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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  • All good things are cheap: all bad are very dear.
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  • All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong.
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  • An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
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  • As to conforming outwardly, and living your own life inwardly, I have not a very high opinion of that course.
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  • Associate reverently, as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts.
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  • Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
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  • Behave so the aroma of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere.
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  • Between whom there is hearty truth, there is love.
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  • Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.
    Walden (1854)
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  • But lo! men have become the tools of their tools.
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  • By avarice and selfishness, and a groveling habit, from which none of us is free, of regarding the soil as property, or the means of acquiring property chiefly, the landscape is deformed, husbandry is degraded with us, and the farmer leads the meanest of lives. He knows Nature but as a robber.
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  • Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
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  • Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. So aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.
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  • Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
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  • Do what you love. Know you own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.
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  • Don't be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.
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  • Dreams are the touchstones of our character.
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  • Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg by the side of which more will be laid.
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  • Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.
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  • Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships, after a style purely his own, nor can he get off by hammering marble instead. We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones.
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