We are often struck by the force and precision of style to which hard-working men, unpracticed in writing, easily attain when required to make the effort. As if plainness and vigor and sincerity, the ornaments of style, were better learned on the farm and in the workshop than in the schools. The sentences written by such rude hands are nervous and tough, like hardened thongs, the sinews of the deer, or the roots of the pine.
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…
That government is best which governs least. - Henry David Thoreau
That government is best which governs least.
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…
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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