QUOTES by Henry David Thoreau
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“All change is a miracle to contemplate, but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“In the long run men only hit what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait until that other is ready, and it may be a long time before they get off.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice. Goodness is the only investment that never fails.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it; but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“It takes two to speak the truth - one to speak and another to hear.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“If I repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior. What demon possessed me that I behaved so well?”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“To be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“This curious world we inhabit is more wonderful than convenient; more beautiful than it is useful; it is more to be admired and enjoyed than used.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“I have, as it were, my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in it's gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?”
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“I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.”
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“Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.”
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“Amid a world of noisy, shallow actors it is noble to stand aside and say, 'I will simply be.”
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“Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.”
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“The path of least resistance leads to crooked rivers and crooked men.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau