Henry Thoreau Quotes

We have not so good a right to hate any as our Friend.

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I say, break the law.

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When you knock, ask to see God - none of the servants.

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It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

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Farmers are respectable and interesting to me in proportion as they are poor.

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I respect not his labors, his farm where everything has its price, who would carry the landscape, who would carry his God, to market, if he could get anything for him who goes to market for his god as it is on whose farm nothing grows free, whose fields bear no crops, whose meadows no flowers, whose trees no fruits, but dollars.

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Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.

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Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

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I would not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.

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You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.

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We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

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We need the tonic of wildness, to wade sometimes in marshes where the bittern and the meadow-hen lurk, and hear the booming of the snipe to smell the whispering sedge where only some wilder and more solitary fowl builds her nest, and the mink crawls with its belly close to the ground.

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What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.

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