QUOTES by Henry David Thoreau
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“Speech is for the convenience of those who are hard of hearing; but there are many fine things which we cannot say if we have to shout.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance than I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“I will come to you, my friend, when I no longer need you. Then you will find a palace, not an almshouse.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“Most men, even in this comparatively free country, through mere ignorance and mistake, are so occupied with the factitious cares and superfluously coarse labors of life that its finer fruits cannot be plucked by them.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“I am alarmed when it happens that I have walked a mile into the woods bodily, without getting there in spirit.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“My desire for knowledge is intermittent; but my desire to bathe my head in atmospheres unknown to my feet is perennial and constant.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it. ”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“Don't be afraid that your life will end, be afraid that it will never begin!”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“There will never be a really free and enlightened state until the state comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“A man may be very industrious, and yet not spend his time well. There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of life getting his living.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“As long as possible live free and uncommitted. It makes but little difference whether you are committed to a farm or the county jail.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“The true harvest of my life is intangible - a little star dust caught, a portion of the rainbow I have clutched.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“Man wanted a home, a place for warmth, or comfort, first of physical warmth, then the warmth of the affections.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one already.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“I believe in the forest, and in the meadow, and in the night in which the corn grows.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“He who distinguishes the true savor of his food can never be a glutton; he who does not cannot be otherwise.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live, and could not spare any more time for that one.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“He who hears the rippling of rivers in these degenerate days will not utterly despair.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“Happiness is like a butterfly, the more you chase it, the more it will evade you, but if you notice the other things around you, it will gently come and sit on your shoulder.”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“I do not know how to distinguish between waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the life that we imagine we are?”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau
“While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them”
Quote by -Henry David Thoreau