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We slander the hyena; man is the fiercest and cruelest animal.

Henry David Thoreau
One is wise to cultivate the tree that bears fruit in our soul.

Henry David Thoreau
Speech is for the convenience of those who are hard of hearing.

Henry David Thoreau
Much of our poetry has the very best manners, but no character.

Henry David Thoreau
What would human life be without forests, those natural cities?

Henry David Thoreau
Simplicity is the law of nature for men as well as for flowers.

Henry David Thoreau
So we defend ourselves and our henroosts, and maintain slavery.

Henry David Thoreau
What the first philosopher taught the last will have to repeat.

Henry David Thoreau
May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love!

Henry David Thoreau
I have found that hollow, which even I had relied on for solid.

Henry David Thoreau
Nothing is cheap and course, neither dew-drops nor snow-flakes.

Henry David Thoreau
The Ethiopian cannot change his skin nor the leopard his spots.

Henry David Thoreau
I see less difference between a city and a swamp than formerly.

Henry David Thoreau
If you would get exercise, go in search of the springs of life.

Henry David Thoreau
You must have a genius for charity as well as for anything else.

Henry David Thoreau
A man may stand there [Cape Cod] and put all America behind him.

Henry David Thoreau
The world is a strange place for a playhouse to stand within it.

Henry David Thoreau
We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.

Henry David Thoreau
What have I to do with plows? I cut another furrow than you see.

Henry David Thoreau
I have lately got back to that glorious society called Solitude.

Henry David Thoreau
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

Henry David Thoreau
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.

Henry David Thoreau
You fail in your thoughts, or you prevail in your thoughts only.

Henry David Thoreau
As for doing good, that is one of the professions which are full.

Henry David Thoreau
Morning glory is the best name, it always refreshes me to see it.

Henry David Thoreau
The whole civilized country is to some extent turned into a city.

Henry David Thoreau
The laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day.

Henry David Thoreau
Our manners have been corrupted by communication with the saints.

Henry David Thoreau
It requires a direct dispensation from Heaven to become a walker.

Henry David Thoreau
The lover wants no partiality. He says, Be so kind as to be just.

Henry David Thoreau