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Frequently also some fair-weather finery ripped off a vessel by a storm near the coast was nailed up against an outhouse. I saw fastened to a shed near the lighthouse a long new sign with the words ANGLO SAXON on it in

Frequently also some fair-weather finery ripped off a vessel by a storm near the coast was nailed up against an outhouse. I saw fastened to a shed near the lighthouse a long new sign with the words "ANGLO SAXON" on it in large gilt letters, as if it were a useless part which the ship could afford to lose, or which the sailors had discharged at the same time with the pilot. But it interested somewhat as if it had been a part of the Argo, clipped off in passing through the Symplegades.

Henry David Thoreau
Sea, Weather, Long
Henry David Thoreau (1866). “Cape Cod”, p.128

The true reformer does not want time, nor money, nor coöperation, nor advice. What is time but the stuff delay is made of? And depend upon it, our virtue will not live on the interest of our money. He expects no income, but outgoes; so soon as we begin to count the cost, the cost begins. And as for advice, the information floating in the atmosphere of society is as evanescent and unserviceable to him as gossamer for clubs of Hercules.

Henry David Thoreau
Advice, Atmosphere, Reform
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.234, Simon and Schuster

The Mississippi, the Ganges, and the Nile,... the Rocky Mountains, the Himmaleh, and Mountains of the Moon, have a kind of personal importance in the annals of the world.

Henry David Thoreau
Moon, Mountain, World
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.25, Delphi Classics

I have thoroughly tried school-keeping, and found that my expenses were in proportion, or rather out of proportion, to my income,for I was obliged to dress and train, not to say think and believe, accordingly, and I lost my time into the bargain. As I did not teach for the good of my fellow-men, but simply for a livelihood, this was a failure. I have tried trade; but I found that it would take ten years to get under way in that, and that then I should probably be on my way to the devil. I was actually afraid that I might by that time be doing what is called a good business.

Henry David Thoreau
Believe, School, Men
Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.50, Graphic Arts Books

Genius is a light which makes the darkness visible, like the lightning's flash, which perchance shatters the temple of knowledge itself.

Henry David Thoreau
Light, Darkness, Genius
Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.405, Penguin

I love a broad margin to my life. Sometimes, in a summer morning, having taken my accustomed bath, I sat in my sunny doorway from sunrise til noon, rapt in a revery.

Henry David Thoreau
Summer, Morning, Taken
Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience: Top American Literary”, p.70, 谷月社

What shall we think of a government to which all the truly brave and just men in the land are enemies, standing between it and those whom it oppresses? A government that pretends to be Christian and crucifies a million Christs every day!

Henry David Thoreau
Christian, Jesus, Men
Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.249, Graphic Arts Books

The morning, which is the most memorable season of the day, is the awakening hour. Then there is least somnolence in us; and for an hour, at least, some part of us awakes which slumbers all the rest of the day and night... All memorable events, I should say, transpire in morning time and in a morning atmosphere. The Vedas say, “All intelligences awake with the morning.

Henry David Thoreau
Morning, Memorable, Night
Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Thoreau on Nature: Sage Words on Finding Harmony with the Natural World”, p.40, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

If we cannot sing of faith and triumph, we will sing our despair. We will be that kind of bird. There are day owls, and there arenight owls, and each is beautiful and even musical while about its business.

Henry David Thoreau
Beautiful, Faith, Bird
Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.177, Jazzybee Verlag

All nations love the same jests and tales, Jews, Christians, and Mahometans, and the same translated suffice for all.

Henry David Thoreau
Christian, Literature, Tales
Henry David Thoreau (1873). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.67

The repugnance to animal food is not the effect of experience, but is an instinct. It appeared more beautiful to live low and farehard in many respects; and though I never did so, I went far enough to please my imagination.

Henry David Thoreau
Beautiful, Animal, Imagination
Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.131, Graphic Arts Books

A man can suffocate on courtesy.

Henry David Thoreau
Men, Courtesy

For it matters not how small the beginning may seem to be: what is once well done is done forever.

Henry David Thoreau
Inspirational, Success, Forever
"The Essays of Henry D. Thoreau: Selected and Edited by Lewis Hyde".

A Friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us.

Henry David Thoreau
Appreciate, Pay, Compliment
Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.190, Xist Publishing

Begin where you are and such as you are, without aiming mainly to become of more worth, and with kindness aforethought, go about doing good.

Henry David Thoreau
Kindness, Doing Good, Where You Are
Henry David Thoreau (2012). “Walden; Or, Life in the Woods”, p.48, Courier Corporation

I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live, and could not spare any more time for that one.

Henry David Thoreau
Inspirational, Woods, Reason
Henry David Thoreau (2004). “Walden: 150th Anniversary Illustrated Edition of the American Classic”, p.314, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

I found in myself, and still find, an instinct toward a higher, or, as it is named, spiritual life, as do most men, and another toward a primitive rank and savage one, and I reverence them both. I love the wild not less than the good.

Henry David Thoreau
Love, Spiritual, Men
Henry David Thoreau (1995). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods”, p.136, Courier Corporation

The church is a sort of hospital for men's souls and as full of quackery as the hospital for their bodies.

Henry David Thoreau
Men, Soul, Church
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.70, Delphi Classics

But man's capacities have never been measured; nor are we to judge of what he can do by any precedents, so little have been tried.

Henry David Thoreau
Learning, Men, Judging
Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.158, Penguin

The mason asks but a narrow shelf to spring his brick from; man requires only an infinitely narrower one to spring his arch of faith from.

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

What wisdom, what warning can prevail against gladness? There is no law so strong that a little gladness may not transgress.

Henry David Thoreau
Happiness, Strong, Law
Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.103, Courier Corporation

What right have I to grieve, who have not ceased to wonder?

Henry David Thoreau
Heartbreak, Grief, Grieving
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1631, Delphi Classics

I have lived some thirty years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors.

Henry David Thoreau
Life, Senior, Learning
'Walden' (1854) 'Economy'

The best thing a man can do for his culture when he is rich is to endeavor to carry out those schemes which he entertained when he was poor

Henry David Thoreau
Men, Culture, Rich
Henry David Thoreau (2004). “Walden and Civil Disobedience”, p.375, Simon and Schuster

It is not all books that are as dull as their readers.

Henry David Thoreau
Self Esteem, Book, Reading
Henry David Thoreau (2004). “On Reading: From "Walden"”, p.9, Princeton University Press

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