“There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.”
— Henry David Thoreau
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I did not wish to take a
“I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.”
— Henry David Thoreau
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When I hear music, I fear no
“When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.”
— Henry David Thoreau
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All men are children, and of one
“All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.”
— Henry David Thoreau
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Faith keeps many doubts in her pay.
“Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.”
— Henry David Thoreau
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All this worldly wisdom was once the
“All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.”
— Henry David Thoreau
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What is human warfare but just this;
“What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.”
— Henry David Thoreau
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What is human warfare but just this;
“What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.”
— Henry David Thoreau
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Nothing goes by luck in composition. It
“Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.”
— Henry David Thoreau
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God reigns when we take a liberal
“God reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to us.”
— Henry David Thoreau
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Nature will bear the closest inspection. She
“Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.”
— Henry David Thoreau
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Category: nature
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