There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil... -Henry David Thoreau

There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.

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I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual....
If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life....
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What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party....
While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not ...
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In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high....
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see....
The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free....
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Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God....
For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all....
The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also....
Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature....
Each piece, or part, of the whole of nature is always merely an approximation to the complete truth, or the complete truth so far as we know it. In fa...
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To conquer nature is, in effect, to remove all natural barriers and human norms and to substitute artificial, fabricated equivalents for natural proce...
Man was nature's mistake she neglected to finish him and she has never ceased paying for her mistake....