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I am convinced, both by faith and experience, that to maintain one's self on this earth is not a hardship but a passtime, if we live simply and wisely
— Henry David Thoreau
A man's whole life is taxed for the least thing well done. It is its net result.
— Henry David Thoreau
In some countries a hunting parson is no uncommon sight. Such a one might make a good shepherd's dog, but is far from being the Good Shepherd.
— Henry David Thoreau
A man's interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.
— Henry David Thoreau
A man's riches are based on what he can do without.
— Henry David Thoreau
That man is richest who's pleasure are cheapest.
— Henry David Thoreau
A man's wealth is measured by what he doesn't need.
— Henry David Thoreau
We cannot put a noose around another man's neck without first hanging ourselves.
— Henry David Thoreau
A hero's love is as delicate as a maiden's.
— Henry David Thoreau
He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate.
— Henry David Thoreau
Whenever I read anything by Henry David Thoreau I honestly feel as though he's with me. No. More like I am with him.
— Nicholas Trandahl
Friends ... They are kind to each other's hopes. They cherish each other's dreams.
— Henry David Thoreau
In solitude especialy do we begin to appreciate the advantage of living with someone who can think.
— Henry David Thoreau
There is more religion in men's science, than there is science in their religion.
— Henry David Thoreau
It's not enough to be busy; so are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?" - Henry David Thoreau
— Brian P. Moran
Now-a-days, men wear a fool's cap, and call it a liberty cap.
— Henry David Thoreau
The art of life, of a poet's life, is, not having anything to do, to do something.
— Henry David Thoreau
For the most part, the best man's spirit makes a fearful sprite to haunt his grave.
— Henry David Thoreau
The Indian's intercourse with Nature is at least such as admits of the greatest independence of each.
— Henry David Thoreau
It is no more dusky in ordinary nights than our mind's habitual atmosphere, and the moonlight is as bright as our most illuminatedmoments are.
— Henry David Thoreau
Friends will be much apart. They will respect more each other's privacy than their communion.
— Henry David Thoreau
To have made even one person's life a little better, that is to succeed.
— Henry David Thoreau
Man's moral nature is a riddle which only eternity can solve.
— Henry David Thoreau
Friendship is evanescent in every man's experience, and remembered like heat lightning in past summers.
— Henry David Thoreau
Simple and sincere account of his own life, and not merely what he has heard of other men's lives;
— Henry David Thoreau
The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.
— Henry David Thoreau
Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice.
— Henry David Thoreau
In a pleasant spring morning all men's sins are forgiven.
— Henry David Thoreau
It's too late to be studying Hebrew; it's more important to understand even the slang of today.
— Henry David Thoreau
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.
— Henry David Thoreau
Unpremeditated music is the true gauge which measures the current of our thoughts; the very undertow of our life's stream.
— Henry David Thoreau
The same soil is good for men and for trees. A man's health requires as many acres of meadow to his prospect as his farm does loads of muck.
— Henry David Thoreau
It's not enough to be busy.
— Henry David Thoreau
That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as another s. We see so much only as we possess.
— Henry David Thoreau
It's only by forgetting yourself that you draw near to God.
— Henry David Thoreau
In Adam's fall We sinned all. In the new Adam's rise, We shall all reach the skies.
— Henry David Thoreau
It's hard for the modern generation to understand Thoreau, who lived beside a pond but didn't own water skis or a snorkel.
— Loudon Wainwright III
It is as hard to see one's self as to look backwards without turning around.
— Henry David Thoreau
I have so many favorite writers, it's very hard to select a few ... of classic writers, I have always admired Emily Dickinson and Henry David Thoreau.
— Joyce Carol Oates
Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.
— Henry David Thoreau
What fire could ever equal the sunshine of a winter's day?
— Henry David Thoreau
The tragedy in a man's life is what dies inside of him while he lives.
— Henry David Thoreau
When it's time to die, let us not discover that we have never lived.
— Henry David Thoreau
Morning work! By the blushes of Aurora and the music of Memnon, what should be man's morning work in this world?
— Henry David Thoreau
To be admitted to Nature's hearth costs nothing. None is excluded, but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain.
— Henry David Thoreau
I should be glad if all the meadows on the earth were left in a wild state, if that were the consequence of men's beginning to redeem themselves.
— Henry David Thoreau
I will not through humility become the devil's attorney
— Henry David Thoreau
There's no new news, just old news with new dates
— Henry David Thoreau
All these sounds, the crowing of cocks, the baying of dogs, and the hum of insects at noon, are the evidence of nature's health orsound state.
— Henry David Thoreau
Circumstantial evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
— Henry David Thoreau
It's circumstantial evidence, like finding a trout in the milk.
— Henry David Thoreau
What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
— Henry David Thoreau
The stars are God's dreams, thoughts remembered in the silence of his night.
— Henry David Thoreau
Far from New England's blustering shore,New England's worm her hulk shall bore,And sink her in the Indian seas,Twine, wine, and hides, and China teas.
— Henry David Thoreau
The church is a sort of hospital for men's souls and as full of quackery as the hospital for their bodies.
— Henry David Thoreau
Art is not tame, and Nature is not wild, in the ordinary sense. A perfect work of man's art would also be wild or natural in a good sense.
— Henry David Thoreau
Color, which is the poet's wealth, is so expensive that most take to mere outline sketches and become men of science.
— Henry David Thoreau
The sport of digging the bait is nearly equal to that of catching the fish, when one's appetite is not too keen.
— Henry David Thoreau
Concord's little arch does not span all our fate, nor is what transpires under it law for the universe.
— Henry David Thoreau
I do not know at first what it is that harms me. The men and things of to-day are wont to be fairer and truer in to-morrow's memory.
— Henry David Thoreau
A lawyer's truth is not Truth. It is consistency, or consistent expediency
— Henry David Thoreau
The other thing that happened in 1883 was my reading of Thoreau's Walden.
— Edward Carpenter
Friends ... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.
— Henry David Thoreau
Poetry cannot breathe in the scholar's atmosphere.
— Henry David Thoreau
It must be confessed that horses at present work too exclusively for men, rarely men for horses; and the brute degenerates in man's society.
— Henry David Thoreau
My life is like a stroll upon the beach, as near to the ocean's edge as I can go.
— Henry David Thoreau
Being a teacher is like being in jail; once it's on your record, you can never get rid of it.
— Henry David Thoreau
The stars are the jewels of the night, and perchance surpass anything which day has to show.
— Henry David Thoreau
Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life. This life in the present.
— Henry David Thoreau
What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.
— Henry David Thoreau
A thoroughbred business man cannot enter heartily upon the business of life without first looking into his accounts.
— Henry David Thoreau
The body can feed the body only.
— Henry David Thoreau
Genius is a light which makes the darkness visible, like the lightning's flash, which perchance shatters the temple of knowledge itself.
— Henry David Thoreau
I love reform better than its modes.
— Henry David Thoreau
Art may varnish and gild, but it can do no more.
— Henry David Thoreau
Fishing has been styled 'a contemplative man's recreation,' ... and science is only a more contemplative man's recreation.
— Henry David Thoreau
The head monkey at Paris puts on a traveller's cap, and all the monkeys in America do the same.
— Henry David Thoreau
I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in it's gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals.
— Henry David Thoreau
We are older by faith than by experience.
— Henry David Thoreau
When a man's conscience and the laws clash, it is his conscience that he must follow.
— Henry David Thoreau
I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.
— Henry David Thoreau
It requires more than a day's devotion to know and to possess the wealth of a day.
— Henry David Thoreau
We live thick and are in each other's way, and stumble over one another, and I think we thus lose some respect for one another.
— Henry David Thoreau
Civil disobedience has almost always been about expression. Generally, it's nonviolent, as defined by Henry David Thoreau, Gandhi, and King.
— Marvin Ammori
But man's capacities have never been measured; nor are we to judge of what he can do by any precedents, so little have been tried.
— Henry David Thoreau
The flowers of the apple are perhaps the most beautiful of any tree's, so copious and so delicious to both sight and scent.
— Henry David Thoreau
We are a nation of politicians, concerned about the outmost defenses only of freedom. It is our children's children who may perchance be really free.
— Henry David Thoreau
A man's ignorance sometimes is not only useful, but beautiful-while his knowledge, so called, is oftentimes worse than useless, besides being ugly.
— Henry David Thoreau
Our taste is too delicate and particular. It says nay to the poet's work, but never yea to his hope.
— Henry David Thoreau
Knight's disdain for Thoreau was bottomless - 'he had no deep insight into nature'...
— Michael Finkel
If within the sophisticated man there is not an unsophisticated one, then he is but one of the devil's angels.
— Henry David Thoreau
Indeed, the Englishman's history of New England commences only when it ceases to be New France.
— Henry David Thoreau
I am of the nature of Stone. It takes the summer's sun to warm it.
— Henry David Thoreau
The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the alms-house as brightly as from the rich man's abode.
— Henry David Thoreau
Be yourself- not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should be.
— Henry David Thoreau
We go on dating from Cold Fridays and Great Snows; but a little colder Friday, or greater snow would put a period to man's existence on the globe.
— Henry David Thoreau
It's not worth our while to let our imperfections disturb us always.
— Henry David Thoreau
Why should not a poet's cat be winged as well as his horse?
— Henry David Thoreau