Monday, Though All the Fates Should Prove Unkind, st. 2 <br class="br"> A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext03/7cncd10.txt (1849), Monday

“My books I'd fain cast off, I cannot read,
'Twixt every page my thoughts go stray at large
Down in the meadow, where is richer feed,
And will not mind to hit their proper targe.”

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Henry David Thoreau

The Summer Rain http://www.poemhunter.com/p/m/poem.asp?poet=6711&poem=31808, st. 1 (1842)

“Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.”

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Henry David Thoreau

November 11, 1854
Referring to an 1849 dairyman's strike, during which there was suspicion of milk being watered down
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Varianta: Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.

“I speak for the slave when I say that I prefer the philanthropy of Captain Brown to that philanthropy which neither shoots me nor liberates me.”

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Henry David Thoreau kniha A Plea for Captain John Brown

A Plea for Captain John Brown (1859)

“The eye may see for the hand, but not for the mind.”

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Henry David Thoreau

A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext03/7cncd10.txt (1849), Friday

“The New Testament is an invaluable book, though I confess to having been slightly prejudiced against it in my very early days by the church and the Sabbath school, so that it seemed, before I read it, to be the yellowest book in the catalogue. Yet I early escaped from their meshes. It was hard to get the commentaries out of one's head and taste its true flavor. — I think that Pilgrim's Progress is the best sermon which has been preached from this text; almost all other sermons that I have heard, or heard of, have been but poor imitations of this.”

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It would be a poor story to be prejudiced against the Life of Christ because the book has been edited by Christians. <br class="br"> A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext03/7cncd10.txt (1849), Sunday

“No man with a genius for legislation has appeared in America. They are rare in the history of the world. There are orators, politicians, and eloquent men, by the thousand; but the speaker has not yet opened his mouth to speak who is capable of settling the much-vexed questions of the day.”

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Henry David Thoreau kniha Civil Disobedience

Civil Disobedience (1849)

“My life has been the poem I would have writ,
But I could not both live and utter it.”

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Henry David Thoreau

My Life Has Been a Poem I Would Have Writ <br class="br"> A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext03/7cncd10.txt (1849), Friday

“There are other letters for the child to learn than those which Cadmus invented.”

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Henry David Thoreau kniha Walking

Walking (June 1862)

“Go where we will on the surface of things, men have been there before us.”

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Henry David Thoreau

A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext03/7cncd10.txt (1849), Thursday

“I am as desirous of being a good neighbor as I am of being a bad subject.”

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Civil Disobedience (1849)

“How does it become a man to behave toward this American government today? I answered that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.”

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Civil Disobedience (1849)

“And now, at half-past ten o'clock, I hear the cockerels crow in Hubbard's barns, and morning is already anticipated. It is the feathered, wakeful thought in us that anticipates the following day.”

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Henry David Thoreau

July 11, 1851
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“Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.”

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Misquotation of a line from Walden cited above, with the addition of a spurious ending. For this and other misattributions, see: The Henry D. Thoreau Mis-Quotation Page http://www.walden.org/thoreau/mis-quotations/ <br class="br">Misattributed

“Talk of mysteries! — Think of our life in nature, — daily to be shown matter, to come in contact with it, — rocks, trees, wind on our cheeks! The solid earth! the actual world! the common sense! Contact! Contact! Who are we? where are we?”

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The Maine Woods http://thoreau.eserver.org/mewoods.html, Ktaadn, Pt. 6 (1848)