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Henry David Thoreau  Quotes
This curious world we inhabit is more wonderful than convenient; more beautiful than it is useful; it is more to be admired and enjoyed than used.

—Henry David Thoreau

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BeautyCreationNature
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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.

—Henry David Thoreau

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HopeNature
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When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.

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God himself culminates in the present moment, and will never be more divine in the lapse of all the ages. And we are enabled to apprehend at all what is sublime and noble only by...

—Henry David Thoreau

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GodOmnipresence
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If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

—Henry David Thoreau

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AspirationsCastles-In-The-AirDreams
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You shall see rude and sturdy, experienced and wise men, keeping their castles, or teaming up their summer’s wood, or chopping alone in the woods, men fuller of talk and rare adventure in the sun...

—Henry David Thoreau

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AgricultureInspirational-LifeLife-Philosophy
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Age is no better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it has lost. One may almost doubt if the wisest man has learned anything...

—Henry David Thoreau

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AgeAgeingLearning
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Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his conscience, then? I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward. It is not desirable to cultivate a respect...

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Civil-DisobedienceJustice
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I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success...

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Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short.” [Letter to Harrison Blake; November 16, 1857]

—Henry David Thoreau

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ConcisenessPrecisionStorytelling
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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

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LifeSelf-ActualizationUnrealized-Potential
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Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.

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Philosophy
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It is remarkable that, notwithstanding the universal favor with which the New Testament is outwardly received, and even the bigotry with which it is defended, there is no hospitality shown to, there is no appreciation...

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ChristianityNew-TestamentReligion
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Yet, for my part, I was never usually squeamish; I could sometimes eat a fried rat with a good relish, if it were necessary. I am glad to have drunk water so long, for the...

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HumorMusicProphetic
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While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them

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Humanity
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It is not that we love to be alone, but that we love to soar, and when we do soar, the company grows thinner and thinner until there is none at all. …We are not...

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EnlightenmentGrowth
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Which is the best man to deal with,-he who knows nothing about a subject, and, what is extremely rare, knows that he knows nothing, or he who really knows something about it, but thinks that...

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IgnoranceKnowledge
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A common and natural result of an undue respect of law is, that you may see a file of soldiers, colonel, captain, corporal, privates, powder-monkeys, and all, marching in admirable order over hill and dale...

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LawRespectSoldiers
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Man is an animal who more than any other can adapt himself to all climates and circumstances.

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Mankind
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Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

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InspirationalRegretRetrospect
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When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.

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FearRealityWisdom
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The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.

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Friendship
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Everyone must believe in something. I believe I’ll go canoeing.

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CanoeingNature
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It is not for a man to put himself in such an attitude to society, but to maintain himself in whatever attitude he find himself through obedience to the laws of his being, which will...

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MoralitySelf-BeliefSociety
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It’s too late to be studying Hebrew; it’s more important to understand even the slang of today.

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AdaptationBeing-InformedCulture
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Society is commonly too cheap. We meet at very short intervals, not having had time to acquire any new value for each other.We meet at meals three times a day, and give each other a...

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AntisocialIntroversionIntrovert
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Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.

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IndependenceIndividualitySelf-Reliance
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Some of you, we all know, are poor, find it hard to live, are sometimes, as it were, gasping for breath. I have no doubt that some of you who read this book are unable...

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DebtPoorSaving
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Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live.

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Inspirational
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Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.

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CharactersDreamsTouchstones
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To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical...

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NaturePhilosophy
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It is only when we forget our learning, do we begin to know.

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LearningUnderstanding
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si elle (la loi) est d’une telle nature qu’elle fasse de vous l’agent de l’injustice vis-à-vis d’autrui alors je déclare qu’il faut enfreindre la loi

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Justice
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It is truly enough said that a corporation has no conscience. But a corporation of conscientious men is a corporation with a conscience.

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Conscience
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The lakes are something which you are unprepared for; they lie up so high, exposed to the light, and the forest is diminished to a fine fringe on their edges, with here and there a...

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Water
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Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you’ve imagined.

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ConfidenceDreamsInspirational
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To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity...

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Philosophy
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There is an incessant influx of novelty into the world, and yet we tolerate incredible dulness. I need only suggest what kind of sermons are still listened to in the most enlightened countries. There are...

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EmotionReligionRoutine
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So thoroughly and sincerely are we compelled to live, reverencing our life, and denying the possibility of change. This is the only way, we say; but there are as many ways as there can be...

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ChangeLifePossibility
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Visit the Navy-Yard, and behold a marine, such a man as an American government can make, or such as it can make a man with its black arts, -a mere shadow and reminiscence of humanity,...

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HeroHumanityJustice
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What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.

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FateMindfulness
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What is most of our boasted so-called knowledge but a conceit that we know something, which robs us of the advantage of our actual ignorance?

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IgnoranceKnowledge
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It is never too late to give up your prejudices

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DiversityOpen-Mindedness
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Some of my pleasantest hours were during the long rain-storms in the spring or fall, which confined me to the house for the afternoon as well as the forenoon, soothed by their ceaseless roar and...

—Henry David Thoreau

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Rain
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I am a happy camper so I guess I’m doing something right. Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to...

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HappinessInspirational
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Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.

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NightWisdom
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Friends… they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.

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FriendsFriendship
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I thus found that the student who wishes for a shelter can obtain one for a lifetime at an expense not greater than the rent which he now pays annually. If I seem to boast...

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EcologyNatureThe-Woods
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They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar

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ArchitectureClassPoverty
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The fate of the country… does not depend on what kind of paper you drop into the ballot-box once a year, but on what kind of man you drop from your chamber into the street...

—Henry David Thoreau

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