Henry David Thoreau Quotes - Page 6

• Talk about slavery! It is not the peculiar institution of the South. It exists wherever men are bought and sold, wherever a man allows himself to be made a mere thing or a tool, and surrenders his inalienable rights of reason and conscience. Indeed, this slavery is more complete than that which enslaves the body alone.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Rights, Judging

  "Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau".

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• It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Funny, Wisdom, Truth

  A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849)

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• If you will not try, you will go to your grave with your song still inside you.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Song, Trying, Graves

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• Where the most beautiful wild flowers grow, there mans spirit is fed and poets grow.

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  Beautiful, Flower, Spirit

  Henry David Thoreau (1991). “A Yearning Toward Wildness: Environmental Quotations from the Writings of Henry David Thoreau”, Peachtree Pub Limited

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• Things do not change; we change.

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  Inspirational, Life, Change

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

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• Do not despair of your life. You have force enough to overcome your obstacles.

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  Life, Despair, Overcoming

  Henry David Thoreau (1894). “Winter”

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• There is no beginning too small.

  Henry David Thoreau

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• The question is not what you look at – but how you look & whether you see.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Looks

  "A Year in Thoreau's Journal: 1851".

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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 omit. When the mathematician would solve a difficult problem, he first frees the equation of all incumbrances, and reduces it to its simplest terms. So simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real. Probe the earth to see where your main roots run.

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  Running, Real, Believe

  Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.201, Yale University Press

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• I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms.

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  Life, Cutting, Wish

  Walden ch. 2 (1854)

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• A bore is someone who takes away my solitude and doesn't give me companionship in return.

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  Giving, Solitude, Return

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• I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.

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  Lonely, Halloween, Fall

  Henry David Thoreau, Laura Ross (2009). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods: Bold-faced Ideas for Living a Truly Transcendent Life”, p.50, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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• All things in this world must be seen with youthful, hopeful eyes.

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  Hope, Children, Eye

  Henry David Thoreau, John C. Broderick, Robert Sattelmeyer (1981). “Journal”, p.93, Princeton University Press

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• Behave so the aroma of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere.

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  Atmosphere, May, Aroma

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Thoreau on Nature: Sage Words on Finding Harmony with the Natural World”, p.16, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Good for the body is the work of the body, good for the soul the work of the soul, and good for either the work of the other.

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  Work, Inspiration, Soul And Body

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.18, Courier Corporation

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• Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Money, Wealth And Happiness

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• Sweep away the clutter of things that complicate our lives.

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  Life, Action, Clutter

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Thoreau on Nature: Sage Words on Finding Harmony with the Natural World”, p.26, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• 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.

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  Love, Life, Trust

  Henry David Thoreau (1995). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods”, p.9, Courier Corporation

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• Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.

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  Life, Positive, Simple

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• Wealth can't buy heath, but heath can buy wealth.

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  Fortune Cookie, Wealth

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• To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.

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  Money, Done, Idle

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• I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals.

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  Animal, Destiny, Race

  1854 Walden, or Life in the Woods,'Higher Laws'.

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• We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake.

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  Awake

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.142

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• It is reasonable that a man should be something worthier at the end of the year than he was at the beginning.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Years, Ends

  Henry David Thoreau, Steve Grant (2005). “Daily Observations: Thoreau on the Days of the Year”, p.21, Univ of Massachusetts Press

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• All men recognize the right of revolution; that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Revolution, Unendurable

  Henry David Thoreau (1942). “Civil Disobedience”, p.5, Hayes Barton Press

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