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Henry David Thoreau Quotes

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Events, circumstances, etc., have their origin in ourselves. They spring from seeds which we have sown  (Henry David Thoreau Quotes) Perfect sincerity and transparency make a great part of beauty, as in dewdrops, lakes, and diamonds  (Henry David Thoreau Quotes) The botanist should make interest with the bees if he would know when the flowers open and when they close  (Henry David Thoreau Quotes) All sound heard at the greatest possible distance produces one and the same effect, a vibration of the universal lyre, just as the intervening atmosphere makes a distant ridge of earth interesting to our eyes by the azure tint it imparts to it  (Henry David Thoreau Quotes) 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 Quotes) Nature is doing her best each moment to make us well. Why, nature is but another name for health  (Henry David Thoreau Quotes) I am resolved that I will not through humility become the devil’s attorney. I will endeavor to speak a good word for the truth  (Henry David Thoreau Quotes) I am won’t to think that men are not so much the keepers of herds as herds are the keepers of men. The former are so much the freer  (Henry David Thoreau Quotes) When any real progress is made, we unlearned and learn anew what we thought we knew before  (Henry David Thoreau Quotes) To have made even one person’s life a little better, that is to succeed  (Henry David Thoreau Quotes) The biggest happiness is when at the end of the year you feel better than at the beginning  (Henry David Thoreau Quotes) Those who, while they disapprove of the character and measures of a government, yield to it their allegiance and support are undoubtedly its most conscientious supporters, and so frequently the most serious obstacles to reform  (Henry David Thoreau Quotes) No doubt another may also think for me; but it is not therefore desirable that he should do so to the exclusion of my thinking for myself  (Henry David Thoreau Quotes) One piece of good sense would be more memorable than a monument as high as the moon  (Henry David Thoreau Quotes) The foul slime stands for the sloth and vice of man, the decay of humanity; the fragrant flower that springs from it, for the purity and courage which are immortal  (Henry David Thoreau Quotes) If I were confined to a corner of a garret all my days, like a spider, the world would be just as large to me while I had my thoughts about me  (Henry David Thoreau Quotes) There is not so good an understanding between any two, but the exposure by the one of a serious fault in the other will produce a misunderstanding in proportion to its heinousness  (Henry David Thoreau Quotes) There are continents and seas in the moral world, to which every man is an isthmus or inlet, yet unexplored by him  (Henry David Thoreau Quotes) Some do not walk at all; others walk in the highways; a few walk across lots  (Henry David Thoreau Quotes) The stars are the jewels of the night, and perchance surpass anything which day has to show  (Henry David Thoreau Quotes) I desire that there be as many different persons in the world as possible; I would have each one be very careful to find out and preserve his own way  (Henry David Thoreau Quotes) If you see a man approaching you with the obvious intent of doing you good, you should run for your life  (Henry David Thoreau Quotes) We do not associate the idea of antiquity with the ocean, nor wonder how it looked a thousand years ago, as we do of the land, for it was equally wild and unfathomable always  (Henry David Thoreau Quotes) I am a citizen of the world first, and of this country at a later and more convenient hour  (Henry David Thoreau Quotes) A book should contain pure discoveries, glimpses of terra firma, though by shipwrecked mariners, and not the art of navigation by those who have never been out of sight of land  (Henry David Thoreau Quotes) After all, I believe it is the style of thought entirely, and the style of expression, which makes the difference in books  (Henry David Thoreau Quotes) If men were to be destroyed and the books they have written were to be transmitted to a new race of creatures, in a new world, what kind of record would be found in them of so remarkable a phenomenon as the rainbow?  (Henry David Thoreau Quotes) There is always room and occasion enough for a true book on any subject; as there is room for more light the brightest day and more rays will not interfere with the first  (Henry David Thoreau Quotes) The chief want, in every state that I have been into, was a high and earnest purpose in its inhabitants  (Henry David Thoreau Quotes) What is wanted is men of principle, who recognize a higher law than the decision of the majority. The marines and the militia whose bodies were used lately were not men of sense nor of principle; in a high moral sense they were not men at all  (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
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