Thoreau

Civil Disobedience
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The Dial

"The Laws of Menu," The Dial 3.3 (Jan. 1843, 331)


 * "Let not a sensible teacher tell what he is not asked, nor what he is asked improperly; but let him, however intelligent, act in the multitude as if he were dumb."

"Ethnical Scriptures: Sayings of Confucius" The Dial 3.4 (April 1843, 493)


 * Chee says, if in the morning I hear about the right way, and in the evening die, I can be happy.

"Ethnical Scriptures: Chinese Four Books," The Dial 4.2 (Oct. 1843, 205)


 * He who employs his whole mind, will know his nature. He who knows his nature, knows heaven.

"A Winter Walk," The Dial 4.2 (Oct. 1843)


 * The wonderful purity of nature at this season is a most pleasing fact. Every decayed stump and moss-grown stone and rail, and the dead leaves of autumn, are concealed by a clean napkin of snow. In the bare fields and tinkling woods, see what virtue survives. In the coldest and bleakest places, the warmest charities still maintain a foothold. A cold and searching wind drives away all contagion, and nothing can withstand it but what has a virtue in it, and accordingly, whatever we meet with in cold and bleak places, as the tops of mountains, we respect for a sort of sturdy innocence, a Puritan toughness.