Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old Henry David Thoreau quotes, Henry David Thoreau sayings, and Henry David Thoreau proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.'
I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life.Henry David Thoreau
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Wherever a man goes, men will pursue him and paw him with their dirty institutions, and, if they can, constrain him to belong to their desperate odd-fellow society.Henry David Thoreau
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Everything may serve a lower as well as a higher use.Henry David Thoreau
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On tops of mountains, as everywhere to hopeful souls, it is always morning.Henry David Thoreau
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To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust.Henry David Thoreau
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We must walk consciously only part way toward our gold, and then leap into the dark to our success.Henry David Thoreau
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What’s the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on.Henry David Thoreau
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Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.Henry David Thoreau
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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.Henry David Thoreau
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If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined.Henry David Thoreau
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I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.Henry David Thoreau
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In company, that person who alone can understand you, you cannot get out of your mind.Henry David Thoreau
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Perfect sincerity and transparency make a great part of beauty, as in dewdrops, lakes, and diamonds.Henry David Thoreau
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Eastward I go only by force, but westward I go free.Henry David Thoreau
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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.Henry David Thoreau
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It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.Henry David Thoreau
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We need to witness our own limits transgressed, and some life pasturing freely where we never wander.Henry David Thoreau
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This world is but a canvas to our imagination.Henry David Thoreau
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Any fool can make a rule / And any fool will mind it.
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It is dry, hazy June weather. We are more of the earth, farther from heaven these days.Henry David Thoreau
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I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.Henry David Thoreau
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The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise.Henry David Thoreau
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I do not judge men by anything they can do. Their greatest deed is the impression they make on me.Henry David Thoreau
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The tops of mountains are among the unfinished parts of the globe, whether it is a slight insult to the gods to climb and pry into their secrets and try their effect on our humanity. Only daring and insolent men, perchance, go there.Henry David Thoreau
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Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live.Henry David Thoreau
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I have no doubt that they lived pretty much the same sort of life in the Homeric age, for men have always thought more of eating than of fighting; then, as now, their minds ran chiefly on the "hot bread and sweet cakes;" and the fur and lumber trade is an old story to Asia and Europe. Henry David Thoreau
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He is blessed over all mortals who loses no moment of the passing life in remembering the past.Henry David Thoreau
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It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart it being much more sensitive.Henry David Thoreau
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Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.Henry David Thoreau
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He is blessed over all mortals who loses no moment of the passing life in remembering the past.Henry David Thoreau