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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  • Experience is in the fingers and head. The heart is inexperienced.
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  • Explore thyself. Herein are demanded the eye and the nerve.
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  • Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.
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  • Faith never makes a confession.
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  • Farmers are respectable and interesting to me in proportion as they are poor.
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  • For eighteen hundred years, though perchance I have no right to say it, the New Testament has been written; yet where is the legislator who has wisdom and practical talent enough to avail himself of the light which it sheds on the science of legislation?
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  • For many years I was a self-appointed inspector of snowstorms and rainstorms and did my duty faithfully, though I never received payment for it.
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  • Give me the poverty that enjoys true wealth.
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  • Glances of true beauty can be seen in the faces of those who live in true meekness.
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  • Good poetry seems too simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder that all men are not always poets. Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.
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  • Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
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  • Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient. The objections which have been brought against a standing army, and they are many and weighty, and deserve to prevail, may also at last be brought against a standing government.
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  • Having each some shingles of thought well dried, we sat and whittled them.
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  • He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate.
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  • He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.
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  • He who distinguishes the true savor of his food can never be a glutton; he who does not cannot be otherwise.
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  • Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
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  • How can they expect a harvest of thought who have not had the seed time of character.
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  • How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?
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  • However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are the richest.
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