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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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As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again....

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InspirationalInstructionalPower-Of-Thoughts
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I did not know that mankind were suffering for want of gold. I have seen a little of it. I know that it is very malleable, but not so malleable as wit. A grain of...

—Henry David Thoreau

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GoldLifeSuffering
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Le mieux que je puisse faire pour mon ami est d’être son ami.

—Henry David Thoreau

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Friendship
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I see young men, my townsmen, whose misfortune it is to have inherited farms, houses, barns, cattle, and farming tools; for these are more easily acquired than got rid of. Better if they had been...

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EcologyEconomicsNature
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Here is this vast, savage, howling mother of ours, Nature, lying all around, with such beauty, and such affection for her children, as the leopard; and yet we are so early weaned from her breast...

—Henry David Thoreau

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Society
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The government itself, which is only the mode which the people have chosen to execute their will, is equally liable to be abused and perverted before the people can act through it.

—Henry David Thoreau

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Government
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To enjoy a thing exclusively is commonly to exlcude yourself from the true enjoyment of it.

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Philosophical
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As for clothing, to come at once to the practical part of the question, perhaps we are led oftener by the love of novelty, and a regard for the opinions of men, in procuring it,...

—Henry David Thoreau

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FashionMinimalismWalden
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Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

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DreamsTruth
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In most books, the I, or first person, is omitted; in this it will be retained; that, in respect to egotism, is the main difference. We commonly do not remember that it is, after all,...

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CoatFirstMyself
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The book exists for us perchance which will explain our miracles and reveal new ones. The at present unutterable things we may find somewhere uttered. These same questions that disturb and puzzle and confound us...

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BooksLiteratureReading
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Thus the great civilizer sends out its emissaries, sooner or later, to every sandy cape and light-house of the New World which the census-taker visits, and summons the savage there to surrender.

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CivilizationNature
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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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Food
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A government which deliberately enacts injustice, and persists in it, will at length ever become the laughing-stock of the world.

—Henry David Thoreau

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JusticePolitics
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I hear of a convention to be held at Baltimore, or elsewhere, for the selection of a candidate for the Presidency, made up chiefly of editors, and men who are politicians by profession; but I...

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Electoral-CollegeIndependenceIndependent-Vote
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As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.

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Simplicity
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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I...

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DeathLifeLiving
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Sometimes, in a summer morning,having taken my accustomed bath, I sat in my sunny doorway from sunrisetill noon, rapt in a revery, amidst the pines and hickories and sumachs,in undisturbed solitude and stillness, while the...

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InspirationalPhilosophy
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Knowledge does not come to us by details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

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Inspiration
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Wildness is the preservation of the World.

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ConservationNatureWilderness
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The ways by which you may get money almost without exception lead downward. To have done anything by which you earned money merely is to have been truly idle or worse. If the laborer gets...

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Money
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The silence rings—it is musical & thrills me. A night in which the silence was audible—I hear the unspeakable.

—Henry David Thoreau

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Silence
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Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgress them at once?

—Henry David Thoreau

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GovermentLawsLiberation
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As for Doing-good…I have tried it fairly, and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.

—Henry David Thoreau

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Good-And-Evil
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I believe that, in this country, the press exerts a greater and a more pernicious influence than the church did in its worst period. We are not a religious people, but we are a nation...

—Henry David Thoreau

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MediaPoliticsReligion
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All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.

—Henry David Thoreau

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DesireInspirationalMake-A-Difference
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I silently smiled at my incessant good fortune.

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HappinessSmile
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One day when I went out to my wood-pile, or rather my pile of stumps, I observed two large ants, the one red, the other much larger, nearly half an inch long, and black, fiercely...

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AntsBlackField
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The sail, the play of its pulse so like our own lives: so thin and yet so full of life, so noiseless when it labors hardest, so noisy and impatient when least effective.

—Henry David Thoreau

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Nature
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I rejoice that horses and steers have to be broken before they can be made the slaves of men, and that men themselves have some wild oats still left to sow before they become submissive...

—Henry David Thoreau

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Men
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If there is any hell more unprincipled than our rulers, and we, the ruled, I feel curious to see it.

—Henry David Thoreau

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CynicalGovernmentPessimism
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What is a course of history, or philosophy, or poetry, no matter how well selected, or the best society, or the most admirable routine of life, compared with the discipline of looking always at what...

—Henry David Thoreau

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TranscendentalismZen
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The childish and savage taste of men and women for new patterns keeps how many shaking and squinting through kaleidoscopes that they may discover the particular figure which this generation requires to-day. The manufacturers have...

—Henry David Thoreau

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ApparelClothingConspicuous-Consumption
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It takes two to speak the truth – one to speak and another to hear.

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ListeningTruth
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Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. Books, the oldest and the best, stand naturally and rightfully on the shelves of every cottage. They have no...

—Henry David Thoreau

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Books-ReadingEducationEnlightenment
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Perhaps these pages are more particularly addressed to poor students. As for the rest of my readers, they will accept such portions as apply to them. I trust that none will stretch the seams in...

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MetaphorReading
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Perhaps this was the first instance of that quiet way of “speaking for” a place not yet occupied, or at least not improved as much as it may be, which their descendants have practised, and...

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AmericaNaturePhilosophy
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There is a difference between eating and drinking for strength and from mere gluttony.

—Henry David Thoreau

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EatingFood
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A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.

—Henry David Thoreau

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AffordLet-AloneNatural
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If a man is alive, there is always danger that he may die, though the danger must be allowed to be less in proportion as he is dead-and-alive to begin with. A man sits as...

—Henry David Thoreau

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RiskSafety
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Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Turn the old; return to them. Things do not change; we change. Sell your...

—Henry David Thoreau

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DependenceMaterialismSimplicity
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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 unexpected in common hours. He will put some things...

—Henry David Thoreau

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DreamsFutureLife
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My desire for knowledge is intermittent; but my desire to bathe my head in atmospheres unknown to my feet is perennial and constant. The highest that we can attain to is not Knowledge, but Sympathy...

—Henry David Thoreau

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Philosophy
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He who hears the rippling of rivers in these degenerate days will not utterly despair.

—Henry David Thoreau

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DepressionEnvironmentalHenry-David-Thoreau
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The aim of the laborer should be, not to get his living, to get “a good job,” but to perform well a certain work; and, even in a pecuniary sense, it would be economy for...

—Henry David Thoreau

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Money
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Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety as after disappointment; that background which the painter may not...

—Henry David Thoreau

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HermitSilenceSolitude
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Now-a-days, men wear a fool’s cap, and call it a liberty cap.

—Henry David Thoreau

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Liberty
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Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

—Henry David Thoreau

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IndividualityPassion
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