All Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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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The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.
Henry David Thoreau
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How many things there are concerning which we might well deliberate whether we had better know them.
Henry David Thoreau
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Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?
Henry David Thoreau
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It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
Henry David Thoreau in
Wisdom
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There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.
Henry David Thoreau
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Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.
Henry David Thoreau
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We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.
Henry David Thoreau
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I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
Henry David Thoreau
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Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
Henry David Thoreau in
Nature
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I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.
Henry David Thoreau in
Business
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What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.
Henry David Thoreau in
War
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Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men.
Henry David Thoreau
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Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.
Henry David Thoreau
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