Henry David Thoreau quotes - page 12

The true harvest of my life is intangible - a little star dust caught, a portion of the rainbow I have clutched. (Henry David Thoreau)
Renew thyself completely each day. View quote
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No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well. View quote
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It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil. View quote
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I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while. View quote
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Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces. View quote
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Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution. View quote
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While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings. View quote
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I saw that the State was half-witted, that it was timid as a lone woman with her silver spoons, and that it did not know its friends from its foes, and I lost all my remaining respect for it, and pitied it. View quote
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I am alarmed when it happens that I have walked a mile into the woods bodily, without getting there in spirit. View quote
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To regret deeply is to live afresh. (Henry David Thoreau)
What is called genius is the abundance of life and health. View quote
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Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity. View quote
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In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society. View quote
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Those whom we can love, we can hate; to others we are indifferent. View quote
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This whole earth in which we inhabit is but a point is space. View quote
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I will come to you, my friend, when I no longer need you. Then you will find a palace, not an almshouse. View quote
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I know that some will have hard thoughts of me, when they hear their Christ named beside my Buddha, yet I am sure that I am willing they should love their Christ more than my Buddha, for the love is the main thing, and I like him too. View quote
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The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right. View quote
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I am convinced that if all men were to live as simply as I then did, thieving and robbery would be unknown. These take place only in communities where some have got more than is sufficient while others have not enough. View quote
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As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society. (Henry David Thoreau)
If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself. View quote
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It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man. View quote
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As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution. View quote
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There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance. View quote
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