Henry David Thoreau Quotes About Aids

• We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Optimistic, Heartache

  Henry David Thoreau (1995). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods”, p.59, Courier Corporation

• Be sure that you give the poor the aid they most need. If you give money, spend yourself with it, and do not merely abandon it to them. Often the poor man is not cold and hungry as he is dirty and ragged and gross. It is partly his taste, and not merely his misfortune.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Dirty, Men, Giving

  Henry David Thoreau (2000). “Walden and Other Writings: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.78, Modern Library

• The poet is he who can write some pure mythology today without the aid of posterity.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Writing, Poetry, Today

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.59, Delphi Classics

• 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 million to a poetic or divine life. To be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake. How could I have looked him in the face? We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aids, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn, which does not forsake us in our soundest sleep. I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Sleep, Men, Expectations

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.142

• The scholar is not apt to make his most familiar experience come gracefully to the aid of his expression.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Expression, Experience, Aids

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “A Week On The Concord And Merrimack Rivers (Annotated Edition)”, p.90, Jazzybee Verlag

• Furniture! Thank God, I can sit and I can stand without the aid of a furniture warehouse.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Simplicity, Thank God, Furniture

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.48, Graphic Arts Books

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