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A bore is someone who takes away my solitude and doesn't give me companionship in return

A written word is the choicest of relics. It is something at once intimate with us and more universal than any other work of art. It is the work of art nearest to life itself.

The repugnance to animal food is not the effect of experience, but it is instinct.

They required to be dusted daily, when the furniture of my mind was all undusted still.

My purpose in going to Walden Pond was not to live cheaply nor to live dearly there but to transact some private business, with the fewest obstacles… It's a good place for business... it offers advantages which it may not be good policy to divulge.

No man with a genius for legislation has appeared in America. They are rare in the history of the world.

Even poetry, you know, is in one sense an infinite brag & exaggeration.

If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.

I cast my vote, perchance, as I think right; but I am not vitally concerned that that right should prevail. I am willing to leave it to the majority. Its obli­gation, therefore, never exceeds that of expediency. Even voting for the right is doing nothing for it. It is only expressing to men feebly your desire that it should prevail. 

Have you got in your wood for this winter? What else have you got in? Of what use a great fire on the hearth, and a confounded little fire in the heart?

should not every apartment in which man dwells be lofty enough to create some obscurity overhead, where flickering shadows may play at evening about rafters?

The incessant anxiety and strain of some is a well-nigh incurable form of disease.

A written word is the choicest of relics. It is something at once more intimate with us and more universal than any other work of art. It is the work of art nearest to life itself. It may be translated into every language, and not only be read but actually breathed from all human lips;

And Elijah Wood, I fear for no good:

if one were to judge these men wholly by the effects of their actions, and not partly by their intentions, they would deserve to be classed and punished with those mischievous persons who put obstructions on the railroads.

To use an obsolete Latin word, I might say, Ex Oriente lux; ex Occidente FRUX. From the East light; from the West fruit.

I did not feel lonesome; if I was not afraid; and the like. Others have been curious to learn what portion of my income I devoted to charitable purposes; and some, who have large families, how many poor children I maintained

our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed in them; and the bad neighborhood to be avoided is our own scurvy selves.

the principal object is, not that mankind may be well and honestly clad, but, unquestionably, that corporations may be enriched.

mere smoke of opinion, which some had trusted for a cloud that would sprinkle fertilizing rain on their fields.

Your ignorance, brother, returned she, as the great Milton says, almost subdues my patience.[*] D—n Milton! answered the squire: if he had the impudence to say so to my face, I'd lend him a douse, thof he was never so great a man.

there is no one circumstance in which the distempers of the mind bear a more exact analogy to those which are called bodily, than that aptness which both have to a relapse.

So inconsiderable an object is misery to light minds when it is at any distance.

To these encroachments, time and ignorance, the two great supporters of imposture, gave authority;