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.'
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high.Henry David Thoreau
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It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are...
than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.Henry David Thoreau
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If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.Henry David Thoreau
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Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.Henry David Thoreau
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Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.Henry David Thoreau
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Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?Henry David Thoreau
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Let go of the past and go for the future. Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you imagined.Henry David Thoreau
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Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.Henry David Thoreau
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One must maintain a little bit of summer, even in the middle of winter.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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What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.Henry David Thoreau
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With all your science - can you tell how it is, and whence it is, that light comes into the soul?Henry David Thoreau
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There is one consolation in being sick; and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before.Henry David Thoreau
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Tis healthy to be sick sometimes.Henry David Thoreau
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Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.Henry David Thoreau
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Gardening is civil and social, but it wants the vigor and freedom of the forest and the outlaw.Henry David Thoreau
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Be not simply good; be good for something.Henry David Thoreau
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The language of friendship is not words but meanings.Henry David Thoreau
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Nothing makes the earth so spacious as to have friends at a distance.Henry David Thoreau
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The language of friendship is not words , but rather meanings . It is an intelligence above language.Henry David Thoreau
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That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.Henry David Thoreau
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It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.Henry David Thoreau
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The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.Henry David Thoreau
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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.Henry David Thoreau
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All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.Henry David Thoreau
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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.Henry David Thoreau
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All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong.Henry David Thoreau
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The heart is forever inexperienced.Henry David Thoreau
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The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?Henry David Thoreau
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Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.Henry David Thoreau