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Book: Walden, or Life in the Woods
Quotes of Book: Walden, or Life in the Woods
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  1. Henry David Thoreau _ Walden, or Life in the Woods

    If it is necessary, omit one bridge over the river, go round a little there, and throw one arch at least over the darker gulf of ignorance which surrounds us.
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  2. Henry David Thoreau _ Walden, or Life in the Woods

    The rest pay an annual tax for this outside garment of all, become indispensable summer and winter, which would buy a village of Indian wigwams, but now helps to keep them poor as long as they live.
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  3. Henry David Thoreau _ Walden, or Life in the Woods

    The commonest sense is the sense of men asleep, which they express by snoring.
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  4. Henry David Thoreau _ Walden, or Life in the Woods

    {"what danger is there if you don't think of any?"},
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  5. Henry David Thoreau _ Walden, or Life in the Woods

    If it were worth the while to settle in those parts near to the Pleiades or the Hyades, to Aldebaran or Altair, then I was really there, or at an equal remoteness from the life which I had left behind, dwindled and twinkling with as fine a ray to my nearest neighbor, and to be seen only in moonless nights by him. Such was that part of creation where I had squatted;
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  6. Henry David Thoreau _ Walden, or Life in the Woods

    To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise, and one that will task the reader more than any exercise which the customs of the day esteem.
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  7. Henry David Thoreau _ Walden, or Life in the Woods

    To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour.
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  8. Henry David Thoreau _ Walden, or Life in the Woods

    In short, I am convinced, both by faith and experience, that to maintain one's self on this earth is not a hardship but a pastime, if we will live simply and wisely; as the pursuits of the simpler nations are still the sports of the more artificial. It is not necessary that a man should earn his living by the sweat of his brow, unless he sweats easier than I do.
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  9. Henry David Thoreau _ Walden, or Life in the Woods

    A taste for the beautiful is most cultivated out of doors
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  10. Henry David Thoreau _ Walden, or Life in the Woods

    A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener. So our prospects brighten on the influx of better thoughts. We should be blessed if we lived in the present always, and took advantage of every accident that befell us."
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  11. Henry David Thoreau _ Walden, or Life in the Woods

    There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root."
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