QUOTES by Henry David Thoreau
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“No humane being, past the thoughtless age of boyhood, will wantonly murder any creature, which holds its life by the same tenure that he does.”
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“Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.”
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“Read not the Times. Read the Eternities. Knowledge does not come to us by details, but in flashes of light from heaven.”
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“The earth I tread on is not a dead inert mass. It is a body—has a spirit—is organic—and fluid to the influence of its spirit—and to whatever particle of the spirit is in me”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“We cannot see anything until we are possessed with the idea of it, take it into our heads, - and then we can hardly see anything else.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“Shams and delusions are esteemed for soundest truths, while reality is fabulous.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“How can a man be satisfied to entertain an opinion merely, and enjoy it?”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“I want the flower and fruit of a man; that some fragrance be wafted over from him to me, and some ripeness flavor our intercourse.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“It's too late to be studying Hebrew; it's more important to understand even the slang of today.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“Cape Cod is the bared and bended arm of Massachusetts. The shoulder is at Buzzard's Bay; the elbow at Cape Mallebarre; the wrist at Truro; and the sandy fist at Provincetown.”
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“Hope and the future for me are not in lawns and cultivated fields, not in towns and cities, but in the impervious and quaking swamps.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies, and not be the biggest pygmie that he can? Let everyone mind his own business, and endeavor to be what he was made”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“Life consists with wildness. The most alive is the wildest. Not yet subdued to man, its presence refreshes him.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“I believe,—“That government is best which governs not at all;” and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“See how he cowers and sneaks, how vaguely all the day he fears, not being immortal nor divine, but the slave and prisoner of his own opinion of himself, a fame won by his own deeds.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“To be alone was something unpleasant. But I was at the same time conscious of a slight insanity in my mood, and seemed to foresee my recovery.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“The mass of men serve the state thus, not as men mainly, but as machines, with their bodies”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“Why level downward to our dullest perception always, and praise that as common sense? The commonest sense is the sense of men asleep, which they express by snoring.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“Pursue, keep up with, circle round and round your life, as a dog does his master’s chaise. Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.”
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“There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.”
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“A government which deliberately enacts injustice, and persists in it, will at length ever become the laughing-stock of the world.”
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“Commonly men will only be brave as their fathers were brave, or timid.”
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“Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature, and not be thrown off the track by every nutshell and mosquito's wing that falls on the rails.”
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“Here is life, an experiment to a great extent untried by me; but it does not avail me that they have tried it.”
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“To affect the quality of the day - that is the highest of the arts.”
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“Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed in them.” “Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed in them.”
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“I am too high born to be propertied, To be a second at control, Or useful serving-man and instrument To any sovereign state throughout the world.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“I am too high born to be propertied, To be a second at control, Or useful serving-man and instrument To any sovereign state throughout the world.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“Above all, we cannot afford not to live in the present. He is blessed over all mortals who loses no moment of the passing life in remembering the past.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“The fate of the country... does not depend on what kind of paper you drop into the ballot-box once a year, but on what kind of man you drop from your chamber into the street every morning.”
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“O how I laugh when I think of my vague indefinite riches. No run on my bank can drain it, for my wealth is not possession but enjoyment.
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau