Henry David Thoreau Quotes - Page 18

• I should say that the useful results of science had accumulated, but that there had been no accumulation of knowledge, strictly speaking, for posterity; for knowledge is to be acquired only by a corresponding experience. How can we know what we are told merely? Each man can interpret another's experience only by his own.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Knowledge, Science, Men

  "Journeys, Adventures & Life in Harmony with Nature".

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• A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind.

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  Games, Despair, Amusement

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.15

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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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  Funny, Humor, Effective Listening

  Henry David Thoreau, Nancy L. Rosenblum (1996). “Thoreau: Political Writings”, p.103, Cambridge University Press

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• I am alarmed when it happens that I have walked a mile into the woods bodily, without getting there in spirit. In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to Society. But it sometimes happens that I cannot easily shake off the village. The thought of some work will run in my head and I am not where my body is - I am out of my senses. In my walks I would fain return to my senses. What business have I in the woods, if I am thinking of something out of the woods?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Running, Morning, Thinking

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.395, Penguin

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• ...how deep the ruts of tradition and conformity!

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  Ruts, Conformity, Tradition

  Henry David Thoreau (1999). “Uncommon Learning: Thoreau on Education”, p.27, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, and obsequious attendance, but sincerity and truth were not; and I went away hungry from the inhospitable board.

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  Truth, Wine, Boards

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.214, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The true harvest of my life is intangible - a little star dust caught, a portion of the rainbow I have clutched.

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  Stars, Intangible Quality, Dust

  Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.33, Heron Dance Press

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• Measure your health by your sympathy with morning and spring. If there is no response in you to the awakening of nature -if the prospect of an early morning walk does not banish sleep, if the warble of the first bluebird does not thrill you -know that the morning and spring of your life are past. Thus may you feel your pulse.

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  Inspirational, Life, Sympathy

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• Statesmen and legislators, standing so completely within the institution, never distinctly and nakedly behold it. They speak of moving society, but they have no resting-place without it. They may be men of a certain experience and discrimination, and have no doubt invented ingenious and even useful systems, for which we sincerely thank them; but all their wit and usefulness lie within certain not very wide limits. They are wont to forget that the world is not governed by policy and expediency.

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  Lying, Moving, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.210, Graphic Arts Books

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• Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage.

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  Garden, Simplicity, Simple Life

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.212, Cosimo, Inc.

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• In my walks I would fain return to my senses.

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  Return, Walks, Walking

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Essays of Henry David Thoreau - Walking”, p.8, Editora Dracaena

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• In the summer we lay up a stock of experiences for the winter, as the squirrel of nuts?something for conversation in winter evenings.

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  Summer, Winter, Squirrels

  Henry David Thoreau (2011). “The Journal of Henry David Thoreau, 1837-1861”, p.74, New York Review of Books

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• Some simple dishes recommend themselves to our imaginations as well as palates.

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  Simple, Imagination, Simplicity

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.179, Courier Corporation

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• When my legs begin to move, the thoughts begin to flow.

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  Moving, Legs, Flow

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• As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

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  Time, Memories, Transcendentalism

  'Walden' (1854) 'Economy'

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• People die of fright and live of confidence.

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  Fear, People, Fright

  Henry David Thoreau (1962). “The journal of Henry D. Thoreau”

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• If Nature is our mother, then God is our father.

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  God, Mother, Nature

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.265, Xist Publishing

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• Surely joy is the condition of life.

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  Joy, Conditions

  Henry David Thoreau, Abigail Rorer, Bradley Dean (2010). “Of Woodland Pools Spring-Holes and Ditches: Excerpts from the Journal of Henry David Thoreau”, p.7, Counterpoint Press

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• Christianity only hopes. It has hung its harp on the willows, and cannot sing a song in a strange land. It has dreamed a sad dream, and does not yet welcome the morning with joy. The mother tells her falsehoods to her child, but, thank heaven, the child does not grow up in its parent's shadow. Our mother's faith has not grown with her experience. Her experience has been too much for her. The lesson of life was too hard for her to learn.

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  Mother, Dream, Song

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.71, Delphi Classics

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• The most alive is the wildest.

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  Alive, Wildness

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walking: Top Essays”, p.11, 谷月社

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• It is difficult to begin without borrowing, but perhaps it is the most generous course thus to permit your fellowmen to have an interest in your enterprise.

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  Money, Permit, Difficult

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.33, Graphic Arts Books

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• I believe that water is the only drink for a wise man: wine is not so noble a liquor; and think of dashing the hopes of a morningwith a cup of warm coffee, or of an evening with a dish of tea! Ah, how low I fall when I am tempted by them! Even music may be intoxicating. Such apparently slight causes destroyed Greece and Rome, and will destroy England and America.

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  Music, Wise, Drinking

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walden”, p.183, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Tradition is a more interrupted and feebler memory.

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  Memories, Tradition, Interrupted

  Henry David Thoreau (1873). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.309

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

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  Hell, Curious, Feels

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.312, Simon and Schuster

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• What can be expressed in words can be expressed in life.

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  Silence

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.357, Penguin

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