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A man may acquire a taste for wine or brandy, and so lose his love for water, but should we not pity him.

A man may acquire a taste for wine or brandy, and so lose his love for water, but should we not pity him.

Henry David Thoreau
Wine, Men, Water
Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.156, Courier Corporation

The era of wild apples will soon be over. I wander through old orchards of great extent, now all gone to decay, all of native fruit which for the most part went to the cider mill. But since the temperance reform and the general introduction of grafted fruit, no wild apples, such as I see everywhere in deserted pastures, and where the woods have grown up among them, are set out. I fear that he who walks over these hills a century hence will not know the pleasure of knocking off wild apples.

Henry David Thoreau
Apples, Decay, Cider
Henry David Thoreau, Joseph O. Valentine, Thoreau Society (2001). “Thoreau on Land: Nature's Canvas”, p.77, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

I learned to regard man as an inhabitant, or a part and parcel of nature, rather than a member of society.

Henry David Thoreau
Men, Members, Regard

As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.

Henry David Thoreau
Life, Success, Agreement
'Walden' (1854) 'Economy'

I would give all the wealth of the world, and all the deeds of all the heroes, for one true vision.

Henry David Thoreau
Inspirational, Hero, Giving
Henry David Thoreau, Carl Hovde (1980). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.140, Princeton University Press

The ancient philosophers, Chinese, Hindu, Persian, and Greek, were a class than which none has been poorer in outward riches, none so rich inward.

Henry David Thoreau
Class, Greek, Chinese

This world is a place of business. What an infinite bustle!

Henry David Thoreau
World, Infinite, This World

I would not have any one adopt my mode of living on any account.

Henry David Thoreau
Living On, Accounts

If you take this life to be simply what old religious folks pretend (I mean the effete, gone to seed in a drought, mere human galls stung by the devil once), then all your joy and serenity is reduced to grinning and bearing it. The fact is, you have got to take the world on your shoulders like Atlas, and "put along" with it. You will do this for an idea's sake, and your success will be in proportion to your devotion to ideas. It may make your back ache occasionally, but you will have the satisfaction of hanging it or twirling it to suit yourself.

Henry David Thoreau
Religious, Mean, Ideas
Henry David Thoreau (1894). “The Writings of Henry David Thoreau: With Bibliographical Introductions and Full Indexes”

What exercise is to the body, employment is to the mind and morals.

Henry David Thoreau
Work, Exercise, Mind
Henry David Thoreau, Bob Blaisdell (2011). “Thoreau: A Book of Quotations”, p.32, Courier Corporation

The intercourse of the sexes, I have dreamed, is incredibly beautiful, too fair to be remembered. I have had thoughts about it, but they are among the most fleeting and irrecoverable in my experience.

Henry David Thoreau
Beautiful, Sex, Experience
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1143, Delphi Classics

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.

Henry David Thoreau
Inspirational, Optimistic, Heartache
Henry David Thoreau (1995). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods”, p.59, Courier Corporation

Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?

Henry David Thoreau
Grief, Fall, Men
Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.251, Xist Publishing

I cannot easily buy a blank-book to write thoughts in; they are commonly ruled for dollars and cents.

Henry David Thoreau
Book, Writing, Dollars

Your religion is where your love is.

Henry David Thoreau
Love, Life, Love Life

I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another.

Henry David Thoreau
Two, Mind, Legs
Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.85, Graphic Arts Books

As to conforming outwardly and living your own life inwardly, I do not think much of that.

Henry David Thoreau
Life, Thinking, Conformity
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1745, Delphi Classics

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.

Henry David Thoreau
Motivational, Respect, Law
Civil Disobedience (1849)

Love your life, poor as it is.

Henry David Thoreau
Love You, Love Your Life, Poor

Law never made men a whit more just.

Henry David Thoreau
Men, Law, Made
Henry David Thoreau (1942). “Civil Disobedience”, p.3, Hayes Barton Press

Why does it [government] always crucify Christ, and excommunicate Copernicus and Luther, and pronounce Washington and Franklin rebels?

Henry David Thoreau
Government, Rebel, Doe
Henry David Thoreau, Barry Andrews (2005). “True Harvest: Readings from Henry David Thoreau for Every Day of the Year”, p.298, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

I have an immense appetite for solitude, like an infant for sleep, and if I don't get enough for this year, I shall cry all the next.

Henry David Thoreau
Sleep, Years, Solitude
Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.242, Jazzybee Verlag

I love you not as something private and personal, which is my own, but as something universal and worthy of love which I have found.

Henry David Thoreau
Love, Friendship, Found

Glances of true beauty can be seen in the faces of those who live in true meekness.

Henry David Thoreau
Beauty, Faces, Glances
Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.83, Heron Dance Press

To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.

Henry David Thoreau
Women, Sisterhood, Media
Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.61, Cosimo, Inc.

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