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Henry David Thoreau Quotes

«I did not see why the schoolmaster should be taxed to support the priest, and not the priest the schoolmaster»
«Only the traveling is good which reveals to me the value of home and enables me to enjoy it better.»
«It requires nothing less than a chivalric feeling to sustain a conversation with a lady.»
«A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rare. For the most part we miss the hue and fragrance of the thought; as if we could be satisfied with the dews of the morning or evening without their colors, or the heavens without their azure.»
«To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but to so love wisdom as to live according to its dictates a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity and trust.»
«Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.»
«Most men would feel insulted if it were proposed to employ them in throwing stones over a wall, and then in throwing them back, merely that they might earn their wages. But many are no more worthily employed now.»
«Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them»
«To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of the arts.»
«I suppose you think that persons who are as old as your father and myself are always thinking about very grave things, but I know that we are meditating the same old themes that we did when we were ten years old, only we go more gravely about it.»