More from Henry David Thoreau

  1. Nothing is so much to be feared as fear. Atheism may comparatively be popular with God himself.
  2. The perception of beauty is a moral test.
  3. How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
  4. The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the mi…
  5. And now, at half-past ten o'clock, I hear the cockerels crow in Hubbard's barns, and morning is already anticipated. It is the feathered, w…
  6. Every poet has trembled on the verge of science.
  7. Men go to a fire for entertainment. When I see how eagerly men will run to a fire, whether in warm or in cold weather, by day or by night, …
  8. Fire is the most tolerable third party.

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