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Staying in the house breeds a sort of insanity always. Every house is, in this sense, a hospital.

Staying in the house breeds a sort of insanity always. Every house is, in this sense, a hospital.

Henry David Thoreau
House, Insanity, Staying
Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.299, Yale University Press

Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them.

Henry David Thoreau
House, Literature, Property Ownership
Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Walden”, p.26, Xist Publishing

The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the alms-house as brightly as from the rich man's abode.

Henry David Thoreau
Reflection, Men, House
Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Walden”, p.232, Xist Publishing

What is sour in the house a bracing walk in the woods makes sweet.

Henry David Thoreau
Sweet, House, Woods

Nowadays almost all man's improvements, so called, as the building of houses and the cutting down of the forest and of all large trees, simply deform the landscape, and make it more and more tame and cheap.

Henry David Thoreau
Cutting, Men, House
Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walking: Top Essays”, p.3, 谷月社

I have a great deal of company in my house; especially in the morning, when nobody calls.

Henry David Thoreau
Good Morning, Reality, House
"Walden, Or, Life in the Woods".

I now first began to inhabit my house, I may say, when I began to use it for warmth as well as shelter.

Henry David Thoreau
House, Shelter, May
Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Walden”, p.173, Xist Publishing

It is surprising how many great men and women a small house will contain.

Henry David Thoreau
Men, House, Company
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.85, Simon and Schuster

At a certain season of our life we are accustomed to consider every spot as the possible site of a house.

Henry David Thoreau
House, Site, Spots
Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.128

I see young men, my townsmen, whose misfortune it is to have inherited farms, houses, barns, cattle, and farming tools; for these are more easily acquired than got rid of. Better if they had been born in the open pasture and suckled by a wolf, that they might have seen with clearer eyes what field they were called to labor in. Who made them serfs of the soil? Why should they eat their sixty acres, when man is condemned to eat only his peck of dirt? Why should they begin digging their graves as soon as they are born?

Henry David Thoreau
Eye, Men, House
Henry David Thoreau, Nancy L. Rosenblum (1996). “Thoreau: Political Writings”, p.24, Cambridge University Press

Most men appear never to have considered what a house is, and are actually though needlessly poor all their lives because they think that they must have such a one as their neighbors have. ... Shall we always study to obtain more, and not sometimes be content with less?

Henry David Thoreau
Men, Thinking, House
Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.30, Graphic Arts Books

I have always endeavored to acquire strict business habits; they are indispensable to every man. If your trade is with the Celestial Empire, then some small counting house on the coast, in some Salem harbor, will be fixture enough.

Henry David Thoreau
Men, House, Empires
Henry David Thoreau (2004). “Walden: 150th Anniversary Illustrated Edition of the American Classic”, p.17, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

When I go out of the house for a walk, uncertain as yet whither I will bend my steps, [I] submit myself to my instinct to decide for me.

Henry David Thoreau
House, Steps, Instinct
Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.398, Penguin

A temple, you know, was anciently "an open place without a roof," whose walls served merely to shut out the world and direct the mind toward heaven; but a modern meeting-house shuts out the heavens, while it crowds the world into still closer quarters.

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Wall, Heaven, House
Henry David Thoreau, Joseph O. Valentine, Thoreau Society (2001). “Thoreau on Land: Nature's Canvas”, p.37, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

It is possible to invent a house still more convenient and luxurious than we have...but shall we always study to obtain more of these things, and not sometimes to be content with less?

Henry David Thoreau
House, Study, Sometimes

I have learned that even the smallest house can be a home.

Henry David Thoreau
Home, House, I Have Learned

East of my bean-field, across the road, lived Cato Ingraham, slave of Duncan Ingraham, Esquire, gentleman, of Concord village, whobuilt his slave a house, and gave him permission to live in Walden Woods;MCato, not Uticensis, but Concordiensis. Some say that he was a Guinea Negro. There are a few who remember his little patch among the walnuts, which he let grow up till he should be old and need them; but a younger and whiter speculator got them at last. He too, however, occupies an equally narrow house at present.

Henry David Thoreau
Growing Up, House, Gentleman

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

Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poor-house.

Henry David Thoreau
Life, Love You, House
Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Walden”, p.232, Xist Publishing

There is one thought for the field, another for the house. I would have my thoughts, like wild apples, to be food for walkers, and will not warrant them to be palatable if tasted in the house.

Henry David Thoreau
Apples, House, Fields
Henry David Thoreau (2011). “The Natural History Essays”, p.202, Gibbs Smith

Homeliness is almost as great a merit in a book as in a house, if the reader would abide there. It is next to beauty, and a very high art.

Henry David Thoreau
Art, Book, House
Henry David Thoreau (2000). “Walden and Other Writings: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.387, Modern Library

It is surprising how many great men and women a small house will contain. I have had twenty-five or thirty souls, with their bodies, at once under my roof, and yet we often parted without being aware that we had come very near to one another.

Henry David Thoreau
Men, House, Soul
Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.230, Penguin

The next time the novelist rings the bell I will not stir though the meeting-house burn down.

Henry David Thoreau
House, Novelists, Fiction
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.66, Simon and Schuster

In Canada an ordinary New England house would be mistaken for the château, and while every village here contains at least severalgentlemen or "squires," there is but one to a seigniory.

Henry David Thoreau
Class, House, Ordinary
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.922, Delphi Classics

The chimney is to some extent an independent structure, standing on the ground, and rising through the house to the heavens; evenafter the house is burned it still stands sometimes, and its importance and independence are apparent.

Henry David Thoreau
Independent, House, Heaven
Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.156, Cosimo, Inc.

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