Henry David Thoreau quotes - page 14

It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature. (Henry David Thoreau)
I am grateful for what I have. My thanksgiving is perpetual. View quote
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Read not the Times, read the Eternities. View quote
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What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party. View quote
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I believe that the mind can be permanently profaned by the habit of attending to trivial things, so that all our thoughts shall be tinged with triviality. View quote
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Books are to be distinguished by the grandeur of their topics even more than by the manner in which they are treated. View quote
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Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years. View quote
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I have a room all to myself; it is nature. View quote
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Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb nail. View quote
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If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated? View quote
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Being is the great explainer. (Henry David Thoreau)
'Tis healthy to be sick sometimes. View quote
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A man can suffocate on courtesy. View quote
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We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches. View quote
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It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive. View quote
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Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing. View quote
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Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling. View quote
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Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape! View quote
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God reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to us. View quote
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Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another? View quote
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There is always a present and extant life, be it better or worse, which all combine to uphold. (Henry David Thoreau)
Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars. View quote
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Begin where you are and such as you are, without aiming mainly to become of more worth, and with kindness aforethought, go about doing good. View quote
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Most men, even in this comparatively free country, through mere ignorance and mistake, are so occupied with the factitious cares and superfluously coarse labors of life that its finer fruits cannot be plucked by them. View quote
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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 the less to aim at the summits though the multitude does not ascend them. View quote
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