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Henry David Thoreau Quotes

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It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?  (Henry David Thoreau Quotes) Cultivate the habit of early rising. It is unwise to keep the head long on a level with the feet  (Henry David Thoreau Quotes) In what concerns you much, do not think that you have companions: know that you are alone in the world  (Henry David Thoreau Quotes) It is as hard to see one’s self as to look backwards without turning around  (Henry David Thoreau Quotes) Most are engaged in business the greater part of their lives, because the soul abhors a vacuum and they have not discovered any continuous employment for man’s nobler faculties  (Henry David Thoreau Quotes) We must have infinite faith in each other. If we have not, we must never let it leak out that we have not  (Henry David Thoreau Quotes) When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality  (Henry David Thoreau Quotes) The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly  (Henry David Thoreau Quotes) The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible and indescribable as the tints of morning or evening  (Henry David Thoreau Quotes) We now no longer camp as for a night, but have settled down on earth and forgotten heaven  (Henry David Thoreau Quotes) A kitten is so flexible that she is almost double; the hind parts are equivalent to another kitten with which the forepart plays. She does not discover that her tail belongs to her until you tread on it  (Henry David Thoreau Quotes) Gardening is civil and social, but it wants the vigor and freedom of the forest and the outlaw  (Henry David Thoreau Quotes) I do not value any view of the universe into which man and the institutions of man enter very largely and absorb much of the attention. Man is but the place where I stand, and the prospect hence is infinite  (Henry David Thoreau Quotes) Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it  (Henry David Thoreau Quotes) Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb nail  (Henry David Thoreau Quotes) Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short  (Henry David Thoreau Quotes) I have lived some thirty years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors  (Henry David Thoreau Quotes) Why level downward to our dullest perception always, and praise that as common sense? The commonest sense is the sense of men asleep, which they express by snoring  (Henry David Thoreau Quotes) What men call social virtues, good fellowship, is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter, which lie close together to keep each other warm  (Henry David Thoreau Quotes) The bad are frequently good enough to let you see how bad they are, but the good as frequently endeavor to get between you and themselves  (Henry David Thoreau Quotes) Those undeserved joys which come uncalled and make us more pleased than grateful are they that sing  (Henry David Thoreau Quotes) At a certain season of our life we are accustomed to consider every spot as the possible site of a house  (Henry David Thoreau Quotes) Do not seek so anxiously to be developed, to subject yourself to many influences to be played on; it is all dissipation. Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights  (Henry David Thoreau Quotes) I do not judge men by anything they can do. Their greatest deed is the impression they make on me  (Henry David Thoreau Quotes) Children, who play life, discern its true law and relations more clearly than men, who fail to live it worthily, but who think that they are wiser by experience, that is, by failure  (Henry David Thoreau Quotes) One man lies in his words, and gets a bad reputation; another in his manners, and enjoys a good one  (Henry David Thoreau Quotes) We seem but to linger in manhood to tell the dreams of our childhood, and they vanish out of memory ere we learn the language  (Henry David Thoreau Quotes) How few things can a man measure with the tape of his understanding ; How many greater things might he be seeing in the meanwhile  (Henry David Thoreau Quotes) It is the marriage of the soul with nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination  (Henry David Thoreau Quotes) Nature refuses to sympathize with our sorrow. She seems not to have provided for, but by a thousand contrivances against it  (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
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