A man may acquire a taste for wine or brandy, and so lose his love for water, but should we not pity him
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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.Henry David Thoreau
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
Henry David Thoreau
For eighteen hundred years, though perchance I have no right to say it, the New Testament has been written yet where is the legislator who has wisdom and practical talent enough to avail himself of the light which it sheds on the science of legislation
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It is dry, hazy June weather. We are more of the earth, farther from heaven these days.
Henry David Thoreau
There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.
Henry David Thoreau
The purity men love is like the mists which envelope the earth, and not like the azure ether beyond.
Henry David Thoreau
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