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Henry David Thoreau Quotes
«The stars are the apexes of what triangles!»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
apex, apexes, triangle, triangles
«That devilish Iron Horse, whose ear-rending neigh is heard throughout the town, has muddied the Boiling Spring with his foot, and he it is that has browsed off all the woods on Walden shore, that Trojan horse, with a thousand men in his belly, introduced by mercenary Greeks! Where is the country's champion, the Moore of Moore Hall, to meet him at the Deep Cut and thrust an avenging lance between the ribs of the bloated pest?»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
avenging, bloated, browse, browsed, browsing, cut-and-thrust, devilish, Greeks, introduced, iron horse, lance, mercenary, Moore, muddied, neigh, neighed, neighing, pest, rending, ribs, The Pest, town meeting, Trojan, Trojans, Trojan Horse
«Nowadays the host does not admit you to his hearth, but has got the mason to build one for yourself somewhere in his alley, and hospitality is the art of keeping you at the greatest distance.»
«By avarice and selfishness, and a groveling habit, from which none of us is free, of regarding the soil as property, or the means of acquiring property chiefly, the landscape is deformed, husbandry is degraded with us, and the farmer leads the meanest of lives. He knows Nature but as a robber.»
«The perch swallows the grub-worm, the pickerel swallows the perch, and the fisherman swallows the pickerel; and so all the chinks in the scale of being are filled.»
«Whether the flower looks better in the nosegay than in the meadow where it grew and we had to wet our feet to get it! Is the scholastic air any advantage?»
«For many years I was a self-appointed inspector of snowstorms and rainstorms and did my duty faithfully, though I never received payment for it.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
inspector, inspectors, payment, self-appointed, snowstorm, snowstorms
«He who is only a traveler learns things at second-hand and by the halves, and is poor authority. We are most interested when science reports what those men already know practically or instinctively, for that alone is a true humanity, or account of human experience.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
halve, halves, halving, practically, traveler