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Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
I have never found the companion that was as companionable
as solitude. -Thoreau Let your capital be simplicity and contentment. -Henry David Thoreau, naturalist and author (1817-1862) The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when
one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer. -Henry David Thoreau,
naturalist and author (1817-1862) Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it. -Henry David Thoreau, naturalist and author (1817-1862) Nature is slow, but sure; she works no faster than need be; she is the tortoise that wins the race by her perseverance. -Henry David Thoreau, naturalist and author (1817-1862) Be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought. -Henry David Thoreau, naturalist and author (1817-1862) 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, naturalist and author (1817-1862)
Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes. There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid
for our suspicions by finding what we suspect. -Henry
David Thoreau, naturalist and author (1817-1862)
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We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect. -Henry David Thoreau Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared
with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of
himself, that it is which determines or rather indicates
his fate." --Henry David Thoreau A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. -Henry David Thoreau, naturalist and author (1817-1862) If...the machine of government...is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law. -Henry David Thoreau In times when the government imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also the prison. -Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed in them. -Henry David Thoreau, naturalist and author (1817-1862) It is difficult to begin without borrowing, but perhaps it is the most generous course thus to permit your fellow-men to have an interest in your enterprise. -Henry David Thoreau [Walden] Men have become the tools of their tools. -Henry David Thoreau, naturalist and author (1817-1862) Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only. -Henry David Thoreau, naturalist and author (1817-1862) My greatest skill has been to want but little. -Henry David Thoreau, naturalist and author (1817-1862) Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads. -Henry David Thoreau, naturalist and author (1817-1862) Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain. -Henry David Thoreau, naturalist and author (1817-1862) Spring is a natural resurrection, an experience in immortality. -Henry David Thoreau, naturalist and author (1817-1862) 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, naturalist and author (1817-1862) Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights. -Henry David Thoreau, naturalist and author (1817-1862) The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest. -Henry David Thoreau We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal and then leap in the dark to our success." — Henry David Thoreau, 1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist The cost of a thing is the amount of what I call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run. -Henry David Thoreau, naturalist and author (1817-1862) Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it. -Henry David Thoreau, naturalist and author (1817-1862) If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen. -Henry David Thoreau, naturalist and author (1817-1862) It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all. -Henry David Thoreau, naturalist and author (1817-1862) 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, naturalist and author (1817-1862) The bluebird carries the sky on his back. -Henry David Thoreau, naturalist and author (1817-1862) I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beech-tree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines. -Henry David Thoreau, naturalist and author (1817-1862) |
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