Henry David Thoreau quotes - page 4

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around. (Henry David Thoreau)
We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
On the death of a friend, we should consider that the fates through confidence have devolved on us the task of a double living, that we have henceforth to fulfill the promise of our friend's life also, in our own, to the world. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
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. (Henry David Thoreau)
The heart is forever inexperienced. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
Most men would feel insulted if it were proposed to employ them in throwing stones over a wall, and then in throwing them back, merely that they might earn their wages. But many are no more worthily employed now. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
The eye may see for the hand, but not for the mind. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call voluntary poverty. (Henry David Thoreau)
I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion. View quote
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Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance than I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
Men rush to California and Australia as if the true gold were to be found in that direction but that is to go to the very opposite extreme to where it lies. They go prospecting farther and farther away from the true lead, and are most unfortunate when they think themselves most successful. View quote
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