I am accustomed to think very long of going anywhere,--am slow to move. I hope to hear a response of the oracle… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
So our human life but dies down to its root, and still puts forth its green blade to eternity. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
O how I laugh when I think of my vague indefinite riches. No run on my bank can drain it, for my… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The monster is never just there where we think he is. What is truly monstrous is our cowardice and sloth. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Having each some shingles of thought well dried, we sat and whittled them. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We seem to think that the earth must go through the ordeal of sheep-pasturage before it is habitable by man. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
What a fool he must be who thinks that his El Dorado is anywhere but where he lives. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I think it would be worth the while to introduce a school of children to such [an oak grove], that they may… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Most think that they are above being supported by the town; but it oftener happens that they are not above supporting themselves… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The state does not demand justice of its members, but thinks that it succeeds very well with the least degree of it,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resigns his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Most men appear never to have considered what a house is, and are actually though needlessly poor all their lives because they… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The coward wants resolution, which the brave man can do without. He recognizes no faith above a creed, thinking this straw by… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I suppose you think that persons who are as old as your father and myself are always thinking about very grave things,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I perceive that we inhabitants of New England live this mean life that we do because our vision does not penetrate the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As for fowling, during the last years that I carried a gun my excuse was that I was studying ornithology, and sought… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The true and not despairing Friend will address his Friend in some such terms as these. "I never asked thy leave to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I believe that water is the only drink for a wise man: wine is not so noble a liquor; and think of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“A man’s ignorance sometimes is not only useful, but beautiful, while his knowledge, so called, is oftentimes worse than useless beside being… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Christ was a sublime actor on the stage of the world. He knew what he was thinking of when he said, "Heaven… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I think that I love society as much as most, and am ready enough to fasten myself like a bloodsucker for the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Literary gentlemen, editors, and critics think that they know how to write, because they have studied grammar and rhetoric; but they are… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Nature has many scenes to exhibit, and constantly draws a curtain over this part or that. She is constantly repainting the landscape… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I think that no experience which I have today comes up to, or is comparable with, the experiences of my boyhood. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Only what is thought, said, or done at a certain rare coincidence is good. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In the mythus a superhuman intelligence uses the unconscious thoughts and dreams of men as its hieroglyphics to address men unborn. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I hardly know an intellectual man, even, who is so broad and truly liberal that you can think aloud in his society. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I think that Nature meant kindly when she made our brothers few. However, my voice is still for peace. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“A man thinking or working will always be alone, let him be where he will.” — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As to conforming outwardly and living your own life inwardly, I do not think much of that. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I think the fall from the farmer to the operative as great and memorable as that from the man to the farmer. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I think that we may safely trust a good deal more than we do. We may waive just so much care of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“In what concerns you much, do not think that you have companions: know that you are alone in the world. ” — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
That is mere sentimentality that lies abed by day and thinks itself white, far from the tan and callus of experience. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I want nothing new, if I can have but a tithe of the old secured to me. I will spurn all wealth… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We should treat our minds, that is, ourselves, as innocent and ingenuous children, whose guardians we are, and be careful what objects… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is a relief to read some true book, wherein all are equally dead,--equally alive. I think the best parts of Shakespeare… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I am struck by the fact that the more slowly trees grow at first, the sounder they are at the core, and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If ever I did a man any goodof course it was something exceptional and insignificant compared with the good or evil which I am… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
“Men say they know many things; But lo! they have taken wings, — The arts and sciences, And a thousand appliances; The wind that… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
“All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or back gammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
“This spending of the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
A traveler who looks at things with an impartial eye may see what the oldest inhabitant has not observed. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
In proportion as our inward life fails, we go more constantly and desperately to the post office. You may depend on it, that the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
The still youthful energies of the globe have only to be directed in their proper channel. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
Concord's little arch does not span all our fate, nor is what transpires under it law for the universe. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
The lumberers rarely trouble themselves to put out their fires, such is the dampness of the primitive forest; and this is one cause, no… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
“When he has obtained those things which are necessary to life, there is another alternative than to obtain the superfluities; and that is, to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
Wealth is measured by the level of experience in all aspects of life — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
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