{"author":"Henry David Thoreau","author_id":"Henry+David+Thoreau","total_quotes":505,"quotes":[{"text":"Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.","author":"Henry David Thoreau","tags":["money"],"id":2413,"author_id":"Henry+David+Thoreau"},{"text":"What is most of our boasted so-called knowledge but a conceit that we know something, which robs us of the advantage of our actual ignorance?","author":"Henry David Thoreau","tags":["ignorance","knowledge"],"id":4052,"author_id":"Henry+David+Thoreau"},{"text":"The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.","author":"Henry David Thoreau","tags":["consistency","lawyer "],"id":5021,"author_id":"Henry+David+Thoreau"},{"text":"Some of my pleasantest hours were during the long rain-storms in the spring or fall, which confined me to the house for the afternoon as well as the forenoon, soothed by their ceaseless roar and pelting; when an early twilight ushered in a long evening in which many thoughts had time to take root and unfold themselves. In those driving northeast rains which tried the village houses so, when the maids stood ready with mop and pail in front entries to keep the deluge out, I sat behind my door in my little house, which was all entry, and thoroughly enjoyed its protection.","author":"Henry David Thoreau","tags":["rain"],"id":5033,"author_id":"Henry+David+Thoreau"},{"text":"Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.","author":"Henry David Thoreau","tags":["morality","usefulness"],"id":6345,"author_id":"Henry+David+Thoreau"},{"text":"In any weather, at any hour of the day or night, I have been anxious to improve the nick of time, and notch it on my stick too; to stand on the meeting of two eternities, the past and the future, which is precisely the present moment; to toe that line. You will pardon some obscurities, for there are more secrets in my trade than in most men's, and yet not voluntarily kept, but inseparable from its very nature.","author":"Henry David Thoreau","tags":["philosophy","present","thoreau","walden"],"id":6938,"author_id":"Henry+David+Thoreau"},{"text":"Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.","author":"Henry David Thoreau","tags":["soul","necessity","buy "],"id":10511,"author_id":"Henry+David+Thoreau"},{"text":"I thus found that the student who wishes for a shelter can obtain one for a lifetime at an expense not greater than the rent which he now pays annually. If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself; and my shortcomings and inconsistencies do not affect the truth of my statement.","author":"Henry David Thoreau","tags":["ecology","nature","the-woods"],"id":10647,"author_id":"Henry+David+Thoreau"},{"text":"What are these pines \u0026 these birds about? What is this pond a-doing? I must know a little more.","author":"Henry David Thoreau","tags":["nature"],"id":10681,"author_id":"Henry+David+Thoreau"},{"text":"The bluebird carries the sky on his back.","author":"Henry David Thoreau","tags":["nature"],"id":10950,"author_id":"Henry+David+Thoreau"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":505,"pages":51,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}