QUOTES by Henry David Thoreau
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“Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snows in the fields and woods, if you would keep your spirits up. Deal with brute nature. Be cold and hungry and weary.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“I can alter my life by altering my attitude. He who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.”
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“Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.”
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“Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.”
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“The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.”
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“I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“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.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau