QUOTES by Henry David Thoreau
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“This people must cease to hold slaves, and to make war on Mexico, though it cost them their existence as a people.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“One may be drunk with love without being any nearer to finding his mate...Love must be as much a light as a flame.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“He was so genuine and unsophisticated that no introduction would serve to introduce him, more than if you introduced a woodchuck to your neighbor.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“Undoubtedly the very tedium and ennui which presume to have exhausted the variety and the joys of life are as old as Adam.”
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“This spending of the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of it”
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“If a state is governed by the principles of reason, poverty and misery are subjects of shame; if a state is not governed by the principles of reason, riches and honors are subjects of shame." No:”
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“There is no such thing as accomplishing a righteous reform by the use of 'expediency.' There is no such thing as sliding up hill. In morals, the only sliders are backsliders.”
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“How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?”
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“and instead of studying how to make it worth men's while to buy my baskets, I studied rather how to avoid the necessity of selling them.”
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“Our village life would stagnate if it were not for the unexplored forests and meadows that surround it. We need the tonic of wildness...”
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“I like sometimes to take rank hold on life and spend my day more as the animals do.”
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“There were times when I could not afford to sacrifice the bloom of the present moment to any work, whether of the head or hands.”
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“Nothing so fair, so pure, and at the same time so large, as a lake, perchance, lies on the surface of the earth.”
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“How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book!”
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“The day is an epitome of the year. The night is the winter, the morning and evening are the spring and fall, and the noon is the summer.”
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“The law will never make men free; it is men who have got to make the law free.”
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“Shall we always study to obtain more of these things, and not sometimes to be content with less?”
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“Confucious said, To know what we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.”
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“There is a low mist in the woods— It is a good day to study lichens.”
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“We are made to exaggerate the importance of what work we do; and yet how much is not done by us!”
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“if injustice, is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law. Let your life be a counter friction to stop the machine.”
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“One is enough. If you are acquainted with the principle, what do you care for a myriad instances and applications?”
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“I find it so difficult to dispose of the few facts which to me are significant, that I hesitate to burden my attention with those which are insignificant”
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“Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.”
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“With respect to wit, I learned that there was not much difference between the half and the whole.”
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“Throw one arch at least over the darker gulf of ignorance which surrounds us.”
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“The repugnance to animal food is not the effect of experience, but it is instinct.”
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“Beauty and true wealth are always thus cheap and despised. Heaven might be defined as the place which men avoid.”
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“No man with a genius for legislation has appeared in America. They are rare in the history of the world.”
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“I am wont to think that men are not so much the keepers of herds as herds are the keepers of men. The former are so much the freer.”
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“As I love nature, as I love singing birds...I love thee, my friend.”
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“A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.”
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“When the subject has refused allegiance and the officer has resigned his office, then the revolution is accomplished.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau