It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all.
More Quotes from Henry David Thoreau:
Talk about slavery It is not the peculiar institution of the South. It exists wherever men are bought and sold, wherever a man allows himself to be made a mere thing or a tool, and surrenders his inalienable rights of reason and conscience. Indeed, this slavery is more complete than that which enslaves the body alone... I never yet met with, or heard of, a judge who was not a slave of this kind, and so the finest and most unfailing weapon of injustice. He fetches a slightly higher price than the black men only because he is a more valuable slave.Henry David Thoreau
The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it.
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Spring - An experience in immortality.
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The civilized man is a more experienced and wiser savage.
Henry David Thoreau
The rich man ... is always sold to the institution which makes him rich. Absolutely speaking, the more money, the less virtue.
Henry David Thoreau
The poet is a man who lives at last by watching his moods. An old poet comes at last to watch his moods as narrowly as a cat does a mouse.
Henry David Thoreau
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