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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: "Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it,..."
Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still. Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau quote: "May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love!"
May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love! Henry David Thoreau
Some are 'industrious' and appear to love labor for its own sake, or perhaps because it keeps them out of worse mischief; to such I have at present nothing to say. Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau quote: "If misery loves company, misery has company enough."
If misery loves company, misery has company enough. Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau quote: "Those whom we can love, we can hate; to others we are..."
Those whom we can love, we can hate; to others we are indifferent. Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau quote: "The only remedy for love is to love more."
The only remedy for love is to love more. Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau quote: "There is no remedy for love but to love more."
There is no remedy for love but to love more. Henry David Thoreau
On the death of a friend, we should consider that the fates through confidence have devolved on us the task of a double living, that we have henceforth to fulfill the promise of our friend's life also, in our own, to the world. Henry David Thoreau
I do believe in simplicity. It is astonishing as well as sad, how many trivial affairs even the wisest thinks he must attend to in a day; how singular an affair he thinks he must omit. When the mathematician would solve a difficult problem, he first frees the equation of all incumbrances, and reduces it to its simplest terms. So simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real. Probe the earth to see where your main roots run. Henry David Thoreau
Most of the luxuries, and many of the so called comforts of life, are not only indispensable, but positive hinderances to the elevation of mankind. With respect to luxuries and comforts, the wisest have ever lived a more simple and meagre life than the poor. Henry David Thoreau
There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself. Henry David Thoreau
A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars. Henry David Thoreau
Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Turn the old; return to them. Things do not change; we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do not want society. Henry David Thoreau
I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. . . . In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness." (From Walden) Henry David Thoreau
Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind. Henry David Thoreau

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