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Henry David Thoreau Quotes

«Sobriety, severity, and self-respect are the foundations of all true sociality.»
«Our circumstances answer to our expectations and the demand of our natures.»
«The way by which you may get money almost without exception leads downward.»
«Books, not which afford us a cowering enjoyment, but in which each thought is of unusual daring; such as an idle man cannot read, and a timid one would not be entertained by, which even make us dangerous to existing institution /such call I good books.»
«It is not so desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right»
«Public opinion is a weak tyrant, compared with our private opinion - what a man thinks of himself, that is which determines, or rather indicates his fate»
«There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages»
«The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it.»
«Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written»
«It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.»