Henry David Thoreau Quotes - Page 15

• It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

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  Beautiful, Art, Humorous

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.142

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• After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.

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  Literature, Firsts, Sin

  Henry David Thoreau (1942). “Civil Disobedience”, p.8, Hayes Barton Press

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• The wilderness is near as well as dear to every man. Even the oldest villages are indebted to the border of wild wood which surrounds them, more than to the gardens of men. There is something indescribably inspiriting and beautiful in the aspect of the forest skirting and occasionally jutting into the midst of new towns, which, like the sand-heaps of fresh fox-burrows, have sprung up in their midst. The very uprightness of the pines and maples asserts the ancient rectitude and vigor of nature. Our lives need the relief of such a background, where the pine flourishes and the jay still screams.

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  Beautiful, Nature, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.120, Xist Publishing

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• Let every one mind his own business, and endeavor to be what he was made.

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  Mind, Walden Pond, Made

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.331, Penguin

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• Poetry is the mysticism of mankind.

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  Poetry, Mankind, Mysticism

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Quotable Thoreau: An A to Z Glossary of Inspiring Quotations from Henry David Thoreau”, p.77, BookBaby

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• Every man looks at his wood-pile with a kind of affection.

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  Men, Looks, Woods

  Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.73, Heron Dance Press

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• Such is beauty ever,-neither here nor there, now nor then,-neither in Rome nor in Athens, but wherever there is a soul to admire.

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  Beauty, Rome, Soul

  Henry David Thoreau, Barry Andrews (2005). “True Harvest: Readings from Henry David Thoreau for Every Day of the Year”, p.32, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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• The most primitive places left with us are the swamps, where the spruce still grows shaggy with usnea.

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  Swamps, Wilderness, Primitive

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “The Maine Woods: The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume III (of 20)”, p.87, Trajectory Inc

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• Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.

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  Fashion, Teenage, Laughing

  1854 Walden, or Life in the Woods,'Economy'.

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• If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would ... [be] the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.

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  Men, Years, Liberty

  Henry David Thoreau (1942). “Civil Disobedience”, p.11, Hayes Barton Press

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• Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.

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  Good Life, Son, Fundraising

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• The biggest happiness is when at the end of the year you feel better than at the beginning

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  Feel Better, Years, Ends

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• To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning.

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  Good Morning, Thinking, Sun

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.61, Graphic Arts Books

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• The Friend asks no return but that his Friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.

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  Friendship, Dream, Apotheosis

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.192, Xist Publishing

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• ...how deep the ruts of tradition and conformity!

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  Ruts, Conformity, Tradition

  Henry David Thoreau (1999). “Uncommon Learning: Thoreau on Education”, p.27, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We must look a long time before we can see

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  Long, Looks, Observation

  Henry David Thoreau (1992). “The Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.163, Rowman & Littlefield

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• The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

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  Life, Running, Time

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.28, Graphic Arts Books

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• Be it life or death, we crave only reality.

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  Reality, Life Or Death, Crave

  Henry David Thoreau (1995). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods”, p.64, Courier Corporation

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• Let your capital be simplicity and contentment.

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  Simplicity, Contentment

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “Thoreau's Book of Quotations”, p.70, Courier Corporation

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• In the summer we lay up a stock of experiences for the winter, as the squirrel of nuts?something for conversation in winter evenings.

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  Summer, Winter, Squirrels

  Henry David Thoreau (2011). “The Journal of Henry David Thoreau, 1837-1861”, p.74, New York Review of Books

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• I do not see why the schoolmaster should be taxed to support the priest, and not the priest the schoolmaster.

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  Atheist, Support, Should

  Henry David Thoreau, Nancy L. Rosenblum (1996). “Thoreau: Political Writings”, p.13, Cambridge University Press

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• Whether he sleeps or wakes,--whether he runs or walks,--whether he uses a microscope or a telescope, or his naked eye,--a man never discovers anything, never overtakes anything, or leaves anything behind, but himself. Whatever he says or does, he merely reports himself. If he is in love, he loves; if he is in heaven, he enjoys; if he is in hell, he suffers. It is his condition that determines his locality.

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  Running, Sleep, Eye

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1871, Delphi Classics

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• Life consists with Wildness. The most alive is the wildest. Not yet subdued to man, its presence refreshes him. One who pressed forward incessantly and never rested from his labors, who grew fast and made infinite demands on life, would always find himself in a new country or wilderness, and surrounded by the raw material of life. He would be climbing over the prostrate stems of primitive forest trees.

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  Country, Men, Climbing

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walking: Top Essays”, p.11, 谷月社

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

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  Life And Love, Inspirational Life, Mean

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

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• A man will not need to study history to find out what is best for his own culture.

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  Men, History, Needs

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walden and Civil Disobedience”, p.148, Xist Publishing

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