QUOTES by Henry David Thoreau
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“Let not to get a living be thy trade, but thy sport. Enjoy the land, but own it not. Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling, and spending their lives like serfs.”
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“Philanthropy is almost the only virtue which is sufficiently appreciated by mankind. Nay, it is overrated; and it is our selfishness which overrates it.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“We commonly do not remember that it is … always the first person that is speaking.”
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“Cold and hunger seem more friendly to my nature than those methods which men have adopted and advise to ward them off.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“The man I meet with is not often so instructive as the silence he breaks.”
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“Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit comfortably on your shoulder.”
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“It is the luxurious and dissipated who set the fashions which the herd so diligently follow.”
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“The sea-shore is a sort of neutral ground, a most advantageous point from which to contemplate this world.”
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“I am grateful for what I am and have. My Thanksgiving is perpetual. It is surprising how contented one can be with nothing to definite - only a sense of existence”
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“I hear beyond the range of sound, I see beyond the range of sight, New earths, and skies and seas around. —”
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“The highest that we can attain to is not Knowledge, but Sympathy with Intelligence.”
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“Where shall we look for standard English but to the words of a standard man?”
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“No doubt you can get more in your market for a quart of milk than for a quart of blood, but that is not the market that heroes carry their blood to.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“A man's ignorance sometimes is not only useful, but beautiful—while his knowledge, so called, is oftentimes worse than useless, besides being ugly.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect, and that will be one step toward obtaining it.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“The purity men love is like the mists which envelop the earth, and not like
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“It is hard to have a Southern overseer; it is worse to have a Northern one; but worst of all when you are the slave-driver of yourself.”
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“The head monkey at Paris puts on a traveller's cap, and all the monkeys in America do the same.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“A written word is the choicest of relics. It is something at once intimate with us and more universal than any other work of art. It is the work of art nearest to life itself.”
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“I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government”
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“It is hard to forget that which it is worse than useless to remember.”
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“If ever I was sure that someone was coming to help me, I should run like hell.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“If ever I was sure that someone was coming to help me, I should run like hell.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“As with our colleges, so with a hundred 'modern improvements'; there is an illusion about them; there is not always a positive advance.”
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“The life which men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?”
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“I would remind my countrymen that they are to be men first, and Americans only at a late and convenient hour.”
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“I have traveled a good deal in Concord; and everywhere, in shops, and offices, and fields, the inhabitants have appeared to me to be doing penance in a thousand remarkable ways.”
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“Behave so the aroma of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere.”
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“The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with their liberal allowance of time.”
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“Next to us is not the workman whom we have hired, with whom we love so well to talk, but the workman whose work we are.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau