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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: "Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream-world into a..."
Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream-world into a reality. Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau quote: "Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who..."
Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it. Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau quote: "I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so..."
I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. Henry David Thoreau
It is not that we love to be alone, but that we love to soar, and when we do soar, the company grows thinner and thinner until there is none at all. …We are not the less to aim at the summits though the multitude does not ascend them. Henry David Thoreau
If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen. Henry David Thoreau
'I love even to see the domestic animals reassert their native rights? any evidence that they have not wholly lost their original wild habits and vigor; as when my neighbor's cow breaks out of her pasture early in the Spring and boldly swims the river, a cold grey tide, twenty-five or thirty rods wide, swollen by the melted snow. It is the Buffalo crossing the Mississippi. Henry David Thoreau
Every child begins the world again, to some extent, and loves to stay outdoors, even in wet and cold. It plays house, as well as horse, having an instinct for it...At last we know not what it is to live in the open air, and our lives are domestic in more senses than we think. Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau quote: "Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and..."
Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without. Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau quote: "Next to us is not the workman whom we have hired, with whom we..."
Next to us is not the workman whom we have hired, with whom we love so well to talk, but the workman whose work we are. Henry David Thoreau
For if the truth were known, Love cannot speak, But only thinks and does; Though surely out 'twill leak Without the help of Greek, Or any tongue. Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau quote: "Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth."
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau quote: "Love must be as much a light as it is a flame."
Love must be as much a light as it is a flame. Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau quote: "The purity men love is like the mists which envelop the earth,..."
The purity men love is like the mists which envelop the earth, and not likethe azure ether beyond. Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau quote: "Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can..."
Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence. Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau quote: "What avails it that another loves you, if he does not..."
What avails it that another loves you, if he does not understand you? Such love is a curse. Henry David Thoreau

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