It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all.

Quote by Henry David Thoreau

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While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who...

While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who...

There is no remedy for love but to love more

There is no remedy for love but to love more

No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at...

No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at...

Children, who play life, discern its true law and relations more clearly than men, who...

Children, who play life, discern its true law and relations more clearly than men, who...

To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is...

To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is...

Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable...

Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable...

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

Politics is the gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel.

Politics is the gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel.

There is no just and serene criticism as yet.

There is no just and serene criticism as yet.

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

All good things are wild, and free.

All good things are wild, and free.

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.

There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his...

There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his...

It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it...

It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it...

This world is but a canvas to our imaginations.

This world is but a canvas to our imaginations.

How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer,...

How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer,...

Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.

Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.

What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to...

What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to...

We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.

We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.

The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns...

The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns...