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«I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
alight, alighted, alights, circumstance, distinguished, epaulet, epaulets, hoe, hoed, hoeing, shoulder, sparrow, Sparrows, The Sparrow, village, worn
«In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
aim, fail, had better, high, hit, hit man, immediately, in the long run, long run, run, take aim, therefore, The Long, The Long Run, though
«I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
abroad, chambering, Chambers, companion, companionable, for the most part, Let Me Alone, lonely, solitude, stay, working
«To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning»
«How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
All American, American, American government, answer, associated, associating, behave, disgrace, disgraced, disgraces, government, How does, The American
«Most are engaged in business the greater part of their lives, because the soul abhors a vacuum and they have not discovered any continuous employment for man's nobler faculties»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Business,
Living
| Keywords:
abhorring, abhors, continuous, employment, engaged, faculties, nobler, vacuum
«Yet some can be patriotic who have no self-respect, and sacrifice the greater to the less. They love the soil which makes their graves, but have no sympathy with the spirit which may still animate their clay. Patriotism is a maggot in their heads.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
animate, animates, clay, Graves, No self, patriotic, patriotism, self respect, soil, sympathy
«The language of friendship is not words but meanings.»
«A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
afford, afforded, affording, alone, in proportion to, let alone, Let Me Alone, numb, number, proportion, proportioned, rich, rich in
«One must be out-of-doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
aimless, ballast, out-of-door, out of doors, relaxation, sentiment, wholesome
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