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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  • The laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day.
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  • The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
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  • The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free.
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  • The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.
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  • The man for who the law exists - the man of forms, the conservative - is a tame man.
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  • The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?
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  • The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
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  • The only wealth is life.
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  • The perch swallows the grub-worm, the pickerel swallows the perch, and the fisherman swallows the pickerel; and so all the chinks in the scale of being are filled.
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  • The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it.
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  • The purity men love is like the mists which envelope the earth, and not like the azure ether beyond.
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  • The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.
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  • The rich man is always sold to the institution which makes him rich. Absolutely speaking, the more money, the less virtue.
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  • The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.
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  • The stars are the apexes of what triangles!
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  • The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly.
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  • The sun is but a morning star.
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  • The universe seems bankrupt as soon as we begin to discuss the characters of individuals.
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  • The volatile truth of our words should continually betray the inadequacy of the residual statement.
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  • The way by which you may get money almost without exception leads downward.
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