Henry David Thoreau Quotes

If I knew...that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.

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I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms....

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For every thousand hacking at the leaves of evil, there is one striking at the root.

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It is not worth while to go around the world to count the cats in Zanzibar.

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Philanthropy is almost the only virtue which is sufficiently appreciated by mankind.

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Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg, by the side of which more will be laid.

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With all your science can you tell how it is, and whence it is, that Light comes into the soul

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There is a difference between eating and drinking for strength and for mere gluttony.

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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.

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One 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.

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In accumulating property for ourselves or our posterity, in founding a family or a state, or acquiring fame even, we are mortal but in dealing with truth we are immortal, and need fear no change nor accident.

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We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke straps our vice.

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Make the most of your regrets never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it come to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.

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We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character.

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For what are the classics but the noblest thoughts of man They are the only oracles which are not decayed, and there are such answers to the most modern inquiry in them as Delphi and Dodona never gave. We might as well omit to study Nature because she is old.

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It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

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It's never too late to give up our prejudices.

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It is easier to sail many thousand miles through cold and storm and cannibals, in a government ship, with five hundred men and boys to assist one, than it is to explore the private sea, the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean of one's being alone. It is not worth the while to go round the world to count the cats in Zanzibar.

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Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

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If misery loves company, misery has company enough.

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We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones.

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Drive a nail home and clinch it so faithfully that you can wake up in the night and think of your work with satisfaction a work at which you would not be ashamed to invoke the muse.

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I do not know but thoughts written down thus in a journal might be printed in the same form with greater advantage than if the related ones were brought together into separate essays.

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Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only. Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.

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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 that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn.

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