Henry David Thoreau Quotes About Respect

• Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Love, Respect, Appreciate

  Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.27, Heron Dance Press

• . . . we should be men first, and subjects afterward.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Respect, Men, Firsts

  Civil Disobedience (1849)

• It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Motivational, Respect, Law

  Civil Disobedience (1849)

• Sobriety, severity, and self-respect are the foundations of all true sociality.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Respect, Self, Sobriety

• Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect, and that will be one step toward obtaining it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Respect, Men, Steps

  Henry David Thoreau (1942). “Civil Disobedience”, p.3, Hayes Barton Press

• When was it that men agreed to respect the appearance and not the reality?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Respect, Reality, Men

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

• If one hesitates in his path, let him not proceed. Let him respect his doubts, for doubts, too, may have some divinity in them.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Confidence, Respect, Doubt

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.359, Penguin

• We live thick and are in each other's way, and stumble over one another, and I think we thus lose some respect for one another.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Respect, Thinking, Way

  Henry David Thoreau (2008). “Walden, Civil Disobedience, and Other Writings: Authoritative Texts, Journal, Reviews and Posthumous Assessments, Criticism”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated

• The deeds of love are less questionable than any action of an individual can be, for, it being founded on the rarest mutual respect, the parties incessantly stimulate each other to a loftier and purer life, and the act in which they are associated must be pure and noble indeed, for innocence and purity can have no equal. In this relation we deal with one whom we respect more religiously even than we respect our better selves, and we shall necessarily conduct as in the presence of God. What presence can be more awful to the lover than the presence of his beloved?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Respect, Sex, Party

  Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.65, Yale University Press

• If we live in the Nineteenth Century, why should we not enjoy the advantages which the Nineteenth Century offers? Why should our life be in any respect provincial?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Respect, Progress, Culture

  Henry David Thoreau (1995). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods”, p.71, Courier Corporation

• I think that the farmer displaces the Indian even because he redeems the meadow, and so makes himself stronger and in some respects more natural.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Respect, Native American, Thinking

  Henry David Thoreau (2010). “Wild Apples and Other Natural History Essays”, p.79, University of Georgia Press

• I do not wish, it happens, to be associated with Massachusetts, either in holding slaves or in conquering Mexico. I am a little better than herself in these respects.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Respect, Wish, Mexico

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.92, Xist Publishing

• Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Respect, Learning, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.516, Simon and Schuster

• It is worth the while to live respectably unto ourselves. We can possibly get along with a neighbor, even with a bedfellow, whom we respect but very little; but as soon as it comes to this, that we do not respect ourselves, then we do not get along at all, no matter how much money we are paid for halting.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Respect, Littles, Matter

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1768, Delphi Classics

• There is none who does not lie hourly in the respect he pays to false appearance.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Respect, Truth, Lying

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

• The gold-digger is the enemy of the honest laborer, whatever checks and compensations there may be. It is not enough to tell me that you worked hard to get your gold. So does the Devil work hard. The way of transgressors may be hard in many respects.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Respect, Hard Work, Enemy

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.413, Simon and Schuster

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