QUOTES by Henry David Thoreau
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“Men are not so much the keepers of herds as herds are the keepers of men.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“I have great faith in a seed. Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“I believe that the mind can be permanently profaned by the habit of attending to trivial things.”
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“Gardening is civil and social, but it wants the vigor and freedom of the forest and the outlaw.”
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“Our statistics are at fault: the population has been returned too large. How many men are there to a square thousand miles in this country? Hardly one.”
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“If you are ready to leave father and mother, and brother and sister, and wife and child and friends, and never see them again—if you have paid your debts, and made your will, and settled all your affairs, and are a free man—then you are ready for a walk.”
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“There are thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.”
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“What is a course of history, or philosophy, or poetry, no matter how well selected, or the best society, or the most admirable routine of life, compared with the discipline of looking always at what is to be seen?”
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“Chastity is the flowering of man; and what are called Genius, Heroism, Holiness, and the like, are but various fruits which succeed it”
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“We are underbred and low-lived and illiterate; and in this respect I confess I do not make any very broad distinction between the illiterateness of my townsmen who cannot read at all, and the illiterateness of him who has learned to read only what is for children and feeble intellects.”
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“Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream-world into a reality.”
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“It's not enough to be busy; so are the ants. The question is: what are we busy about?”
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“The Vedas say, "All intelligences awake with the morning." Poetry and art, and the fairest and most memorable of the actions of men, date from such an hour. All poets and heroes, like Memnon, are the children of Aurora, and emit their music at sunrise.”
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“As for Doing-good...I have tried it fairly, and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.”
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“That man who does not believe that each day contains an earlier, more sacred, and auroral hour than he has yet profaned, has despaired of life, and is pursuing a descending and darkening way.”
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“the mission of men there seems to be,like so many busy demons,to drive the forest out of the country.”
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“Sobre todo, no podemos permitirnos el lujo de no vivir en el presente.”
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“I believe that every man who has ever been earnest to preserve his higher or poetic faculties in the best condition has been particularly inclined to abstain from animal food, and from much food of any kind.”
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“The objections which have been brought against a standing army, and they are many and weighty, and deserve to prevail, may also at last be brought against a standing government.”
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“A lawyer's truth is not Truth. It is consistency, or consistent expediency”
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“Which is the best man to deal with,-he who knows nothing about a subject, and, what is extremely rare, knows that he knows nothing, or he who really knows something about it, but thinks that he knows all?”
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“Nations are possessed with an insane ambition to perpetuate the memory of themselves by the amount of hammered stone they leave.”
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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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“It has come to this, that the lover of art is one, and the lover of nature another, though true art is but the expression of our love of nature.”
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“To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.”
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“While men believe in the infinite some ponds will be thought to be bottomless.”
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“We now no longer camp as for a night, but have settled down on earth and forgotten heaven”
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“Is a democracy, such as we know it, the last improvement possible in government?”
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“We live a short period of time in this world, but we live it according to the laws of eternal life.”
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“The virtues of a superior man are like the wind; the virtues of a common man are like the grass; the grass, when the wind passes over it, bends.”
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“I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government.”
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“The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.”
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“The stars are God's dreams, thoughts remembered in the silence of his night.”
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“To enjoy a thing exclusively is commonly to exlcude yourself from the true enjoyment of it.”
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“When formerly I was looking about to see what I could do for a living... I thought often and seriously of picking huckleberries; that surely I could do.”
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“My life has been the poem I could have writ But I could not both live and utter it.”
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“It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.”
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“He is blessed who is assured that the animal is dying out in him every day by day, and the divine being established.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau