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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  • Water is the only drink for a wise man.
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  • We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character.
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  • We are constantly invited to be who we are.
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  • We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light.
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  • We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being.
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  • We are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspected.
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  • We cannot well do without our sins; they are the highway of our virtue.
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  • We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.
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  • We falsely attribute to men a determined character - putting together all their yesterdays - and averaging them - we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support - it is worse than a large family - he is the silent poor indeed.
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  • We hate the kindness which we understand.
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  • We have not so good a right to hate any as our Friend.
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  • We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.
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  • We live thick and are in each other's way, and stumble over one another, and I think we thus lose some respect for one another.
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  • We must have infinite faith in each other. If we have not, we must never let it leak out that we have not.
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  • We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.
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  • We need only travel enough to give our intellects an airing.
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  • We need the tonic of wildness, to wade sometimes in marshes where the bittern and the meadow-hen lurk, and hear the booming of the snipe; to smell the whispering sedge where only some wilder and more solitary fowl builds her nest, and the mink crawls with its belly close to the ground.
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  • We perceive and are affected by changes too subtle to be described.
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  • We seem but to linger in manhood to tell the dreams of our childhood, and they vanish out of memory ere we learn the language.
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  • We shall see but little way if we require to understand what we see. How few things can a man measure with the tape of his understanding! How many greater things might he be seeing in the meanwhile!
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