QUOTES by Henry David Thoreau
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“Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have left an indelible impression, and we are ever and anon reminded of them. ”
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“God is alone,-but the devil, he is far from being alone; he sees a great deal of company; he is legion.”
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“If we respected only what is inevitable and has a right to be, music and poetry would resound along the streets.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“But man's capacities have never been measured; nor are we to judge of what he can do by any precedents, so little have been tried.”
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“I could not help being struck with the foolishness of that institution which treated me as if I were mere flesh and blood and bones, to be locked up.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“Let every one mind his own business, and endeavor to be what he was made.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof.”
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“We should come home from far, from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day, with new experience and character.”
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“Age is no better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it has lost.”
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“For it matters not how small the beginning may seem to be: what is once well done is done forever.”
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“Follow your genius closely enough, and it will not fail to show you a fresh prospect every hour.”
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“The church is a sort of hospital for men's souls and as full of quackery as the hospital for their bodies.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“Thus men will lie on their backs, talking about the fall of man, and never make an effort to get up.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“I believe that there is a subtle magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright.”
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“Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends.”
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“It is remarkable how long men will believe in the bottomlessness of a pond without taking the trouble to sound it.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“Some men fish all their lives without knowing it is not really the fish they are after.”
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“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 know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.”
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“Law never made men a whit more just; and, by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents of injustice.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“The true price of anything you do is the amount of time you exchange for it.”
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“There is an incessant influx of novelty into the world, and yet we tolerate incredible dullness.”
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“Begin where you are and such as you are, without aiming mainly to become of more worth, and with kindness aforethought, go about doing good.”
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“Every blade in the field - Every leaf in the forest - lays down its life in its season as beautifully as it was taken up.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“Every blade in the field - Every leaf in the forest - lays down its life in its season as beautifully as it was taken up.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.”
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“The millions are awake enough for physical labor; but only one in a million is awake enough for effective intellectual exertion, only one in a hundred millions to a poetic or divine life. To be awake is to be alive.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau