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I came into this world, not chiefly to make this a good place to live in, but to live in it, be it good or bad (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
I am as desirous of being a good neighbor as I am of being a bad subject (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
The progress from an absolute to a limited monarchy, from a limited monarchy to a democracy, is a progress toward a true respect for the individual (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
Gradually the village murmur subsided, and we seemed to be embarked on the placid current of our dreams, floating from past to future as silently as one awakes to fresh morning or evening thoughts (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
You can hardly convince a man of an error in a lifetime, but must content yourself with the reflection that the progress of science is slow. If he is not convinced, his grandchildren may be (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
There are various, nay, incredible faiths; why should we be alarmed at any of them? What man believes, God believes (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
A true account of the actual is the rarest poetry, for common sense always takes a hasty and superficial view (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
Those services which the community will most readily pay for it is most disagreeable to render. You are paid for being something less than a man (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
It is remarkable that among all the preachers there are so few moral teachers. The prophets are employed in excusing the ways of men (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
Of what significance the things you can forget? A little thought is sexton to all the world (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
We do not live for idle amusement. I would not run round a corner to see the world blow up (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
The finest manners in the world are awkwardness and fatuity, when contrasted with a finer intelligence (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
Where there is a lull of truth, an institution springs up. But the truth blows right on over it, nevertheless, and at length blows it down (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you’ve imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
Most men cry better than they speak. You get more nurture out of them by pinching than addressing them (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
We cannot but pity the boy who has never fired a gun; he is no more humane, while his education has been sadly neglected (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
Good for the body is the work of the body, and good for the soul is the work of the soul, and good for either is the work of the other (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward. It is not so desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
The objections which have been brought against a standing army, and they are many and weighty, and deserve to prevail, may also at last be brought against a standing government (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
Don’t spend your time in drilling soldiers, who may turn out hirelings after all, but give to undrilled peasantry a country to fight for (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
Our least deed, like the young of the land crab, wends its way to the sea of cause and effect as soon as born, and makes a drop there to eternity (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance. Observe how the greatest minds yield in some degree to the superstitions of their age (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
With respect to wit, I learned that there was not much difference between the half and the whole (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
No humane being, past the thoughtless age of boyhood, will wantonly murder any creature which holds its life by the same tenure that he does (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
Almost any man knows how to earn money, but not one in a million knows how to spend it. If he had known so much as this, he would never have earned it (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)