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Nature confounds her summer distinctions at this season. The heavens seem to be nearer the earth. The elements are less reserved and distinct. Water turns to ice, rain to snow. The day is but a Scandinavian night. The

Nature confounds her summer distinctions at this season. The heavens seem to be nearer the earth. The elements are less reserved and distinct. Water turns to ice, rain to snow. The day is but a Scandinavian night. The winter is an arctic summer.

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Summer, Nature, Rain
Henry David Thoreau (1992). “The Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.108, Rowman & Littlefield

A cold and searching wind drives away all contagion, and nothing can withstand it but what has a virtue in it, and accordingly, whatever we meet with in cold and bleak places, as the tops of mountains, we respect for a sort of sturdy innocence, a Puritan toughness. All things beside seem to be called in for shelter, and what stays out must be part of the original frame of the universe, and of such valor as God himself.

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Winter, Wind, Mountain
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1007, Delphi Classics

A healthy man, indeed, is the complement of the seasons, and in winter, summer is in his heart.

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Summer, Heart, Health
Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.47, Penguin

The wonderful purity of nature at this season is a most pleasing fact.... In the bare fields and tinkling woods, see what virtue survives. In the coldest and bleakest places, the warmest charities still maintain a foothold.

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

How wholesome winter is, seen far or near; how good, above all mere sentimental, warm-blooded, short-lived, soft-hearted, moral goodness, commonly so called. Give me the goodness which has forgotten its own deeds,--which God has seen to be good, and let be.

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Winter, Hypocrisy, Giving
Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.284, Jazzybee Verlag

Winter is the time for study, you know, and the colder it is the more studious we are.

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Winter, Students, Study
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1705, Delphi Classics

The change from storm and winter to serene and mild weather, from dark and sluggish hours to bright and elastic ones, is a memorable crisis which all things proclaim. It is seemingly instantaneous at last.

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Spring, Memorable, Winter
Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walden”, p.263, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

You may tell by looking at any twig of the forest, ay, at your very wood-pile, whether its winter is past or not.

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Winter, Past, May
Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walden”, p.263, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

We go on dating from Cold Fridays and Great Snows; but a little colder Friday, or greater snow would put a period to man's existence on the globe.

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Friday, Winter, Men
Henry David Thoreau (2004). “Walden: 150th Anniversary Illustrated Edition of the American Classic”, p.247, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

One who knew how to appropriate the true value of this world would be the poorest man in it. The poor rich man! all he has is whathe has bought.

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Men, Would Be, World
Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.249, Xist Publishing

It would surpass the powers of a well man nowadays to take up his bed and walk, and I should certainly advise a sick one to lay down his bed and run.

Henry David Thoreau
Running, Health, Men
Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.43, Cosimo, Inc.

Furniture! Thank God, I can sit and I can stand without the aid of a furniture warehouse.

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Simplicity, Thank God, Furniture
Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.48, Graphic Arts Books

The customs of some savage nations might, perchance, be profitably imitated by us, for they at least go through the semblance of casting their slough annually; they have the idea of the thing, whether they have the reality or not.

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Reality, Ideas, Savages
Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.189, Penguin

Let us consider under what disadvantages Science has hitherto labored before we pronounce thus confidently on her progress.

Henry David Thoreau
Science, Progress, Disadvantages
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.236, Simon and Schuster

It will be seen that we contemplate a time when man's will shall be law to the physical world, and he shall no longer be deterredby such abstractions as time and space, height and depth, weight and hardness, but shall indeed be the lord of creation.

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Science, Men, Power
Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Miscellanies (Annotated Edition)”, p.23, Jazzybee Verlag

If the condition of things which we were made for is not yet, what were any reality which we can substitute? We will not be shipwrecked on a vain reality.

Henry David Thoreau
Reality, Vain, Made
Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.79, Yale University Press

All that are printed and bound are not books; they do not necessarily belong to letters, but are oftener to be ranked with the other luxuries and appendages of civilized life. Base wares are palmed off under a thousand disguises.

Henry David Thoreau
Book, Luxury, Letters
Henry David Thoreau (2000). “Walden and Other Writings: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.376, Modern Library

The books for young people say a great deal about the selection of Friends; it is because they really have nothing to say about Friends. They mean associates and confidants merely.

Henry David Thoreau
Friends, Book, Mean
Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.112, Penguin

Indeed, the best books have a use, like sticks and stones, which is above or beside their design, not anticipated in the preface,not concluded in the appendix. Even Virgil's poetry serves a very different use to me today from what it did to his contemporaries. It has often an acquired and accidental value merely, proving that man is still man in the world.

Henry David Thoreau
Book, Men, Design
Henry David Thoreau (2017). “The Most Alive is the Wildest – Thoreau’s Complete Works on Living in Harmony with the Nature: Walden, Walking, Night and Moonlight, The Highland Light, A Winter Walk, The Maine Woods, A Walk to Wachusett, The Landlord, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, Autumnal Tints, Wild Apples…”, p.292, e-artnow

We cannot see anything until we are possessed with the idea of it, take it into our heads,--and then we can hardly see anything else.

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Ideas, Experience, Observation
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Selected Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.203, Simon and Schuster

The scholar is not apt to make his most familiar experience come gracefully to the aid of his expression.

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Expression, Experience, Aids
Henry David Thoreau (2014). “A Week On The Concord And Merrimack Rivers (Annotated Edition)”, p.90, Jazzybee Verlag

The necessity of labor and conversation with many men and things to the scholar is rarely well remembered.

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Inspirational, Men, Experience
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.516, Simon and Schuster

The experience of every past moment but belies the faith of each present.

Henry David Thoreau
Past, Experience, Moments
Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.73, Jazzybee Verlag

It is after we get home that we really go over the mountain, if ever.

Henry David Thoreau
Home, Experience, Mountain
Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1865). “Letters to Various Persons”, p.165

That is mere sentimentality that lies abed by day and thinks itself white, far from the tan and callus of experience.

Henry David Thoreau
Lying, Thinking, White
Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walking: Top Essays”, p.2, 谷月社

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