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Henry David Thoreau Quotes
«Men rush to California and Australia as if the true gold were to be found in that direction; but that is to go to the very opposite extreme to where it lies. They go prospecting farther and farther away from the true lead, and are most unfortunate when they think themselves most successful.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
Australia, California, extreme, farther, gold rush, most successful, prospecting, rush, unfortunate
«When I hear the hypercritical quarreling about grammar and style, the position of the particles, etc., etc., stretching or contracting every speaker to certain rules of theirs. I see that they forget that the first requisite and rule is that expression shall be vital and natural, as much as the voice of a brute or an interjection: first of all, mother tongue; and last of all, artificial or father tongue. Essentially your truest poetic sentence is as free and lawless as a lamb's bleat.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
artificial, bleat, bleating, brute, contracting, etc., etc, first of all, free expression, grammar, hypercritical, interjection, lamb, lawless, mother tongue, particles, poetic, quarreling, requisite, Rules of, speaker, stretching, truest
«One farmer says to me, ''You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for it furnishes nothing to make bones with;'' and so he religiously devotes a part of his day to supplying his system with the raw material of bones; walking all the while he talks behind his oxen, which, with vegetable-made bones, jerk him and his lumbering plow along in spite of every obstacle.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
farmer, food supply, furnishes, lumbering, lumbers, plow, raw material, raw materials, religiously, supplying, vegetable
«I think that we may safely trust a good deal more than we do. We may waive just so much care of ourselves as we honestly bestow elsewhere.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Seasons
| Keywords:
a good deal, bestow, elsewhere, good deal, just so, safely, waive
«Many of the phenomena of Winter are suggestive of an inexpressible tenderness and fragile delicacy. We are accustomed to hear this king described as a rude and boisterous tyrant; but with the gentleness of a lover he adorns the tresses of Summer.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
accustomed, adorns, boisterous, delicacy, fragile, inexpressible, phenomena, suggestive, suggestive of
«How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends, that we may go and meet their ideal cousins»
«This whole earth which we inhabit is but a point in space. How far apart, think you, dwell the two most distant inhabitants of yonder star, the breadth of whose disk cannot be appreciated by our instruments? Why should I feel lonely? Is not our planet in the Milky Way? This which you put seems to me not to be the most important question. What sort of space is that which separates a man from his fellows and makes him solitary? I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
appreciated, breadth, disk, inhabit, Inhabitants, instruments, milky, Milky Way, our planet, planet Earth, separates, The Milky Way, yonder
«I have lived some thirty years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Advice,
World
| Keywords:
earnest, seniors, syllable, syllables, Thirty Years
«If you are ready to leave father and mother, and brother and sister, and wife and child and friends, and never see them again, - if you have paid your debts and made your will, and settled all your affairs, and are a free man, then you are ready for»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
debts, free man, settled, sister