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The flowers of the apple are perhaps the most beautiful of any tree’s, so copious and so delicious to both sight and scent. (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
It is necessary not to be Christian to appreciate the beauty and significance of the life of Christ. (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
Of a life of luxury the fruit is luxury, whether in agriculture, or commerce, or literature, or art. (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
The kind uncles and aunts of the race are more esteemed than its true spiritual fathers and mothers. (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
The effect of a good government is to make life more valuable; of a bad one, to make it less valuable. (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
The life which men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others? (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
All men are really most attracted by the beauty of plain speech, and they even write in a florid style in imitation of this. Theyprefer to be misunderstood rather than to come short of its exuberance. (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
Where the most beautiful wild flowers grow, there mans spirit is fed and poets grow (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
It’s the beauty within us that makes it possible for us to recognize the beauty around us. The question is not what you look at but what you see. (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
Being a teacher is like being in jail; once it’s on your record, you can never get rid of it (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
When the true criminals are running around free, the only honorable place for a decent human being is in prisons. (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
One may be drunk with love without being any nearer to finding his mate (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
Economy is a subject which admits of being treated with levity, but it cannot so be disposed of (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
In the planting of the seeds of most trees, the best gardeners do no more than follow Nature, though they may not know it. (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would ... [be] the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible. (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
The virtue of making two blades of grass grow where only one grew before does not begin to be superhuman. (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
If to chaffer and higgle are bad in trade, they are much worse in Love. It demands directness as of an arrow. (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
Do not worry if you have built your castles in the air. They are where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
The sport of digging the bait is nearly equal to that of catching the fish, when one’s appetite is not too keen. (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
Under the one word house are included the schoolhouse, the almshouse, the jail, the tavern, the dwellinghouse; and the meanest shed or cave in which men live contains elements of all these. But nowhere on the earth stands the entire and perfect house. (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
The wisest man preaches no doctrines; he has no scheme; he sees no rafter, not even a cobweb, against the heavens. It is clear sky. (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
Philosophy, having crept clinging to the rocks so far, puts out its feelers many ways in vain (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
What lies before us and what lies behind us are small matters compared to what lies within us (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
A man’s interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town. (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
Life isn’t about finding yourself; it’s about creating yourself. So live the life you imagined. (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
If the day and night are such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, more starry, more immortal - that is your success. (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
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. (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you’ve imagined. (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)