All Henry David Thoreau Quotes
Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through, and you could go in the back way.
Henry David Thoreau
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It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.
Henry David Thoreau
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Every people have gods to suit their circumstances.
Henry David Thoreau
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What you get by achieving your goals is to as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Henry David Thoreau
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The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
Henry David Thoreau
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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.
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How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.
Henry David Thoreau
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If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
Henry David Thoreau
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I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.
Henry David Thoreau
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Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.
Henry David Thoreau
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It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate.
Henry David Thoreau
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If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.
Henry David Thoreau
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As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
Henry David Thoreau
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Where there is an observatory and a telescope, we expect that any eyes will see new worlds at once.
Henry David Thoreau
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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.
Henry David Thoreau
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