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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  • If I repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior.
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  • If we were left solely to the wordy wit of legislators in Congress for our guidance, uncorrected by the seasonal experience and the effectual complaints of the people, America would not long retain her rank among the nations.
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  • If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.
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  • In the long run you hit only what you aim at. Therefore, though you should fail immediately, you had better aim at something high.
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  • It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.
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  • It seems to me that the god that is commonly worshipped in civilized countries is not at all divine, though he bears a divine name, but is the overwhelming authority and respectability of mankind combined. Men reverence one another, not yet God.
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  • It takes two to speak the truth, one to speak, and another to hear.
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  • Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each. Let them be your only diet drink and botanical medicines.
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  • Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.
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  • Most men would feel insulted if it were proposed to employ them in throwing stones over a wall, and then in throwing them back, merely that they might earn their wages. But many are no more worthily employed now.
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  • Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
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  • On the death of a friend, we should consider that the fates through confidence have devolved on us the task of a double living, that we have henceforth to fulfill the promise of our friend's life also, in our own, to the world.
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  • Pity the man who has a character to support - it is worse than a large family - he is silent poor indeed.
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  • Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
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  • Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
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  • Speech is for the convenience of those who are hard of hearing; but there are many fine things which we cannot say if we have to shout.
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  • That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
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  • The boy gathers materials for a temple, and then when he is thirty, concludes to build a woodshed.
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  • The generative energy, which, when we are loose, dissipates and makes us unclean, when we are continent invigorates and inspires us. Chastity is the flowering of man; and what are called Genius, Heroism, Holiness, and the like, are but various fruits which succeed it.
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  • The government of the world I live in was not framed, like that of Britain, in after-dinner conversations over the wine.
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