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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  • Many of the phenomena of Winter are suggestive of an inexpressible tenderness and fragile delicacy. We are accustomed to hear this king described as a rude and boisterous tyrant; but with the gentleness of a lover he adorns the tresses of Summer.
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  • Men are born to succeed, not fail.
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  • Men have become the tools of their trade.
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  • Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.
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  • My facts shall be falsehoods to the common sense. I would so state facts that they shall be significant, shall be myths or mythologies. Facts which the mind perceived, thoughts which the body thought - with these I deal.
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  • Nations! What are nations? Tartars! and Huns! and Chinamen! Like insects they swarm. The historian strives in vain to make them memorable. It is for want of a man that there are so many men. It is individuals that populate the world.
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  • Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought. Every man is the lord of a realm beside which the earthly empire of the Czar is but a petty state, a hummock left by the ice.
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  • Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.
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  • None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm
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  • Nowadays the host does not admit you to his hearth, but has got the mason to build one for yourself somewhere in his alley, and hospitality is the art of keeping you at the greatest distance.
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  • Of what significance are the things you can forget.
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  • One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be stranger to him as he is more familiar to the audience. The longest intimacy could not foretell how he would behave then
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  • One of the most attractive things about the flowers is their beautiful reserve.
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  • Only the traveling is good which reveals to me the value of home and enables me to enjoy it better.
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  • Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.
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  • Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify, simplify! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb-nail.
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  • Our manners have been corrupted by communication with the saints.
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  • Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have left an indelible impression, and we are ever and anon reminded of them.
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  • Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice.
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  • People die of fright and live of confidence.
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