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Who can predict his comings and goings? His business calls him out at all hours, even when doctors sleep (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
I find it wholesome to be alone the better part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only. Money is not required to buy one necessary of the soul (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
In the long run you hit only what you aim at. Therefore, though you should fail immediately, you had better aim at something high (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
I do not know how to distinguish between our waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the life that we imagine we are? (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
Whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can commit the least act of injustice against the obscurest individual without having to pay the penalty for it (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
As to conforming outwardly, and living your own life inwardly, I have not a very high opinion of that course (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing about the origin and destiny of cats? (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
Good poetry seems too 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)
When any real progress is made, we unlearn and learn anew what we thought we knew before (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
He is the best sailor who can steer within the fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
How can they expect a harvest of thought who have not had the seed time of character (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
We shall see but little way if we require to understand what we see. How few things can a man measure with the tape of his understanding! How many greater things might he be seeing in the meanwhile! (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
The very thrills of genius are disorganizing. The body is never quite acclimated to its atmosphere, but how often, succumbs and goes into a decline (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
The frontiers are not east or west, north or south, but wherever a man confronts a fact (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
Would the face of nature be so serene and beautiful if man’s destiny were not equally so (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
For every ten people who are clipping at the branches of evil, you’re lucky to find one who’s hacking at the roots (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
Homeliness is almost as great a merit in a book as in a house, if the reader would abide there. It is next to beauty, and a very high art (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
Decay and disease are often beautiful, like the pearly tear of the shellfish and the hectic glow of consumption (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
Only that traveling is good which reveals to me the value of home, and enables me to enjoy it better (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
The greatest and saddest defect is not credulity, but an habitual forgetfulness that our science is ignorance (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
We are ashamed of our fear; for we know that a righteous man would not suspect danger nor incur any. Wherever a man feels fear, there is an avenger (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
I have climbed several higher mountains without guide or path, and have found, as might be expected, that it takes only more time and patience commonly than to travel the smoothest highway (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
Let a man take time enough for the most trivial deed, though it be but the paring of his nails. The buds swell imperceptibly, without hurry or confusion, as if the short spring days were an eternity (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones. Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man’s features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
Books that are books are all that you want, and there are but half a dozen in any thousand (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
Wealth cannot purchase any great private solace or convenience. Riches are only the means of sociality (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)