Henry David Thoreau Quotes About Moderation

• Let a man take time enough for the most trivial deed, though it be but the paring of his nails. The buds swell imperceptibly, without hurry or confusion,--as if the short spring days were an eternity.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Spring, Men, Confusion

  Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.12, Yale University Press

• Concord River is remarkable for the gentleness of its current, which is scarcely perceptible, and some have referred to its influence the proverbial moderation of the inhabitants of Concord, as exhibited in the Revolution, and on later occasions.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Peace, Rivers, Revolution

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.8, Xist Publishing

• The golden mean in ethics, as in physics, is the centre of the system and that about which all revolve, and though to a distant and plodding planet it be an uttermost extreme, yet one day, when that planet's year is completed, it will be found to be central.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Mean, Years, One Day

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.930, Delphi Classics

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