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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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Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snows in the fields and woods, if you would keep your spirits up. Deal with brute nature. Be cold and hungry and weary. Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau quote: "The tragedy in a man’s life is what dies inside of him while..."
The tragedy in a man’s life is what dies inside of him while he lives. Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau quote: "Here is life, an experiment to a great extent untried by me."
Here is life, an experiment to a great extent untried by me. Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau quote: "Here is life, an experiment to a great extent untried by me;..."
Here is life, an experiment to a great extent untried by me; but it does not avail me that they have tried it. Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau quote: "As to conforming outwardly and living your own life inwardly,..."
As to conforming outwardly and living your own life inwardly, I do not think much of that. Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau quote: "What is called genius is the abundance of life and health."
What is called genius is the abundance of life and health. Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau quote: "Life in us is like the water in a river."
Life in us is like the water in a river. Henry David Thoreau
The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run. Henry David Thoreau
That man who does not believe that each day contains an earlier, more sacred, and auroral hour than he has yet profaned, has despaired of life, and is pursuing a descending and darkening way. Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau quote: "I like sometimes to take rank hold on life and spend my day..."
I like sometimes to take rank hold on life and spend my day more as the animals do. Henry David Thoreau
There is on the earth no institution which Friendship has established; it is not taught by any religion; no scripture contains its maxims. It has no temple nor even a solitary column...However, out fates at least are social. Our courses do not diverge; but as the web of destiny is woven it is fulled, and we are cast more and more into the centre. Men naturally, though feebly, seek this alliance, and their actions faintly foretell it. We are inclined to lay the chief stress on likeness and not... Henry David Thoreau
The sail, the play of its pulse so like our own lives: so thin and yet so full of life, so noiseless when it labors hardest, so noisy and impatient when least effective. Henry David Thoreau
Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour. Henry David Thoreau
The millions are awake enough for physical labor; but only one in a million is awake enough for effective intellectual exertion, only one in a hundred millions to a poetic or divine life. To be awake is to be alive. Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau quote: "Wealth is the ability to fully experience life."
Wealth is the ability to fully experience life. Henry David Thoreau

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