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There is always a present and extant life, be it better or worse, which all combine to uphold.

There is always a present and extant life, be it better or worse, which all combine to uphold.

Henry David Thoreau
Literature, Life Is
Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.90, Xist Publishing

Time & Co. are, after all, the only quite honest and trustworthy publishers that we know.

Henry David Thoreau
Literature, Honest, Trustworthy
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1722, Delphi Classics

All nations love the same jests and tales, Jews, Christians, and Mahometans, and the same translated suffice for all.

Henry David Thoreau
Christian, Literature, Tales
Henry David Thoreau (1873). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.67

There never was and is not likely soon to be a nation of philosophers, nor am I certain it is desirable that there should be.

Henry David Thoreau
Literature, Philosopher, Should
Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.183, Penguin

It is not in vain that man speaks to man. This is the value of literature.

Henry David Thoreau
Communication, Men, Literature
Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.356, Penguin

The newspapers, I perceive, devote some of their columns specially to politics or government without charge; and this, one would say, is all that saves it; but as I love literature and to some extent the truth also, I never read those columns at any rate. I do not wish to blunt my sense of right so much.

Henry David Thoreau
Government, Wish, Literature
Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.226, Graphic Arts Books

Faith never makes a confession.

Henry David Thoreau
Literature, Confession
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1688, Delphi Classics

Everything that is printed and bound in a book contains some echo at least of the best that is in literature.

Henry David Thoreau
Book, Echoes, Literature
Henry David Thoreau (2012). “Thoreau's Book of Quotations”, p.50, Courier Corporation

We are underbred and low-lived and illiterate; and in this respect I confess I do not make any very broad distinction between theilliterateness of my townsman who cannot read at all and the illiterateness of him who has learned to read only what is for children and feeble intellects. We should be as good as the worthies of antiquity, but partly by first knowing how good they were.

Henry David Thoreau
Children, Knowing, Literature
Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.169

We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being.

Henry David Thoreau
Literature, Treats, Esteem
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1631, Delphi Classics

Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men.

Henry David Thoreau
Men, Noble, Literature
Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.72, Graphic Arts Books

I do not know where to find in any literature, whether ancient or modern, any adequate account of that Nature with which I am acquainted.

Henry David Thoreau
Nature, Literature, Adequate
Henry David Thoreau (1960). “H. D. Thoreau, a Writer's Journal”, p.25, Courier Corporation

I have been as sincere a worshipper of Aurora as the Greeks.

Henry David Thoreau
Greek, Literature, Aurora
Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.201, Penguin

How can any man be weak who dares to be at all?

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

May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love!

Henry David Thoreau
Love, Sweet, Literature
Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.164, Jazzybee Verlag

There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.

Henry David Thoreau
Literature, Good Nature, Bottom
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1138, Delphi Classics

I have found that hollow, which even I had relied on for solid.

Henry David Thoreau
Niece, Literature, Found
Henry David Thoreau (2000). “Walden and Other Writings: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.721, Modern Library

Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through, and you could go in the back way.

Henry David Thoreau
Yards, Literature, Way
Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.403, Penguin

How many things there are concerning which we might well deliberate whether we had better know them.

Henry David Thoreau
Deep Life, Literature, Might
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Selected Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.237, Simon and Schuster

I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.

Henry David Thoreau
Men, Literature, Common
Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.112, Jazzybee Verlag

It is too late to be studying Hebrew; it is more important to understand even the slang of today.

Henry David Thoreau
Important, Too Late, Literature
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Selected Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.167, Simon and Schuster

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