However much we admire the orator's occasional bursts of eloquence, the noblest written words are commonly as far behind or abovethe fleeting spoken language as the firmament with its stars is behind the clouds.
What is religion? That which is never spoken. - Henry David Thoreau
What is religion? That which is never spoken.
- Henry David Thoreau
There is no beginning too small. - Henry David Thoreau
There is no beginning too small.
For things to change, we must change. - Henry David Thoreau
For things to change, we must change.
I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes. - Henry David Thoreau
I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
We could not help being struck by the seeming, though innocent, indifference of Nature to these men's necessities, while elsewhereshe was equally ser… - Henry David Thoreau
We could not help being struck by the seeming, though innocent, indifference of Nature to these men's necessities, while elsewhereshe was equally ser…
If you will not try, you will go to your grave with your song still inside you. - Henry David Thoreau
If you will not try, you will go to your grave with your song still inside you.
Unless the human race perspire more than I do, there is no occasion to live by the sweat of their brow. If men cannot get on without money (the small… - Henry David Thoreau
Unless the human race perspire more than I do, there is no occasion to live by the sweat of their brow. If men cannot get on without money (the small…
That government is best which governs least. - Henry David Thoreau
That government is best which governs least.
There is nothing more difficult to find than oneself. - Henry David Thoreau
There is nothing more difficult to find than oneself.
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