QUOTES by Henry David Thoreau
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“In the love of narrow souls I make many short voyages but in vain–I find no sea room—but in great souls I sail before the wind without a watch, and never reach the shore. ”
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“There can be no very black melancholy to him who lives in the midst of Nature and has his senses still.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“I believe that men are generally still a little afraid of the dark, though the witches are all hung, and Christianity and candles have been introduced.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“A bore is someone who takes away my solitude and doesn't give me companionship in return”
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“The luxuriously rich are not simply kept comfortably warm, but unnaturally hot; as I implied before, they are cooked, of course _à la mode_.”
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“Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.”
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“A journal is a record of experiences and growth, not a preserve of things well done or said.” ”
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“Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“The more slowly trees grow at first, the sounder they are at the core, and I think the same is true of human beings.”
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“After the first blush of sin comes its indifference; and from immoral it becomes, as it were, unmoral, and not quite unnecessary to that life which we have made.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“If I should sell my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I am sure that for me there would be nothing left worth living for.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“Those who have been bred in the school of politics fail now and always to face the facts.”
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“There is in my nature, methinks, a singular yearning toward all wildness.”
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“The secret of achievement is to hold a picture of a successful outcome in the mind”
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“This was that Earth of which we have heard, made out of Chaos and Old Night.”
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“A traveller! I love his title. A traveler is to be reverenced as such. His profession is the best symbol of our life. Going from–toward; it is the history of every one of us.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“Sometimes we are inclined to class those who are once-and-a-half witted with the half-witted, because we appreciate only a third part of their wit.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“If I were confined to a corner of a garret all my days, like a spider, the world would be just as large to me while I had my thoughts about me.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“Philanthropy is. . . greatly overrated. A pain in the gut is not sympathy for the underprivileged, but the result of eating a green apple; the philanthropist gives to ease his own pain.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“The thoughtful man becomes a hermit in the thoroughfares of the marketplace.”
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“There is a difference between eating and drinking for strength and from mere gluttony.”
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“A man thinking or working will always be alone, let him be where he will.”
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“It is truly enough said that a corporation has no conscience. But a corporation of conscientious men is a corporation with a conscience.”
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“My life is like a stroll upon the beach, as near to the ocean's edge as I can go.”
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“I came into this world, not chiefly to make this a good place to live in, but to live in it, be it good or bad.”
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“Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.”
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“I am convinced, both by faith and experience, that to maintain one's self on this earth is not a hardship but a passtime, if we live simply and wisely”
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“One little chore to do, one little commission to fulfil, one message to carry, would spoil heaven itself.”
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“Man is an animal who more than any other can adapt himself to all climates and circumstances.”
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