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Henry David Thoreau Quotes

Henry David Thoreau quotes about life

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

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If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours. Henry David Thoreau
If the day and night are such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, more starry, more immortal - that is your success. Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau quote: "Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of..."
Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself. Henry David Thoreau
Men come tamely home at night only from the next field or street, where their household echoes haunt, and their life pines because it breathes its own breath over again; their shadows, morning and evening, reach farther than their daily steps. We should come home from far, from adventures, and perils and discoveries every day, with new experience and character. Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau quote: "Death is beautiful when seen to be a law, and not an accident...."
Death is beautiful when seen to be a law, and not an accident. It is as common as life. Henry David Thoreau
I can alter my life by altering my attitude. He who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers. Henry David Thoreau
The life which men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others? Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau quote: "Every blade in the field - Every leaf in the forest - lays..."
Every blade in the field - Every leaf in the forest - lays down its life in its season as beautifully as it was taken up. Henry David Thoreau
Perhaps the facts most astounding and most real are never communicated by man to man. The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible and indescribable as the tints of morning or evening. It is a little star-dust caught, a segment of the rainbow which I have clutched. Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau quote: "Let go of the past and go for the future. Go confidently in..."
Let go of the past and go for the future. Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you imagined. Henry David Thoreau
Spending of the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy questionable liberty during the least valuable part of it, reminds me of the Englishman who went to India to make a fortune first, in order that he might return to England and live the life of a poet. He should have gone up garret at once. Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau quote: "We live a short period of time in this world, but we live it..."
We live a short period of time in this world, but we live it according to the laws of eternal life. Henry David Thoreau
Talk of mysteries!? Think of our life in nature,? daily to be shown matter, to come in contact with it,? rocks, trees, wind on our cheeks! The solid earth! The actual world! The common sense! Contact! Contact! Who are we? Where are we? Henry David Thoreau
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business. Henry David Thoreau
We can never have enough of nature. We must be refreshed by the sight of inexhaustible vigor, vast and titanic features, the sea-cost with its wrecks, the wilderness with its living and its decaying trees, the thunder-cloud, and the rain which lasts three weeks and produces freshets. We need to witness our own limits transgressed, and some life pasturing freely where we never wander. Henry David Thoreau

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