Henry David Thoreau Quotes About Offense

• One cannot too soon forget his errors and misdemeanors. To dwell long upon them is to add to the offense.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Mistake, Errors, Long

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.2114, Delphi Classics

• One cannot too soon forget his errors and misdemeanors for to dwell long upon them is to add to the offense, and repentance and sorrow can only be displaced by somewhat better, and which is as free and original as if they had not been.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Errors, Long, Sorrow

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.2114, Delphi Classics

• Comparatively, we can excuse any offense against the heart, but not against the imagination. The imagination knows--nothing escapes its glance from out its eyry--and it controls the breast.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Heart, Imagination, Excuse

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.159, Jazzybee Verlag

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