Henry David Thoreau Quotes About Generosity

• One is not born into the world to do everything but to do something.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Life, Generosity

• Nature, even when she is scant and thin outwardly, satisfies us still by the assurance of a certain generosity at the roots.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Roots, Generosity, Certain

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.124, Penguin

• Bread may not always nourish us; but it always does us good, it even takes stiffness out of our joints, and makes us supple and buoyant, when we knew not what ailed us, to recognize any generosity in man or Nature, to share any unmixed and heroic joy.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Generosity, Joy

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.243, Penguin

• With wisdom we shall learn liberality.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wisdom, Generosity, Liberality

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.211, Penguin

• Art can never match the luxury and superfluity of Nature. In the former all is seen; it cannot afford concealed wealth, and is niggardly in comparison; but Nature, even when she is scant and thin outwardly, satisfies us still by the assurance of a certain generosity at the roots.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Art, Nature, Roots

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.124, Penguin

• The heroic books, even if printed in the character of our mother tongue, will always be in a language dead to degenerate times; and we must laboriously seek the meaning of each word and line, conjecturing a larger sense than common use permits out of what wisdom and valor and generosity we have. The modern cheap and fertile press, with all its translations, has done little to bring us nearer to the heroic writers of antiquity. They seem as solitary, and the letter in which they are printed as rare and curious, as ever.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Mother, Book, Character

  Henry David Thoreau (1939). “Walden: or, Life in the woods”

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