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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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Life in us is like the water in a river.

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LifeWater
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In any weather, at any hour of the day or night, I have been anxious to improve the nick of time, and notch it on my stick too; to stand on the meeting of two...

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PhilosophyPresentThoreau
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The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.

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Friendship
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A lake is a landscape’s most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth’s eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.

—Henry David Thoreau

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NatureReflection
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To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise, and one that will task the reader more than any exercise which the customs of the day esteem....

—Henry David Thoreau

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Books-ReadingLiterature
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There is no such thing as accomplishing a righteous reform by the use of ‘expediency.’ There is no such thing as sliding up hill. In morals, the only sliders are backsliders.

—Henry David Thoreau

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MoralityPolitics
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I have an immense appetite for solitude, like an infant for sleep, and if I don’t get enough for this year, I shall cry all the next.

—Henry David Thoreau

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Solitude
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This whole earth which we inhabit is but a point in space. How far apart, think you, dwell the most distant inhabitants of yonder star, the breadth of whose disk cannot be appreciated by our...

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EarthSolitutdeSpace
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It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are… than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.

—Henry David Thoreau

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AtmosphereBreatheHead-In-The-Clouds
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There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

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ActivismEffectivenessInspirational
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Next to us is not the workman whom we have hired, with whom we love so well to talk, but the workman whose work we are.

—Henry David Thoreau

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CreationGod
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There was an artist in the city of Kouroo who was disposed to strive after perfection. One day it came into his mind to make a staff. Having considered that in an imperfect work time...

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Art
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The tops of mountains are among the unfinished parts of the globe, whither it is a slight insult to the gods to climb and pry into their secrets, and try their effect on our humanity....

—Henry David Thoreau

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ForestMaineMaine-Woods
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We hear and apprehend only what we already half know.

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Learning
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I would remind my countrymen that they are to be men first, and Americans only at a late and convenient hour.

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IdentityPatriotism
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Warum leben wir in solcher Hast, mit solcher Vergeudung von Leben? Wir glauben, Hungers zu sterben, bevor wir hungrig sind. Es heißt, “ein Stich zur rechten Zeit erspart neun andere” – also werden lieber gleich...

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GierHungerLeben
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They who suspect a Mephistophiles, or sneering, satirical devil, under all, have not learned the secret of true humor, which sympathizes with gods themselves, in view of their grotesque, half-finished creatures.

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HumorInspirationSatire
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I was once reproved by a minister who was driving a poor beast to some meeting-house horse-sheds among the hills of New Hampshire, because I was bending my steps to a mountain-top on the Sabbath,...

—Henry David Thoreau

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AmericaChurchCountry
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In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagvat Geeta, since whose composition years of the gods have elapsed, and in comparison with which our modern world and...

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Bhagavad-GitaBrahmaGanges
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Those things for which the most money is demanded are never the things which the student most wants. Tuition, for instance, is an important item in the term bill, while for the far more valuable...

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Education
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Men are not so much the keepers of herds as herds are the keepers of men.

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FarmingFreedomLivestock
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The universe constantly and obediently answers to our conceptions; whether we travel fast or slow, the track is laid for us. Let us spend our lives in conceiving then. The poet or the artist never...

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ArtArtistsIdeas
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It is by a mathematical point only that we are wise, as the sailor or fugitive slave keeps the polestar in his eye; but that is sufficient guidance for all our life. We may not...

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Inspirational-Life
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It is a very remarkable and significant fact that though no man is quite well or healthy yet every one believes practically that health is the rule & disease the exception.

—Henry David Thoreau

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Health
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Those who have not learned to read the ancient classics in the language in which they were written must have a very imperfect knowledge of the history of the human race; for it is remarkable...

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Classics
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A lady once offered me a mat, but as I had no room to spare within the house, nor time to spare within or without to shake it, I declined it, preferring to wipe my...

—Henry David Thoreau

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Simple-LifeSimple-LivingSimplicity
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It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.

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Inspirational
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I do believe in simplicity. It is astonishing as well as sad, how many trivial affairs even the wisest thinks he must attend to in a day; how singular an affair he thinks he must...

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SimplicityWisdom
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Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.

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Friendship
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Every sunset which I witness inspires me with the desire to go to a west as distant and as fair as that into which the Sun goes down. He appears to migrate westward daily and...

—Henry David Thoreau

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Nature
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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? Men generally, under such...

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AmericaGovernmentHumane
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Children, who play life, discern its true law and relations more clearly than men, who fail to live it worthily, but who think that they are wiser by experience, that is, by failure.

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Failure
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A man thinking or working will always be alone, let him be where he will.

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Solitude
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that he live in all respects so compactly and preparedly that, if an enemy take the town, he can, like the old philosopher, walk out the gate empty-handed without anxiety.

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AnxietySimplicity
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Some men fish all their lives without knowing it is not really the fish they are after.

—Henry David Thoreau

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Contentment
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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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ArtisticInspirationalMusic
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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...

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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...

—Henry David Thoreau

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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.

—Henry David Thoreau

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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...

—Henry David Thoreau

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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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