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I fear that we are such gods or demigods only as fauns and satyrs, the divine allied to beasts, the creatures of appetite, and that, to some extent, our very life is our disgrace.

I fear that we are such gods or demigods only as fauns and satyrs, the divine allied to beasts, the creatures of appetite, and that, to some extent, our very life is our disgrace.

Henry David Thoreau
Life, Fauns, Human Nature
Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.134, Graphic Arts Books

Thus was my first year's life in the woods completed; and the second year was similar to it. I finally left Walden September 6th,1847.

Henry David Thoreau
Life, Years, Woods
Henry David Thoreau, Laura Ross (2009). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods: Bold-faced Ideas for Living a Truly Transcendent Life”, p.416, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

Fresh curls spring from the baldest brow. There is nothing inorganic.

Henry David Thoreau
Life, Nature, Spring
Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.182, Graphic Arts Books

We are the subjects of an experiment which is not a little interesting to me.

Henry David Thoreau
Life, Interesting, Littles
Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Walden”, p.98, Xist Publishing

But perhaps a man is not required to bury himself.

Henry David Thoreau
Life, Integrity, Men
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

There is a chasm between knowledge and ignorance which the arches of science can never span.

Henry David Thoreau
Ignorance, Knowledge, Science
Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.68, Xist Publishing

What avails it that another loves you, if he does not understand you? Such love is a curse.

Henry David Thoreau
Love, Knowledge, Doe
Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.116, Penguin

We bless and curse ourselves.

Henry David Thoreau
Knowledge, Consciousness, Bless
Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.123, Penguin

The child should have the advantage of ignorance as well as of knowledge, and is fortunate if he gets his share of neglect and exposure.

Henry David Thoreau
Education, Children, Ignorance
Henry David Thoreau (1999). “Uncommon Learning: Thoreau on Education”, p.65, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Surely the writer is to address a world of laborers, and such therefore must be his own discipline.

Henry David Thoreau
Discipline, World, Addresses
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.517, Simon and Schuster

The scholar may be sure that he writes the tougher truth for the calluses on his palms. They give firmness to the sentence. Indeed, the mind never makes a great and successful effort, without a corresponding energy of the body.

Henry David Thoreau
Writing, Successful, Giving
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.517, Simon and Schuster

Paper is cheap, and authors need not now erase one book before they write another. Instead of cultivating the earth for wheat andpotatoes, they cultivate literature, and fill a place in the Republic of Letters. Or they would fain write for fame merely, as others actually raise crops of grain to be distilled into brandy.

Henry David Thoreau
Book, Writing, Paper
Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.68, Xist Publishing

A good book is the plectrum with which our else silent lyres are struck.

Henry David Thoreau
Inspirational, Book, Silent
Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.279, Xist Publishing

To the man who cherishes a secret in his breast, there is a still greater secret unexplored. Our most indifferent acts may be a matter for secrecy, but whatever we do with the utmost truthfulness and integrity, by virtue of its pureness, must be transparent as light.

Henry David Thoreau
Integrity, Men, Light
Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.222, Xist Publishing

A man cannot wheedle nor overawe his Genius. It requires to be conciliated by nobler conduct than the world demands or can appreciate.

Henry David Thoreau
Honesty, Integrity, Men
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.688, Simon and Schuster

I expect a time when, or rather an integrity by which, a man will get his coat as honestly and as perfectly fitting as a tree itsbark. Now our garments are typical of our conformity to the ways of the world, i.e., of the devil, and to some extent react on us and poison us, like that shirt which Hercules put on.

Henry David Thoreau
Integrity, Men, Tree
Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.179, Jazzybee Verlag

Every man should stand for a force which is perfectly irresistible.

Henry David Thoreau
Integrity, Power, Men
Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.133, Jazzybee Verlag

Some, it seems to me, elect their rulers for their crookedness. But I think that a straight stick makes the best cane, and an upright man the best ruler.

Henry David Thoreau
Integrity, Men, Thinking
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1225, Delphi Classics

Actually, the laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day; he cannot afford to sustain the manliest relations tomen; his labor would be depreciated in the market. He has no time to be anything but a machine.

Henry David Thoreau
Integrity, Men, Would Be
Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.12

What are men celebrating? They are all on a committee of arrangements, and hourly expect a speech from somebody. God is only the president of the day, and Webster is his orator.

Henry David Thoreau
God, Integrity, Men
Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walden”, p.276, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do not want society.

Henry David Thoreau
Integrity, Clothes, Want
Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.212, Cosimo, Inc.

Every nail driven should be as another rivet in the machine of the universe, you carrying on the work.

Henry David Thoreau
Integrity, Nails, Machines
Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.193, Graphic Arts Books

I see less difference between a city and a swamp than formerly.

Henry David Thoreau
Differences, Cities, Swamps
Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.148, Jazzybee Verlag

In the winter, warmth stands for all virtue.

Henry David Thoreau
Winter, Virtue, Warmth
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1008, Delphi Classics

There is a slumbering subterranean fire in nature which never goes out, and which no cold can chill.

Henry David Thoreau
Nature, Winter, Fire
Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.47, Penguin

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