"Whatever sentence will bear to be read..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau
Whatever sentence will bear to be read twice, we may be sure was thought twice.
More by Henry David Thoreau
“To speak practically and as a citizen, unlike those who call themselves no-government men, I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government. Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect, and that will be one step toward obtaining it.”
“The world rests on principles.”
“It is darker in the woods, even in common nights, than most suppose.”
More on Writing
“The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader. I know people who read without hearing the sentence sounds and they were the fastest readers. Eye readers we call them. They get the meaning by glances. But they are bad readers because they miss the best part of what a good writer puts into his work.”
“Every writer making a secondary world wishes in some measure to be a real maker, or hopes that he is drawing on reality: hopes that the peculiar quality of this secondary world (if not all the details) are derived from Reality, or are flowing into it.”
“Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.”
More on Thought
“One who is caught in thought loses one's original nature. All he knows are words and descriptions. When he sees the actual thing, he fails to perceive it.”
“Tom's great yellow bronze mask all draped upon an iron framework. An inhibited, nerve-drawn; dropped face - as if hung on a scaffold of heavy private brooding; and thought.”
“Thought makes everything fit for use.”