Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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Henry David Thoreau Famous Quotes & Sayings
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With what infinite & unwearied expectation and proclamations the cocks usher in every dawn, as if there had never been one before.
One man lies in his words, and gets a bad reputation; another in his manners, and enjoys a good one.
If I were confined to a corner of a garret all my days, like a spider, the world would be just as large to me while I had my thoughts about me.
If the fairest features of the landscape are to be named after men, let them be the noblest and worthiest men alone.
Nature is mythical and mystical always, and works with the license and extravagance of genius. She has her luxurious and florid style as well as art.
Impulse is, after all, the best linguist; its logic, if not conformable to Aristotle, cannot fail to be most convincing.
All nations love the same jests and tales, Jews, Christians, and Mahometans, and the same translated suffice for all.
My eye is educated to discover anything on the ground, as chestnuts, etc. It is probably wholesomer to look at the ground much than at the heavens.
But they who are unconcerned about the consequences of their actions are not therefore unconcerned about their actions.
The virtues of a superior man are like the wind; the virtues of a common man are like the grass; the grass, when the wind passes over it, bends.
Events, circumstances, etc., have their origin in ourselves. They spring from seeds which we have sown.
How rarely I meet with a man who can be free, even in thought! We all live according to rule. Some men are bedridden; all world-ridden.
The chickadee and nuthatch are more inspiring society than statesmen and philosophers, and we shall return to these last as to more vulgar companions.
So much for a blind obedience to a blundering oracle, throwing the stones over their heads behind them, and not seeing where they fell.
When I meet a government which says to me, "Your money or your life," why should I be in haste to give it my money?
It is true, I never assisted the sun materially in his rising, but, doubt not, it was of the last importance only to be present at it.
A man may grow rich in Turkey even, if he will be in all respects a good subject of the Turkish government.
To be admitted to Nature's hearth costs nothing. None is excluded, but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain.
I have myself to respect, but to myself I am not amiable; but my friend is my amiableness personified.
There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.
The music of all creatures has to do with their loves, even of toads and frogs. Is it not the same with man?
The present hour is always wealthiest when it is poorer than the future ones, as that is the pleasantest site which affords the pleasantest prospect.
A slight sound at evening lifts me up by the ears, and makes life seem inexpressibly serene and grand. It may be Uranus, or it may be in the shutter.
The fact is, mental philosophy is very like Poverty, which, you know, begins at home; and indeed, when it goes abroad, it is poverty itself.
I now first began to inhabit my house, I may say, when I began to use it for warmth as well as shelter.
The scholar is not apt to make his most familiar experience come gracefully to the aid of his expression.
The walls that fence our fields, as well as modern Rome, and not less the Parthenon itself, are all built of ruins.
to stand on the meeting of two eternities, the past and future, which is precisely the present moment; to
Thus was my first year's life in the woods completed; and the second year was similar to it. I finally left Walden September 6th,1847.
As in many countries precious metals belong to the crown, so here more precious natural objects of rare beauty should belong to the public.
Where there is not discernment, the behavior even of the purest soul may in effect amount to coarseness.
My spirits infallibly rise in proportion to the outward dreariness. Give me the ocean, the desert, or the wilderness!
I love you not as something private and personal, which is my own, but as something universal and worthy of love which I have found.