How can any man be weak who dares to be at all?

Quote by Henry David Thoreau

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As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past...

As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past...

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe...

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe...

This world is but canvas to our imaginations

This world is but canvas to our imaginations

That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.

That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.

Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes...

Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes...

Poverty - it is life near the bone, where it is sweetest

Poverty - it is life near the bone, where it is sweetest

The Canadians of those days, at least, possessed a roving spirit of adventure which carried...

The Canadians of those days, at least, possessed a roving spirit of adventure which carried...

A man's interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry...

A man's interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry...

If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work...

If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work...

I lose my respect for the man who can make the mystery of sex the...

I lose my respect for the man who can make the mystery of sex the...

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.

We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.

Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago...

Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago...

I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy,...

I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy,...

The best thing a man can do for his culture when he is rich is...

The best thing a man can do for his culture when he is rich is...

Good poetry seems too simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we...

Good poetry seems too simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we...

In eternity there is indeed something true and sublime. But all these times and places...

In eternity there is indeed something true and sublime. But all these times and places...

Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of Assyria, Make an agreement with...

Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of Assyria, Make an agreement with...

So when that Angel of the darker Drink At last shall find you by the...

So when that Angel of the darker Drink At last shall find you by the...