Henry David Thoreau Quotes About Poverty

• As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Peace, Simple

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Quotable Thoreau: An A to Z Glossary of Inspiring Quotations from Henry David Thoreau”, p.88, BookBaby

• However mean your life is, meet it and live it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life And Love, Inspirational Life, Mean

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Walden”, p.232, Xist Publishing

• Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends... Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Simple, Clothes, Simplicity

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.212, Cosimo, Inc.

• I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. . . . In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Dream, Live Life

  Walden ch. 18 (1854)

• However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Courage, Mean

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Walden”, p.232, Xist Publishing

• Give me the poverty that enjoys true wealth.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Giving, Poverty, Wealth

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.121, Graphic Arts Books

• Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Turn the old; return to them. Things do not change; we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do not want society.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Garden, Clothes

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.212, Cosimo, Inc.

• None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call voluntary poverty.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wise, Poverty, Should

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Thoreau on Nature: Sage Words on Finding Harmony with the Natural World”, p.26, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

• 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

• Poverty ... It is life near the bone, where it is sweetest.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Poverty, Bones

  Henry David Thoreau (2004). “Walden”, p.346, Collector's Library

• You speak of poverty and dependence. Who are poor and dependent? Who are rich and independent? When was it that men agreed to respect the appearance and not the reality?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Truth, Independent, Reality

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.361, Penguin

• The fact is, mental philosophy is very like Poverty, which, you know, begins at home; and indeed, when it goes abroad, it is poverty itself.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Philosophy, Home, Psychology

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.25, Jazzybee Verlag

• Be not anxious to avoid poverty. In this way the wealth of the universe may be securely invested.

  Henry David Thoreau

  May, Way, Poverty

  Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1865). “Letters to Various Persons”, p.52

• Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Garden, Simplicity, Simple Life

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.212, Cosimo, Inc.

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