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Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
God reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to us (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through, and you could go in the back way (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
Is the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more venerable than the oldest man (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
Where there is an observatory and a telescope, we expect that any eyes will see new worlds at once (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
I am struck by the fact that the more slowly trees grow at first, the sounder they are at the core, and I think that the same is true of human beings (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
Such a man has some right to fish, and I love to see nature carried out in him (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
We should never stand upon ceremony with sincerity. We should never cheat and insult and banish one another by our meanness, if there were present the kernel of worth and friendliness. We should not meet thus in haste (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
It is not in vain that man speaks to man. This is the value of literature (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
There is none who does not lie hourly in the respect he pays to false appearance (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
Always the laws of light are the same, but the modes and degrees of seeing vary (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
If you indulge in long periods, you must be sure to have a snapper at the end (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
Every man has to learn the points of the compass again as often as he awakes, whether from sleep or any abstraction (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
It makes no odds where a man goes or stays, if he is only about his business (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
To enjoy a thing exclusively is commonly to exclude yourself from the true enjoyment of it (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
A man sees only what concerns him... How much more, then, it requires different intentions of the eye and of the mind to attend to different departments of knowledge! How differently the poet and the naturalist look at objects! (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
It is a surprising and memorable, as well as valuable experience, to be lost in the woods any time (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
Far travel, very far travel, or travail, comes near to the worth of staying at home (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
Roads are made for horses and men of business. I do not travel in them much (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
To the virtuous man, the universe is the only sanctum sanctorum, and the penetralia of the temple are the broad noon of his existence (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
He who eats the fruit should at least plant the seed; ay, if possible, a better seed than that whose fruit he has enjoyed (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)