QUOTES by Henry David Thoreau
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“It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“Knowledge does not come to us by details, but in flashes of light from heaven.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“Knowledge does not come to us by details, but in flashes of light from heaven.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“Under a goverment which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“Our life is frittered away by detail...Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let our affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand...Simplify, simplify!”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“Is a democracy, such as we know it, the last improvement possible in government? Is it not possible to take a step further towards recognizing and organizing the rights of man?”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“I turned my face more exclusively than ever to the woods, where I was better known.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“The walking of which I speak has nothing in it akin to taking exercise, as it is called, as the sick take medicine at stated hours …but it is itself the enterprise and adventure of the day.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“Men have become the tools of their tools. Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul. Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.”
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“I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, to life itself, than this incessant business.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“For it matters not how small the beginning may seem to be: what is once done well is done forever.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“Be it life or death, we crave only reality. If we are really dying, let us hear the rattle in our throats and feel the cold in the extremities; if we are alive, let us go about our business.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“I should not talk so much about myself if there were any body else whom I knew as well. Unfortunately, I am confined to this theme by the narrowness of my experience.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only. Money is not required to buy one necessary of the soul.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“You must converse much with the field and the woods if you would imbibe such health into your mind and spirit as you covet for your body”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“A sentence should be read as if its author, had he held a plough instead of a pen, could have drawn a furrow deep and straight to the end.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“If the day and night are such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, more starry, more immortal - that is your success.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“They who have been bred in the school of politics fail now and always to face the facts.”
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“God himself culminates in the present moment, and will never be more divine in the lapse of all the ages.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“As long as I have the friendship of the sesasons life will never be a burden to me.”
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“The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible and indescribable as the tints of morning or evening. It is a little star-dust caught, a segment of the rainbow which I have clutched.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“Truth strikes us from behind and in the dark, as well as from before and in broad daylight.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“You boast of spending a tenth part of your income in charity; may be you should spend the nine tenths so, and done with it.”
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“Lee los mejores libros primero; lo más seguro es que no alcances a leerlos todos.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“So long as a man is faithful to himself, everything is in his favor, government, society, the very sun, moon, and stars.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“This is a delicious evening, when the whole body is one sense, and imbibes delight through every pore.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“The true and not despairing Friend will address his Friend in some such terms as these."I never asked thy leave to let me love thee,--I have a right. I love thee not as something private and personal, which is your own, but as something universal and worthy of love, which I have found. O, how I think of you! You are purely good, --you are infinitely good. I can trust you forever. I did not think that humanity was so rich. Give me an opportunity to live.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau