Quotes by Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau

American writer

Lived from: 1817 - 1862

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 12 july 1817 Died: 6 may 1862

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  • Politics is the gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel.
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  • Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.
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  • Should not every apartment in which man dwells be lofty enough to create some obscurity overhead, where flickering shadows may play at evening about the rafters?
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  • Sobriety, severity, and self-respect are the foundations of all true sociality.
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  • Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.
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  • Sometimes we are inclined to class those who are once-and-a-half witted with the half-witted, because we appreciate only a third part of their wit.
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  • Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
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  • Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only. Money is not required to buy one necessary of the soul.
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  • That government is best which governs least.
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  • That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.
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  • That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as another s. We see so much only as we possess.
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  • The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.
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  • The broadest and most prevalent error requires the most disinterested virtue to sustain it.
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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.
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  • The eye is the jewel of the body.
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  • The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument.
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  • The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly.
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  • The heart is forever inexperienced.
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  • The highest law gives a thing to him who can use it.
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  • The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.
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