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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: "Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day."
Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day. Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau quote: "We should impart our courage and not our despair."
We should impart our courage and not our despair. Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau quote: "Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!"
Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! Henry David Thoreau
When formerly I was looking about to see what I could do for a living... I thought often and seriously of picking huckleberries; that surely I could do. Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau quote: "Some men fish all their lives without knowing it is not really..."
Some men fish all their lives without knowing it is not really the fish they are after. Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau quote: "Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it..."
Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau quote: "Many men fish all their lives and never know what they are..."
Many men fish all their lives and never know what they are fishing for. paraphrased Thoreau Henry David Thoreau
Why level downward to our dullest perception always, and praise that as common sense? The commonest sense is the sense of men asleep, which they express by snoring. Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau quote: "It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather..."
It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive. Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau quote: "They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines..."
They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar. Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau quote: "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of feeble minds"
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of feeble minds Henry David Thoreau
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end. Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau quote: "Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within..."
Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought. Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau quote: "If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I..."
If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself. Henry David Thoreau
Every day or two I strolled to the village to hear some of the gossip which is incessantly going on there, circulating either from mouth to mouth, or from newspaper to newspaper, and which, taken in homeopathic doses, was really as refreshing in its way as the rustle of leaves and the peeping of frogs. Henry David Thoreau

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