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Henry David Thoreau Quotes

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American Author, Writer July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862

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The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poor-house. The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the alms-house as brightly as from the rich man's abode; the snow melts before its door as early in the spring. I do not see but a quiet mind may live as contentedly there, and have as cheering thoughts, as in a palace. Henry David Thoreau
What other words, we may almost ask, are memorable and worthy to be repeated than those which love has inspired? It is wonderful that they were ever uttered. They are few and rare indeed, but, like a strain of music, they are incessantly repeated and modulated by memory. All other words crumble off with the stucco which overlies the heart. We should not dare to repeat these now aloud. We are not competent to hear them at all times. Henry David Thoreau
If the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government, let it go, let it go: perchance it will wear smooth--certainly the machine will wear ou? but if it is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then I say, break the law. Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the machine. What I have to do is to see, at any rate, that I do not lend myself to the wrong which I condemn. Henry David Thoreau
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler. Henry David Thoreau
My life more civil is and free. Than any civil polity. Ye princes, keep your realms. And circumscribed power. Not wide as are my dreams. Nor rich as is this hour Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau quote: "Live your life, do your work, then take your hat."
Live your life, do your work, then take your hat. Henry David Thoreau
However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise. Henry David Thoreau
As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness. Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau quote: "As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be..."
As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler. Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau quote: "Don't be afraid that your life will end, be afraid that it..."
Don't be afraid that your life will end, be afraid that it will never begin! Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau quote: "Don't get to the end of your life and realize you have never..."
Don't get to the end of your life and realize you have never lived. Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau quote: "However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it..."
However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau quote: "However mean your life is, meet it and live it."
However mean your life is, meet it and live it. Henry David Thoreau
Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Turn the old; return to them. Things do not change; we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do not want society. Henry David Thoreau
A truly good book…teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down and commence living on its hint. When I read an indifferent book, it seems the best thing I can do, but the inspiring volume hardly leaves me leisure to finish its latter pages. It is slipping out of my fingers while I read…What I began by reading I must finish by acting. Henry David Thoreau

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