QUOTES by Henry David Thoreau
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“The works of the great poets have never yet been read by mankind, for only great poets can read the.”
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“He understood, as he would write in "Walking," that "the hero is commonly the simplest and obscurest of men.”
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“The surface of the earth is soft and impressible by the feet of men ; and so with the paths which the mind travels. How worn and dusty, then, must be the highways of the world, how deep the ruts of tradition and conformity.”
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“There are none happy in the world but beings who enjoy freely a vast horizon"—said Damodara, when his herds required new and larger pastures.”
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“Roads are made for horses and men of business. I do not travel in them much, comparatively, because I am not in a hurry to get to any tavern or grocery or livery-stable or depot to which they lead.”
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“The West of which I speak is but another name for the Wild; and what I have been preparing to say is, that in the Wildness is the preservation of the World.”
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“If we would aim at perfection in any thing, simplicity must not be overlooked.”
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“For I believe that climate does thus react on man--as there is something in the mountain air that feeds the spirit and inspires.”
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“on the morning of many a first spring day...the woods were bathed in so pure and bright a light as would have waked the dead. There needs no stronger proof of immortality.”
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“I would not have every man nor every part of a man cultivated, anymore than I would have every acre of earth cultivated.”
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“In most books, the I, or first person, is omitted; in this it will be retained; that, in respect to egotism, is the main difference.”
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“Is there not a sort of blood shed when the conscience is wounded? Through this wound a man's real manhood and immortality flow out, and he bleeds to an everlasting death.”
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“No very black melencholy can come to he who lives in the midst of nature and has his senses still.....”
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“Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?”
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“Open all your pores and bathe in all the tides of nature, in all her streams and oceans, at all seasons.”
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“Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.”
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“You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.”
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“For if the truth were known, Love cannot speak, But only thinks and does; Though surely out 'twill leak Without the help of Greek, Or any tongue.”
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“Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.”
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“I do not wish to quarrel with any man or nation. I do not wish to split hairs, to make fine distinctions, or set myself up as better than my neighbors. I seek rather, I may say, even an excuse for conforming to the laws of the land. I am but too ready to conform to them.”
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“If I put my head deliberately into the fire, there is no appeal to fire or to the maker of fire, and I have only myself to blame.”
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“What is it that makes it so hard sometimes to determine whither we will walk? I believe that there is a subtle magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright.”
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“The attitude of resistance is one of weakness inasmuch as it only faces an enemy. It has its back to all that is truly attractive.”
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“I desire that there may be as many different persons in the world as possible; but I would have each one be very careful to find out and pursue his own way, and not his father's or his mother's or his neighbor's instead.”
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“It matters not where or how far you travel,--the farther commonly the worse,--but how much alive you are.”
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“But I would say to my fellows, once for all, As long as possible live free and uncommitted.”
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“I am thinking by what long discipline and at what cost a man learns to speak simply at last.”
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“I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to the other”
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“We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.”
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“The doctrines of despair, of spiritual or political tyranny or servitude, were never taught by such as shared the serenity of nature.”
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“If there is any hell more unprincipled than our rulers, and we, the ruled, I feel curious to see it.”
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“Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life? We are determined to be starved before we are hungry.”
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“I believe that, in this country, the press exerts a greater and a more pernicious influence than the church did in its worst period. We are not a religious people, but we are a nation of politicians.”
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“The silence rings—it is musical & thrills me. A night in which the silence was audible—I hear the unspeakable.”
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“I think that we should be men first and subjects afterward. It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.”
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“It is not worth the while to go round the world to count the cats in Zanzibar.”
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