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Some creatures are made to see in the dark.

Some creatures are made to see in the dark.

Henry David Thoreau
Knowledge, Dark, History
Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.110, Xist Publishing

A man will not need to study history to find out what is best for his own culture.

Henry David Thoreau
Men, History, Needs
Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walden and Civil Disobedience”, p.148, Xist Publishing

The researcher is more memorable than the researched.

Henry David Thoreau
Memorable, Knowledge, History
Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.108, Xist Publishing

Going from--toward; it is the history of every one of us.

Henry David Thoreau
History
Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.73, Yale University Press

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

Henry David Thoreau
War, Men, History
Civil Disobedience (1849)

Exaggerated history is poetry, and truth referred to a new standard.

Henry David Thoreau
Truth, History, Poetry
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1089, Delphi Classics

All the events which make the annals of the nations are but the shadows of our private experiences.

Henry David Thoreau
History, Shadow, Events
Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.208, Xist Publishing

We perceive that the schemers return again and again to common sense and labor. Such is the evidence of history.

Henry David Thoreau
History, Common Sense, Reform
Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.88, Xist Publishing

In how few words, for instance, the Greeks would have told the story of Abelard and Heloise, making but a sentence of our classical dictionary.... We moderns, on the other hand, collect only the raw materials of biography and history, "memoirs to serve for a history," which is but materials to serve for a mythology.

Henry David Thoreau
Hands, History, Greek
Henry David Thoreau (1975). “Early Essays and Miscellanies”, p.60, Princeton University Press

The sun rarely shines in history, what with the dust and confusion; and when we meet with any cheering fact which implies the presence of this luminary, we excerpt and modernize it.

Henry David Thoreau
Cheer, Dust, History
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.549, Simon and Schuster

Such were garrulous and noisy eras, which no longer yield any sound, but the Grecian or silent and melodious era is ever soundingand resounding in the ears of men.

Henry David Thoreau
Men, Yield, History
Henry David Thoreau (2014). “The Illustrated "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers"”, p.392, Princeton University Press

Most events recorded in history are more remarkable than important, like eclipses of the sun and moon, by which all are attracted,but whose effects no one takes the trouble to calculate.

Henry David Thoreau
Moon, Eclipse Of The Sun, History
Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.91, Xist Publishing

There are secret articles in our treaties with the gods, of more importance than all the rest, which the historian can never know.

Henry David Thoreau
Truth, History, Secret
Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.88, Xist Publishing

History has neither the venerableness of antiquity, nor the freshness of the modern. It does as if it would go to the beginning ofthings, which natural history might with reason assume to do; but consider the Universal History, and then tell us,--when did burdock and plantain sprout first?

Henry David Thoreau
Knowledge, History, Doe
Henry David Thoreau (2017). “HENRY DAVID THOREAU - Ultimate Collection: 6 Books, 26 Essays & 60+ Poems, Including Translations. Biographies & Letters (Illustrated): Walden, The Maine Woods, Cape Cod, A Yankee in Canada, Canoeing in the Wilderness, Civil Disobedience, Slavery in Massachusetts, Life Without Principle, Excursions, Poems of Nature, Familiar Letters…”, p.1447, e-artnow

The highest condition of art is artlessness.

Henry David Thoreau
Art, Philosophy, History
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Quotable Thoreau: An A to Z Glossary of Inspiring Quotations from Henry David Thoreau”, p.17, BookBaby

It has been so written, for the most part, that the times it describes are with remarkable propriety called dark ages. They are dark, as one has observed, because we are so in the dark about them.

Henry David Thoreau
Dark, History, Age
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.125, Delphi Classics

Indeed, the Englishman's history of New England commences only when it ceases to be New France.

Henry David Thoreau
History, France, England
Henry David Thoreau (1866). “Cape Cod”, p.215

There is no history of how bad became better.

Henry David Thoreau
History, Progress, Reform
Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.357, Penguin

Both place and time were changed, and I dwelt nearer to those parts of the universe and to those eras in history which had most attracted me.

Henry David Thoreau
Change, History, Eras
Henry David Thoreau (1995). “Walden: An Annotated Edition”, p.84, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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