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In order to die, you must first have lived.

In order to die, you must first have lived.

Henry David Thoreau
Order, Firsts, Dies
Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Civil Disobedience”, p.74, Broadview Press

How can you expect the birds to sing when their groves are cut down?

Henry David Thoreau
Cutting, Bird, Grove
Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Walden”, p.139, Xist Publishing

A nation may be ever so civilized and yet lack wisdom.

Henry David Thoreau
May, Civilized, Nations

An efficient and valuable man does what he can, whether the community pay him for it or not.

Henry David Thoreau
Men, Community, Doe
Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.216, Graphic Arts Books

There should always be some flowering and maturing of the fruits of nature in the cooking process.

Henry David Thoreau
Flower, Cooking, Fruit
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.179, Courier Corporation

Everything may serve a lower as well as a higher use.

Henry David Thoreau
Use, May, Transcendentalism
Henry David Thoreau (2004). “Walden and Other Writings”, p.410, Bantam Classics

The kind uncles and aunts of the race are more esteemed than its true spiritual fathers and mothers.

Henry David Thoreau
Mother, Spiritual, Uncles
Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.194, Penguin

He who receives an injury is to some extent an accomplice of the wrong-doer.

Henry David Thoreau
Doers, Injury, Accomplices
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.234, Delphi Classics

The sugar maple is remarkable for its clean ankle. The groves of these trees looked like vast forest sheds, their branches stopping short at a uniform height, four or five feet from the ground, like eaves, as if they had been trimmed by art, so that you could look under and through the whole grove with its leafy canopy, as under a tent whose curtain is raised.

Henry David Thoreau
Art, Feet, Tree
Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “A Yankee in Canada: With Anti-slavery and Reform Papers”, p.6

The country is an archipelago of lakes,--the lake-country of New England.

Henry David Thoreau
Country, Lakes, England
Henry David Thoreau (2014). “The Maine Woods (Annotated Edition)”, p.30, Jazzybee Verlag

The largest pond is as sensitive to atmospheric changes as the globule of mercury in its tube.

Henry David Thoreau
Change, Lakes, Ponds
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.497, Delphi Classics

So far as inland discovery was concerned, the adventurous spirit of the English was that of sailors who land but for a day, and their enterprise the enterprise of traders.

Henry David Thoreau
Discovery, Land, Sailor
Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Excursions and Poems : The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume V (of 20)”, p.68, HOUGHTON MIFFLIN AND COMPANY

Are not all finite beings better pleased with motions relative than absolute?

Henry David Thoreau
Finite, Absolutes, Relative
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.222, Simon and Schuster

The newest is but the oldest made visible to our senses.

Henry David Thoreau
Made, Visible, Senses
Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.108, Xist Publishing

It is for no particular item in the tax-bill that I refuse to pay it. I simply wish to refuse allegiance to the State, to withdrawand stand aloof from it effectually. I do not care to trace the course of my dollar, if I could, till it buys a man or a musket to shoot one with,--the dollar is innocent,--but I am concerned to trace the effects of my allegiance. In fact, I quietly declare war with the State, after my fashion, though I will still make what use and get what advantage of her I can, as is usual in such cases.

Henry David Thoreau
Fashion, War, Men
Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Miscellanies (Annotated Edition)”, p.94, Jazzybee Verlag

There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself; but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.

Henry David Thoreau
Believe, Advice, Example
Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.365, Penguin

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.

Henry David Thoreau
Beautiful, Book, Men
Henry David Thoreau (1960). “H. D. Thoreau, a Writer's Journal”, p.93, Courier Corporation

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Henry David Thoreau
Travel, Journey, Wish
Henry David Thoreau (1995). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods”, p.209, Courier Corporation

I was more independent than any farmer in Concord, for I was not anchored to a house or farm, but could follow the bent of my genius, which is a very crooked one, every moment.

Henry David Thoreau
Independent, Agriculture, House
Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.42, Graphic Arts Books

If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?

Henry David Thoreau
Work, Humble, Mean
Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.366, Penguin

So thoroughly and sincerely are we compelled to live, reverencing our life, and denying the possibility of change. This is the only way, we say; but there are as many ways as there can be drawn radii from one centre. All change is a miracle to contemplate; but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant.

Henry David Thoreau
Possibility Of Change, Miracle, Way
Henry David Thoreau (2016). “The Illustrated Walden: Thoreau Bicentennial Edition”, p.9, Penguin

We hear and apprehend only what we already half know.

Henry David Thoreau
Education, Knowledge, Half
Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.212, Courier Corporation

To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning. It matters not what the clocks say or the attitudes and labors of men. Morning is when I am awake and there is a dawn in me.

Henry David Thoreau
Morning, Attitude, Men
"Walden".

No man ever followed his genius till it misled him.

Henry David Thoreau
Men, Genius, Misled
"The Portable Thoreau".

Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies, and not be the biggest pygmie that he can? Let everyone mind his own business, and endeavor to be what he was made

Henry David Thoreau
Men, Race, Mind
Henry David Thoreau (2004). “Walden”, p.343, Collector's Library

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