The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.

Quote by Henry David Thoreau

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A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish...

A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish...

What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God...

What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God...

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...

I have received no more than one or two letters in my life that were...

I have received no more than one or two letters in my life that were...

I was more independent than any farmer in Concord, for I was not anchored to...

I was more independent than any farmer in Concord, for I was not anchored to...

We live but a fraction of our lives

$We live but a fraction of our lives$

I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when...

I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when...

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

Fame is not just. She never finely or discriminatingly praises, but coarsely hurrahs.

Fame is not just. She never finely or discriminatingly praises, but coarsely hurrahs.

How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends, that we might...

How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends, that we might...

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...

An unclean person is universally a slothful one.

An unclean person is universally a slothful one.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up...

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up...

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,...

Only that day dawns to which we are awake.

Only that day dawns to which we are awake.

Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not...

Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not...

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes...

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes...

May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love!

May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love!

If misery loves company, misery has company enough.

If misery loves company, misery has company enough.

Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This...

Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This...