All Henry David Thoreau Quotes
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.
Henry David Thoreau
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How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
Henry David Thoreau
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The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
Henry David Thoreau in
Life
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Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
Henry David Thoreau
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It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious.
Henry David Thoreau
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Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.
Henry David Thoreau in
Nature
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Dreams are the touchstones of our character.
Henry David Thoreau in
Dreams
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It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all.
Henry David Thoreau
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That government is best which governs least.
Henry David Thoreau in
Government
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Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.
Henry David Thoreau
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We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.
Henry David Thoreau
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Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
Henry David Thoreau in
Dreams
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Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends... Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.
Henry David Thoreau
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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 in
Nature
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A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
Henry David Thoreau
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