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Henry David Thoreau Quotes

Henry David Thoreau quotes

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

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I have heard of a man lost in the woods and dying of famine and exhaustion at the foot of a tree, whose loneliness was relieved by the grotesque visions with which, owing to bodily weakness, his diseased imagination surrounded him, and which he believed to be real. So also, owing to bodily and mental health and strength, we may be continually cheered by a like but more normal and natural society, and come to know that we are never alone. Henry David Thoreau
It costs me nothing for curtains, for I have no gazers to shut out but the sun and moon, and I am willing that they should look in...and if he [the sun] is sometimes too warm a friend, I find it still better economy to retreat behind some curtain which nature has provided. Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau quote: "All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends..."
All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning. Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau quote: "There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is..."
There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone. Henry David Thoreau
To anticipate, not the sunrise and the dawn merely, but, if possible, Nature herself! How many mornings, summer and winter, before yet any neighbor was stirring about his business, have I been about mine...So many autumn, ay, and winter days, spent outside the town, trying to hear what was in the wind, to hear and carry it express! I well-nigh sunk all my capital in it, and lost my own breath into the bargain, running in the face of it. Henry David Thoreau
I am a happy camper so I guess I’m doing something right. Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder. Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau quote: "The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of..."
The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness. Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau quote: "I silently smiled at my incessant good fortune."
I silently smiled at my incessant good fortune. Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau quote: "Be true to your work, your word, and your friend."
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend. Henry David Thoreau
A Friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. Henry David Thoreau
A lake is a landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature. Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau quote: "Man is the artificer of his own happiness."
Man is the artificer of his own happiness. Henry David Thoreau
The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait until that other is ready, and it may be a long time before they get off. Henry David Thoreau
The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in a single, solitary, even humble individual. For it is within the soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost. Henry David Thoreau
The indescribable innocence and beneficence of Nature-of sun and wind and rain, of summer and winter-such health, such cheer, they afford forever! and such sympathy have they ever with our race, that all Nature would be affected, and the sun’s brightness fade, and the winds would sigh humanely, and the clouds rain tears, and the woods shed their leaves and put on mourning in midsummer, if anyone should ever for a just cause grieve. Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not... Henry David Thoreau

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