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 words which express our faith and piety are not definite; yet they are significant and fragrant like frankincense to superior natures.
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  • There are nine hundred and ninety-nine patrons of virtue to one virtuous man.
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  • There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
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  • There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.
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  • There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted.
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  • There is no remedy for love than to love more.
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  • There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.
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  • There is one consolation in being sick; and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before.
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  • Things do not change, we do.
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  • Things do not change; we change.
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  • Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.
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  • Time is but the stream I go fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It's thin current slides away, but eternity remains.
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  • To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour.
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  • To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.
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  • To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning.
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  • To inherit property is not to be born - it is to be still-born, rather.
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  • To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.
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  • True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
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  • Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.
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  • Visit the Navy-Yard, and behold a marine, such a man as an American government can make, or such as it can make a man with its black arts - a mere shadow and reminiscence of humanity, a man laid out alive and standing, and already, as one may say, buried under arms with funeral accompaniments.
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