http://slow.writerscafe.org/ptine The original writings of author Pete en-us Copyright 2026 WritersCafe.org 1775939515 WritersCafe.org RSS Generator 15 Measure your health by your sympathy with morning and spring. - Thoreau http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/ptine/3131700/ a lipstick sun smilesan orgasmic tide shivers http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/ptine/3131552/ The poet's body even is not fed like other men's, but he sometimes tastes the genuine nectar and ambrosia of the gods, and lives a divine life. - Thoreau http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/ptine/3131532/ In a pleasant spring morning all men's sins are forgiven. - Thoreau http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/ptine/3131528/ Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence. - Thoreau http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/ptine/3131441/ When I hear music, I feel no danger. I am invulnerable. - Thoreau http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/ptine/3131356/ Life is unfair. And it’s not fair that life is unfair. - Edward Abbey http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/ptine/3131268/ What soap is for the body, tears are for the soul. - Thoreau http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/ptine/3131265/ He who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers. - Thoreau http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/ptine/3131264/ Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase. - Dr. Martin Luther King http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/ptine/3130835/ When you knock, ask to see God — none of the servants. - Thoreau http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/ptine/3130496/ The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it. - Thoreau http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/ptine/3130418/ Every lie is two lies, the lie we tell others and the lie we tell ourselves to justify it. - Thoreau http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/ptine/3130347/ Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. - Thoreau http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/ptine/3130343/ The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. - Thoreau http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/ptine/3130341/ It's only by forgetting yourself that you draw near to God. - Thoreau http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/ptine/3130278/ But men labor under a mistake. The better part of the man is soon ploughed into the soil for compost". - Thoreau http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/ptine/3129759/ The forests are held cheap after the white pine has been culled out; and the explorers and hunters pray for rain only to clear the atmosphere of smoke. - Thoreau http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/ptine/3129695/ Words should pass between friends as the lightning passes from cloud to cloud. - Thoreau http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/ptine/3129424/ As if you could kill time without injuring eternity. - Thoreau http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/ptine/3129186/ The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness. - Thoreau http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/ptine/3129083/ Nature does not cast pearls before swine. There is just as much beauty visible to us in the landscape as we are prepared to appreciate,— not a grain more. - Thoreau http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/ptine/3128989/ Christ is the prince of Reformers and Radicals. - Thoreau http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/ptine/3128985/ Our manners have been corrupted by communication with the saints. Our hymn-books resound with a melodious cursing of God and enduring Him forever. - Thoreau http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/ptine/3128976/ Who hears the fishes when they cry? - Thoreau http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/ptine/3128893/ I am alarmed when it happens that I have walked a mile into the woods bodily, without getting there in spirit. - Thoreau http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/ptine/3128890/ The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star." - Thoreau http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/ptine/3128889/ painting depicting Shylock and Jessicafrom Shakespear's The Merchant of Venicethick as molasseshoneyed name of jessicasteeped sassafrases http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/ptine/3128738/ When you knock, ask to see God — none of the servants. - Thoreau http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/ptine/3128735/ Music is perpetual, and only the hearing is intermittent. - Thoreau http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/ptine/3128725/ Things do not change; we change. -Thoreau http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/ptine/3128653/ In an unjust society the only place for a just man is prison. - Thoreau http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/ptine/3128562/ Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake. - Thoreau http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/ptine/3128537/ I am sobered by the moonlight... It is like a cup of cold water to a thirsty man. - Thoreau http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/ptine/3128467/ I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion. - Thoreau http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/ptine/3128444/ Who hears the fishes when they cry? - Thoreau http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/ptine/3128382/ A strain of music reminds me of a passage of the Vedas, and I associate with it the idea of infinite remoteness, as well as of beauty and serenity. - Thoreau http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/ptine/3128355/ Never look back unless you are planning to go that way. - Thoreau http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/ptine/3128250/ The morning wind forever blows, the poem of creation is uninterrupted; but few are the ears that hear it. - Thoreau http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/ptine/3128246/ The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it. - Thoreau http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/ptine/3128238/ I am not alone if I stand by myself. - Thoreau http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/ptine/3128237/ Music is perpetual, and only the hearing is intermittent. - Thoreau http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/ptine/3128236/ Music is perpetual, and only the hearing is intermittent. - Thoreau http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/ptine/3128140/ We hate the kindness which we understand. - Thoreau http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/ptine/3127755/ Then, there is the thin transparency of November's light; on a cloudless day, it is the clearest glass. - Thoreau http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/ptine/3127663/ Be yourself- not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should be. - Thoreau http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/ptine/3127606/ However mean your life is, meet it and live it. - Thoreau http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/ptine/3127519/ Walden is blue at one time and green at another, even from the same point of view. Lying between the earth and the heavens, it partakes of the color of both. - Thoreau http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/ptine/3127436/ Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing. - Thoreau http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/ptine/3127418/ Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. - Thoreau http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/ptine/3127353/