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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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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
Henry David Thoreau quote: "As long as I have the friendship of the sesasons life will..."
As long as I have the friendship of the sesasons life will never be a burden to me. Henry David Thoreau
I love Nature partly because she is not man, but a retreat from him. None of his institutions control or pervade her. There a different kind of right prevails. In her midst I can be glad with an entire gladness. If this world were all man, I could not stretch myself, I should lose all hope. He is constraint, she is freedom to me. He makes me wish for another world. She makes me content with this. Henry David Thoreau
I delight to come to my bearings,—not walk in procession with pomp and parade, in a conspicuous place, but to walk even with the Builder of the universe, if I may,—not to live in this restless, nervous, bustling, trivial Nineteenth Century, but stand or sit thoughtfully while it goes by. What are men celebrating? They are all on a committee of arrangements, and hourly expect a speech from somebody. God is only the president of the day, and Webster is his orator. I love to weigh, to settle, to... Henry David Thoreau
In the love of narrow souls I make many short voyages but in vain–I find no sea room—but in great souls I sail before the wind without a watch, and never reach the shore. Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau quote: "Kindness to children, love for children, goodness to..."
Kindness to children, love for children, goodness to children-- these are the only investments that never fail. Henry David Thoreau
It has come to this, that the lover of art is one, and the lover of nature another, though true art is but the expression of our love of nature. Henry David Thoreau
Whether he sleeps or wakes, whether he runs or walks, whether he uses a microscope or a telescope, or his naked eye, a man never discovers anything, never overtakes anything or leaves anything behind, but himself. Whatever he says or does he merely reports himself. If he is in love, he loves; if he is in heaven, he enjoys, if he is in hell, he suffers. It is his condition that determines his locality. Henry David Thoreau

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