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Henry David Thoreau Quotes
«Visit the Navy-Yard, and behold a marine, such a man as an American government can make, or such as it can make a man with its black arts / a mere shadow and reminiscence of humanity, a man laid out alive and standing, and already, as one may say, buried under arms with funeral accompaniments.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
accompaniment, American art, American government, black art, buried, funeral, In the Navy, Marine, Marines, navy, reminiscence, reminiscences, under arms, yard
«I believe that what so saddens the reformer is not his sympathy with his fellows in distress, but, though he be the holiest son of God, is his private ail. Let this be righted, let the spring come to him, the morning rise over his couch, and he will forsake his generous companions without apology.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
ail, apology, companions, couch, distress, forsake, holiest, reformer, righted, saddened, saddening, saddens, Son of, Son of God
«I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
cut corners, rout, Spartan, swath
«Is not disease the rule of existence? There is not a lily pad floating on the river but has been riddled by insects. Almost every shrub and tree has its gall, oftentimes esteemed its chief ornament and hardly to be distinguished from the fruit. If misery loves company, misery has company enough. Now, at midsummer, find me a perfect leaf or fruit.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
distinguished, esteemed, floating, gall, insects, leaf, lily, midsummer, oftentimes, ornament, pad, padded, riddled, shrub, shrubs
«After all the field of battle possesses many advantages over the drawing-room. There at least is no room for pretension or excessive ceremony, no shaking of hands or rubbing of noses, which make one doubt your sincerity, but hearty as well as hard hand-play. It at least exhibits one of the faces of humanity, the former only a mask.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
advantages, ceremony, drawing room, excessive, exhibits, field of battle, noses, pretension, rubbing, shaking, The Faces
«It is easier to sail many thousand miles through cold and storm and cannibals, in a government ship, with five hundred men and boys to assist one, than it is to explore the private sea, the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean of one's being alone. It is not worth the while to go round the world to count the cats in Zanzibar.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
assist, Atlantic Ocean, cannibal, cannibals, five hundred, Pacific, Pacific Ocean, Zanzibar
«The Canadians of those days, at least, possessed a roving spirit of adventure which carried them further, in exposure to hardship and danger, than ever the New England colonist went, and led them, though not to clear and colonize the wilderness, yet»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Adventure,
Country
| Keywords:
Canadians, colonist, colonists, colonize, colonized, exposure, New England, rove, Roves, roving, the Wilderness
«How earthy old people become -moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets.»
«A man may acquire a taste for wine or brandy, and so lose his love for water, but should we not pity him»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Drinking
| Keywords:
acquired taste