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In Adam's fall We sinned all. In the new Adam's rise, We shall all reach the skies.
Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
The traveler must be born again on the road, and earn a passport from the elements.
I turned my face more exclusively than ever to the woods, where I was better known.
Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.
Glances of true beauty can be seen in the faces of those who live in true meekness.
How sweet it would be to treat men and things, for an hour, for just what they are!
Water is a pioneer which the settler follows, taking advantage of its improvements.
Insane!... Ask the tyrant who is his most dangerous foe, the sane man or the insane?
Live in each season as it passes: breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit.
While some men believe in the infinite, some ponds will be thought to be bottomless.
Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.
My life has been the poem I would have writ, But I could not both live and utter it.
Many have believed that Walden reached quite through to the other side of the globe.
Philanthropy is almost the only virtue which is sufficiently appreciated by mankind.
Man needs to know but little more than a lobster in order to catch him in his traps.
I have, as it were, my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself.
The poet is he who can write some pure mythology today without the aid of posterity.
One piece of good sense would be more memorable than a monument as high as the moon.
Why should we leave it to Harper & Brothers and Redding & Co. to select our reading?
Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do not want society.
Far travel, very far travel, or travail, comes near to the worth of staying at home.
Where the most beautiful wild flowers grow, there mans spirit is fed and poets grow.
In the meanest are all the materials of manhood, only they are not rightly disposed.
What a fool he must be who thinks that his El Dorado is anywhere but where he lives.
Fame is not just. She never finely or discriminatingly praises, but coarsely hurrahs.
Where there is a brave man, in the thickest of the fight, there is the post of honor.
Writing may be either the record of a deed or a deed. It is nobler when it is a deed.
At the extreme north, the voyagers are obliged to dance and act plays for employment.
When the reptile is attacked at one mouth of his burrow, he shows himself at another.
I believe in the forest, and in the meadow, and in the night in which the corn grows.
The frontiers are not east or west, north or south, but wherever a man fronts a fact.
The intellect is a cleaver; it discerns and rifts its way into the secrets of things.
Most of the stone a nation hammers goes toward its tomb only. It buries itself alive.
We soon get through with nature. She excites an expectation which she cannot satisfy.
Perhaps the facts most astounding and most real are never communicated by man to man.
It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.
When a man's conscience and the laws clash, it is his conscience that he must follow.
To be awake is to be completely alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.
It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?
The most attractive sentences are not perhaps the wisest, but the surest and soundest.
How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?
The meeting of two eternities, the past and future....is precisely the present moment.
Who knows what the human body would expand and flow out to under a more genial heaven?
I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.
We are as much as we see. Faith is sight and knowledge. The hands only serve the eyes.
What wealth is it to have such friends that we cannot think of them without elevation!
There is commonly sufficient space about us. Our horizon is never quite at our elbows.
Anyone in a free society where the laws are unjust has an obligation to break the law.
There is a difference between eating and drinking for strength and from mere gluttony.