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Henry David Thoreau Quotes

«If we knew all the laws of Nature, we should need only one fact, or the description of one actual phenomenon, to infer all the particular results at that point. Now we know only a few laws, and our result is vitiated, not, of course, by any confusion or irregularity in Nature, but by our ignorance of essential elements in the calculation. Our notions of law and harmony are commonly confined to those instances which we detect; but the harmony which results from a far greater number of seemingly conflicting, but really concurring, laws, which we have not detected, is still more wonderful. The particular laws are as our points of view, as, to the traveler, a mountain outline varies with every step, and it has an infinite number of profiles, though absolutely but one form. Even when cleft or bored through it is not comprehended in its entireness.»
«Philanthropy is almost the only virtue which is sufficiently appreciated by mankind. Nay, it is greatly overrated; and it is our selfishness which overrates it.»
«Fire is the most tolerable third party»
«The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right»
«Only that day dawns to which we are awake.»
«When you knock, ask to see God - none of the servants.»
«Being is the great explainer.»
«Glorify God and enjoy him forever.»
«Men have become the fools of their tools»
«Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them.»