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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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When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality. Henry David Thoreau
There is an incessant influx of novelty into the world, and yet we tolerate incredible dulness. I need only suggest what kind of sermons are still listened to in the most enlightened countries. There are such words as joy and sorrow, but they are only the burden of a psalm, sung with a nasal twang, while we believe in the ordinary and mean. Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau quote: "Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something."
Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something. Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau quote: "Be not simply good - be good for something."
Be not simply good - be good for something. Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau quote: "Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something."
Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something. Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau quote: "Goodness is the only investment that never fails."
Goodness is the only investment that never fails. Henry David Thoreau
I see young men, my townsmen, whose misfortune it is to have inherited farms, houses, barns, cattle, and farming tools; for these are more easily acquired than got rid of. Better if they had been born in the open pasture and suckled by a wolf, that they might have seen with clearer eyes what field they were called to labor in. Who made them serfs of the soil? Why should they eat their sixty acres, when man is condemned to eat only his peck of dirt? Why should they begin digging their graves... Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau quote: "As if there were safety in stupidity alone."
As if there were safety in stupidity alone. Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau quote: "Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do,..."
Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live. Henry David Thoreau
But men labor under a mistake. The better part of the man is soon ploughed into the soil for compost. By a seeming fate, commonly called necessity, they are employed, as it says in an old book, laying up treasures which moth and rust will corrupt and thieves break through and steal. Henry David Thoreau
Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it. Henry David Thoreau
Nations are possessed with an insane ambition to perpetuate the memory of themselves by the amount of hammered stone they leave. Henry David Thoreau
A man who has at length found something to do will not need to get a new suit to do it in. If there is not a new man, how can the new clothes be made to fit? All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be. Perhaps we should never procure a new suit until we have so conducted that we feel like new men in the old. Henry David Thoreau
Perhaps we should never procure a new suit, however ragged or dirty the old, until we have so conducted or enterprised or sailed in some way, that we feel like new men in the old, and that to retain it would be like keeping new wine in old bottles. Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau quote: "He is blessed who is assured that the animal is dying out in..."
He is blessed who is assured that the animal is dying out in him every day by day, and the divine being established. Henry David Thoreau

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