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Henry David Thoreau Quotes

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One cannot too soon forget his errors and misdemeanors. To dwell long upon them is to add to the offense  (Henry David Thoreau Quotes) 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  (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) All endeavor calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil. The fight to the finish spirit is the one... characteristic we must posses if we are to face the future as finishers  (Henry David Thoreau Quotes) Books are to be distinguished by the grandeur of their topics even more than by the manner in which they are treated  (Henry David Thoreau Quotes) Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside  (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) Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?  (Henry David Thoreau Quotes) I am sorry to think that you do not get a man’s most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness  (Henry David Thoreau Quotes) How many things there are concerning which we might well deliberate whether we had better know them  (Henry David Thoreau Quotes) How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?  (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) I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes  (Henry David Thoreau Quotes) I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark  (Henry David Thoreau Quotes) I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion  (Henry David Thoreau Quotes) If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things  (Henry David Thoreau Quotes) If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself  (Henry David Thoreau Quotes) Is the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more venerable than the oldest man  (Henry David Thoreau Quotes) In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood  (Henry David Thoreau Quotes) It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise  (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) No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well  (Henry David Thoreau Quotes) Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have left an indelible impression, and we are ever and anon reminded of them  (Henry David Thoreau Quotes) Some are reputed sick and some are not. It often happens that the sicker man is the nurse to the sounder  (Henry David Thoreau Quotes) The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer  (Henry David Thoreau Quotes) The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument  (Henry David Thoreau Quotes) The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run  (Henry David Thoreau Quotes) The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready  (Henry David Thoreau Quotes) There is always a present and extant life, be it better or worse, which all combine to uphold  (Henry David Thoreau Quotes) There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone  (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
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