Henry David Thoreau Quotes - Page 3

• All good things are wild and free.

  Henry David Thoreau

  I Hate You, Independence, Liberty

  Henry David Thoreau (2010). “Wild Apples and Other Natural History Essays”, p.82, University of Georgia Press

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• The secret of achievement is to hold a picture of a successful outcome in mind.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Success, Achievement

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• We can never have enough of nature. We must be refreshed by the sight of inexhaustible vigor, vast and titanic features, the sea-coast with its wrecks, the wilderness with its living and its decaying trees, the thunder-cloud, and the rain.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Rain, Clouds, Sight

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.205, Cosimo, Inc.

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• If you see a man approaching you with the obvious intent of doing you good, you should run for your life.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Running, Men, Doing You

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• Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Motivational, Dream

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• Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Success, Witty, Perseverance

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• City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Cities, People

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• What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Love, Inspiring, Peace

  Henry David Thoreau, Joseph O. Valentine, Thoreau Society (2001). “Thoreau on Land: Nature's Canvas”, p.79, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Talk about slavery! It is not the peculiar institution of the South. It exists wherever men are bought and sold, wherever a man allows himself to be made a mere thing or a tool, and surrenders his inalienable rights of reason and conscience. Indeed, this slavery is more complete than that which enslaves the body alone.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Rights, Judging

  "Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau".

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• You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this, or the like of this. I wish to live ever as to derive my satisfactions and inspirations from the commonest events, everyday phenomena, so that what my senses hourly perceive, my daily walk, the conversation of my neighbors, may inspire me, and I may dream of no heaven but that which lies about me.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Dream, Lying, Inspiration

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• Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snows in the fields and woods, if you would keep your spirits up. Deal with brute nature. Be cold and hungry and weary.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Long Walks, Weather

  Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.70, Heron Dance Press

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• The meeting of two eternities, the past and future....is precisely the present moment.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Past, Two, Live In The Moment

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• In an unjust society the only place for a just man is prison.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Unjust Society, Politics

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• I do believe in simplicity. It is astonishing as well as sad, how many trivial affairs even the wisest thinks he must attend to in a day; how singular an affair he thinks he must omit. When the mathematician would solve a difficult problem, he first frees the equation of all incumbrances, and reduces it to its simplest terms. So simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real. Probe the earth to see where your main roots run.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Running, Real, Believe

  Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.201, Yale University Press

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• Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Greatness, Law Of Attraction, Goal

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• Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Love, Inspirational, Money

  Henry David Thoreau, Barry Andrews (2005). “True Harvest: Readings from Henry David Thoreau for Every Day of the Year”, p.125, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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• There will never be a really free and enlightened state until the state comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Independent, Politics, Enlightened

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.211, Graphic Arts Books

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• That government is best which governs least.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Freedom, Democracies Have, Government

  Civil Disobedience (1849) See Ralph Waldo Emerson 29; O'Sullivan 1; Shipley 1

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• When any real progress is made, we unlearned and learn anew what we thought we knew before.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Real, Progress, Made

  Henry David Thoreau (1999). “Uncommon Learning: Thoreau on Education”, p.41, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Time is like a handful of sand - the tighter you grasp it, the faster it runs through your fingers.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Running, Sand, Faster

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• Anyone in a free society where the laws are unjust has an obligation to break the law.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Courage, Law, Liberty

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• When we bring what is within out into the world, miracles happen.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Miracle, World, Happens

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• Since most of us spend our lives doing ordinary tasks, the most important thing is to carry them out extraordinarily well.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Greatness, Important, Ordinary

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• 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

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• To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Money, Done, Idle

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