Henry David Thoreau quotes - page 11

To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle. (Henry David Thoreau)
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 and trust. View quote
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A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener. So our prospects brighten on the influx of better thoughts. We should be blessed if we lived in the present always, and took advantage of every accident that befell us. View quote
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A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting. View quote
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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. View quote
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Love must be as much a light as it is a flame. View quote
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The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness. View quote
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Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought. View quote
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It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know. View quote
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I have, as it were, my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself. View quote
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We are born as innocents. We are polluted by advice. (Henry David Thoreau)
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. View quote
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The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth. View quote
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It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always. View quote
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Every people have gods to suit their circumstances. View quote
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Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations. View quote
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There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature. View quote
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Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends... Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. View quote
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There is one consolation in being sick; and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before. View quote
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To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. View quote
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If a man believes and expects great things of himself, it makes no odds where you put him, or what you show him . . he will be surrounded by grandeur. (Henry David Thoreau)
We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see. View quote
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There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living. View quote
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Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something. View quote
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We are more anxious to speak than to be heard. View quote
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