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I found in myself, and still find, an instinct toward a higher, or, as it is named, spiritual life, as do most men, and another toward a primitive rank and savage one, and I reverence them both. I love the wild not less than the good (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
I will come to you, my friend, when I no longer need you. Then you will find a palace, not an almshouse (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
Thus men will lie on their backs, talking about the fall of man, and never make an effort to get up (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
Man wanted a home, a place for warmth, or comfort, first of physical warmth, then the warmth of the affections (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
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 (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
This curious world we inhabit is more wonderful than convenient; more beautiful than it is useful; it is more to be admired and enjoyed than used (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
I had three pieces of limestone on my desk, but I was terrified to find that they required to be dusted daily, when the furniture of my mind was all undusted still, and threw them out the window in disgust (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
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 (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
I am convinced that if all men were to live as simply as I then did, thieving and robbery would be unknown. These take place only in communities where some have got more than is sufficient while others have not enough (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
Life isn’t about finding yourself; it’s about creating yourself. So live the life you imagined (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
Writing your name can lead to writing sentences. And the next thing you’ll be doing is writing paragraphs, and then books. And then you’ll be in as much trouble as I am! (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
In any weather, at any hour of the day or night, I have been anxious to improve the nick of time, and notch it on my stick too; to stand on the meeting of two eternities, the past and future, which is precisely the present moment; to toe that line (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call voluntary poverty (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
Perhaps we should never procure a new suit, however ragged or dirty the old, until we have so conducted or enterprised or sailed in some way, that we feel like new men in the old, and that to retain it would be like keeping new wine in old bottles (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
No man ever stood the lower in my estimation for having a patch in his clothes: yet I am sure that there is greater anxiety, commonly, to have fashionable, or at least clean and unpatched clothes, than to have a sound conscience (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
Don’t be afraid that your life will end, be afraid that it will never begin! (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resigns his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man a conscience then? I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
As long as possible live free and uncommitted. It makes but little difference whether you are committed to a farm or the county jail (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
I have, as it were, my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life? We are determined to be starved before we are hungry (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
The cost of a thing is something called life which is given in exchange for it (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
The mason asks but a narrow shelf to spring his brick from; man requires only an infinitely narrower one to spring his arch of faith from (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
If one listens to the faintest but constant suggestions of his genius, which are certainly true, he sees not to what extremes, or even insanity, it may lead him; and yet that way, as he grows more resolute and faithful, his road lies (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
I come to my solitary woodland walk as the homesick go home. I thus dispose of the superfluous and see things as they are, grand and beautiful (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
What wisdom, what warning can prevail against gladness? There is no law so strong that a little gladness may not transgress (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
I felt a positive yearning toward one bush this afternoon. There was a match found for me at last. I fell in love with a shrub oak (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
Good poetry seems so simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder that all men are not always poets. Poetry is nothing but healthy speech (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
If I choose to devote myself to certain labors which yield more real profit, though but little money, they may be inclined to look on me as an idler (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
The frontiers are not east or west, north or south, but wherever a man fronts a fact (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)