There is on the earth no institution which Friendship has established; it is not taught by any religion; no scripture contains its maxims. It has no temple nor even a solitary column...However, out fates at least are social. Our courses do not diverge; but as the web of destiny is woven it is fulled, and we are cast more and more into the centre. Men naturally, though feebly, seek this alliance, and their actions faintly foretell it. We are inclined to lay the chief stress on likeness and not on difference, and in foreign bodies we admit that there are many degrees of warmth below blood heat, but none of cold above it.
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HENRY DAVID THOREAU The words which express our faith and piety are not definite; yet they are significant and fragrant ... HENRY DAVID THOREAU The laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day. HENRY DAVID THOREAU It is only when we forget out learning that we begin to know. HENRY DAVID THOREAU What does education often do? It makes a straight cut ditch of a free meandering brook. HENRY DAVID THOREAU If you give money, spend yourself with it. HENRY DAVID THOREAU Philanthropy is almost the only virtue which is sufficiently appreciated by mankind. HENRY DAVID THOREAU Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new. HENRY DAVID THOREAU If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will ... HENRY DAVID THOREAU A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone. HENRY DAVID THOREAU The preachers and lecturers deal with men of straw, as they are men of straw themselves. Why, a free... HENRY DAVID THOREAU I was once reproved by a minister who was driving a poor beast to some meeting-house horse-sheds amo... HENRY DAVID THOREAU You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fool... HENRY DAVID THOREAU Dreams are the touchstones of our characters. HENRY DAVID THOREAU There are thousands hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root. HENRY DAVID THOREAU I would not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well. HENRY DAVID THOREAU The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked what I thought, and attended to my ... HENRY DAVID THOREAU However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate pov... HENRY DAVID THOREAU Give me the poverty that enjoys true wealth. HENRY DAVID THOREAU I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion. HENRY DAVID THOREAU I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, ... HENRY DAVID THOREAU The question is not what you look at, but what you see. HENRY DAVID THOREAU However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so ... HENRY DAVID THOREAU But man's capacities have never been measured; nor are we to judge of what he can do by any preceden... HENRY DAVID THOREAU When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest t... HENRY DAVID THOREAU Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams. HENRY DAVID THOREAU It is desirable that a man live in all respects so simply and preparedly that if an enemy take the t... HENRY DAVID THOREAU Life in us is like the water in a river. HENRY DAVID THOREAU Of what significance are the things you can forget. HENRY DAVID THOREAU The boy gathers materials for a temple, and then when he is thirty, concludes to build a woodshed. HENRY DAVID THOREAU To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, an they who edit and read it are old women ov... HENRY DAVID THOREAU We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New; but ... HENRY DAVID THOREAU