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«I quietly declare war with the State, after my fashion, though I will still make use and get advantage of her as I can, as is usual in such cases.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
declare, declared war, declare war, usual
«I respect not his labors, his farm where everything has its price, who would carry the landscape, who would carry his God, to market, if he could get anything for him; who goes to market for his god as it is; on whose farm nothing grows free, whose fields bear no crops, whose meadows no flowers, whose trees no fruits, but dollars.»
«A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority; it is not even a minority then; but it is irresistible when it clogs by its whole weight.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
clogged, clogging, clogs, conforms, powerless
«With all your science can you tell how it is, and whence it is, that Light comes into the soul?»
«A farmer, a hunter, a soldier, a reporter, even a philosopher, may be daunted; but nothing can deter a poet, for he is actuated by pure love. Who can predict his comings and goings? His business calls him out at all hours, even when doctors sleep.»
«We shall see but little way if we require to understand what we see. How few things can a man measure with the tape of his understanding! How many greater things might he be seeing in the meanwhile!»
«That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as another s. We see so much only as we possess.»
«Almost any man knows how to earn money, but not one in a million knows how to spend it.»
«Do what you love. Know you own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
gnaw, gnaw at, unearth, unearthed
«Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient. The objections which have been brought against a standing army, and they are many and weighty, and deserve to prevail, may also at last be brought against a standing government.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
expedient, inexpedient, weightier, weighty
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