Henry David Thoreau Quotes - Page 6

• My profession is to always find God in nature.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Profession, Nature Beauty

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• Behave so the aroma of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Atmosphere, May, Aroma

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Thoreau on Nature: Sage Words on Finding Harmony with the Natural World”, p.16, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• A bore is someone who takes away my solitude and doesn't give me companionship in return.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Giving, Solitude, Return

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• It is the marriage of the soul with nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination

  Henry David Thoreau

  Marriage, Nature, Creativity

  Henry David Thoreau (1999). “Material Faith: Thoreau on Science”, p.27, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I believe that there is a subtle magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Believe, Yield

  Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.59, Heron Dance Press

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• Go not to the object; let the object come to you.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Revelations, Objects

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• It is reasonable that a man should be something worthier at the end of the year than he was at the beginning.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Years, Ends

  Henry David Thoreau, Steve Grant (2005). “Daily Observations: Thoreau on the Days of the Year”, p.21, Univ of Massachusetts Press

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• Remember that the smallest seed of faith is of more worth than the largest fruit of happiness.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Happiness, Depression, Faith

  "Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau".

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• One is not born into the world to do everything but to do something.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Life, Generosity

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• Love must be as much a light as it is a flame.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Love, Romantic, Soulmate

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Thoreau on Nature: Sage Words on Finding Harmony with the Natural World”, p.42, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Happiness, Success, Hope

  Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.395, Yale University Press

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• Truths and roses have thorns about them.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Flower, Rose, Literature

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

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• A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. 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.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Friendship, Dream, Kind

  "Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles".

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

  Henry David Thoreau

  Respect, Self, Sobriety

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• 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

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• Wealth can't buy heath, but heath can buy wealth.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Fortune Cookie, Wealth

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• That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Freedom, Patriotic, Government

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• If the day and night are such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, more starry, more immortal - that is your success.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Sweet, Congratulations

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.132, Graphic Arts Books

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• You cannot hear music and noise at the same time.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Music, Noise

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.129, Courier Corporation

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• Renew thyself completely each day.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Each Day, Thyself

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.58, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Men have become the tools of their tools.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Witty, Work, Humorous

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

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• The press is, almost without exception, corrupt.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Journalism, Exception, Presses

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.308, Simon and Schuster

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• If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Science, Men

  "Life Without Principle" (1863)

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• Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Positive, Simple

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Love, Lonely, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (1995). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods”, p.88, Courier Corporation

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