observe them purified, refined, and elevated by the love of a man.

Henry David Thoreau
Friendship, Wise, Wisdom
Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.110, Penguin

The life of a wise man is most of all extemporaneous, for he lives out of an eternity which includes all time.

Henry David Thoreau
Wise, Wisdom, Men
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.927, Delphi Classics

My Friend is that one whom I can associate with my choicest thought.

Henry David Thoreau
Friendship, Thinking, My Friends
Henry David Thoreau (2014). “A Week On The Concord And Merrimack Rivers (Annotated Edition)”, p.229, Jazzybee Verlag

In love and friendship the imagination is as much exercised as the heart; and if either is outraged the other will be estranged. It is commonly the imagination which is wounded first, rather than the heart,--it is so much the more sensitive.

Henry David Thoreau
Friendship, Heart, Imagination
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1138, Delphi Classics

The richest gifts we can bestow are the least marketable. We hate the kindness which we understand.

Henry David Thoreau
Friendship, Kindness, Hate
Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.49, Jazzybee Verlag

I think that Nature meant kindly when she made our brothers few. However, my voice is still for peace.

Henry David Thoreau
Friendship, Peace, Nature
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1710, Delphi Classics

Perhaps the facts most astounding and most real are never communicated by man to man.

Henry David Thoreau
Real, Communication, Men
Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.272, Penguin

I have found it a singular luxury to talk across the pond to a companion on the opposite side.

Henry David Thoreau
Communication, Opposites, Luxury
Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.220

Books are for the most part willfully and hastily written, as parts of a system to supply a want real or imagined.

Henry David Thoreau
Real, Book, Want
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.84, Delphi Classics

Literary gentlemen, editors, and critics think that they know how to write, because they have studied grammar and rhetoric; but they are egregiously mistaken. The art of composition is as simple as the discharge of a bullet from a rifle, and its masterpieces imply an infinitely greater force behind them.

Henry David Thoreau
Art, Writing, Simple
Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.389, Penguin

The mode of founding a college is, commonly, to get up a subscription of dollars and cents, and then, following blindly the principles of a division of labor to its extreme,--a principle which should never be followed but with circumspection,--to call in a contractor who makes this a subject of speculation,... and for these oversights successive generations have to pay.

Henry David Thoreau
Education, College, Division Of Labor
Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.39, Graphic Arts Books

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