All Henry David Thoreau Quotes
The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
Henry David Thoreau in
Friendship
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The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.
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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This world is but a canvas to our imagination.
Henry David Thoreau in
Art
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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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It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
Henry David Thoreau in
Imagination
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Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
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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The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
Henry David Thoreau in
Friendship
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Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
Henry David Thoreau
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There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted.
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, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thoreau in
Dreams
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The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free.
Henry David Thoreau
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