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Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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But they who are unconcerned about the consequences of their actions are not therefore unconcerned about their actions (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
It [is of] some advantage to live a primitive and frontier life, though in the midst of an outward civilization, if only to learn what are the gross necessities of life (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
The ancient philosophers, Chinese, Hindu, Persian, and Greek, were a class than which none has been poorer in outward riches, none so rich inward (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
I learned to regard man as an inhabitant, or a part and parcel of nature, rather than a member of society (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
I learned what it is to live in the open air, and I learned that our lives are domestic in more sense than we think (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof. What everybody echoes or in silence passes by as true today may turn out to be falsehood tomorrow (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
I should be glad if all the meadows on the earth were left in a wild state, if that were the consequence of men’s beginning to redeem themselves (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
It is truly enough said that a corporation has no conscience, but a corporation of conscientious men is a corporation with a conscience (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
The stars are distant and unobtrusive, but bright and enduring as our fairest and most memorable experiences (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
Duty is one and invariable; it requires no impossibilities, nor can it ever be disregarded with impunity (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
If words were invented to conceal thought, newspapers are a great improvement of a bad invention (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
The words which express our faith and piety are not definite; yet they are significant and fragrant like frankincense to superior natures (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
There is an incessant influx of novelty into the world, and yet we tolerate incredible dullness (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
The present hour is always wealthiest when it is poorer than the future ones, as that is the pleasantest site which affords the pleasantest prospect (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
A poem is one undivided unimpeded expression fallen ripe into literature, and it is undividedly and unimpededly received by those for whom it was matured (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
I have myself to respect, but to myself I am not amiable; but my friend is my amiableness personified (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
Sincerity is a great but rare virtue, and we pardon to it much complaining, and the betrayal of many weaknesses (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
Even the elephant carries but a small trunk on his journeys. The perfection of traveling is to travel without baggage (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
You ask particularly after my health. I suppose that I have not many months to live; but, of course, I know nothing about it. I may add that I am enjoying existence as much as ever, and regret nothing (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
A slight sound at evening lifts me up by the ears, and makes life seem inexpressibly serene and grand. It may be Uranus, or it may be in the shutter (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
Men go to a fire for entertainment. When I see how eagerly men will run to a fire, whether in warm or in cold weather, by day or by night, dragging an engine at their heels, I’m astonished to perceive how good a purpose the level of excitement is made to serve (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
Nothing is so much to be feared as fear. Atheism may comparatively be popular with God himself (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
Men talk about Bible miracles because there is no miracle in their lives. Cease to gnaw that crust. There is ripe fruit over your head (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
Not by constraint or severity shall you have access to true wisdom, but by abandonment, and childlike mirth-fulness. If you would know aught, be gay before it (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be stranger to him as he is more familiar to the audience. The longest intimacy could not foretell how he would behave then (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
This American government - what is it but a tradition, though a recent one, endeavoring to transmit itself unimpaired to posterity, but each instant losing some of its integrity? It has not the vitality and force of a single living man; for a single man can bend it to his will (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
Measure your health by your sympathy with morning and spring. If there is no response in you to the awakening of nature -if the prospect of an early morning walk does not banish sleep, if the warble of the first bluebird does not thrill you -know that the morning and spring of your life are past. Thus may you feel your pulse (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
Must be out-of-doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)