The night in prison was novel and interesting enough.... I found that even here there was a history and a gossip which never circulated beyond the walls of the jail. Probably this is the only house in the town where verses are composed, which are afterward printed in a circular form, but not published. I was shown quite a long list of verses which were composed by some young men who had been detected in an attempt to escape, who avenged themselves by singing them.
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.
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…
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.
There is nothing more difficult to find than oneself. - Henry David Thoreau
There is nothing more difficult to find than oneself.
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.
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