All things Quotes by Henry David Thoreau

11 All things quotes by Henry David Thoreau

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Thoreau’s musings weave humanity with the wild. In this set he offers eleven thoughtful observations that tie the simple to the profound across all things.

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Since all things are good, men fail at last to distinguish which is the bane and which the antidote.

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All things in this world must be seen with youthful, hopeful eyes.

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The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument.

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I have found all things thus far, persons and inanimate matter, elements and seasons, strangely adapted to my resources.

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Nearest to all things is that power which fashions their being. Next to us the grandest laws are constantly being executed. Next…

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By a conscious effort of the mind we can stand aloof from actions and their consequences; and all things, good and bad,…

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The change from storm and winter to serene and mild weather, from dark and sluggish hours to bright and elastic ones, is…

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Not secondary to the sun, she gives us his blaze again, Void of its flame, and sheds a softer day... In Heaven…

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A cold and searching wind drives away all contagion, and nothing can withstand it but what has a virtue in it, and…

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Nature doth thus kindly heal every wound. By the mediation of a thousand little mosses and fungi, the most unsightly objects become…

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Why should Canada, wild and unsettled as it is, impress us as an older country than the States, unless because her institutions…

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A traveler who looks at things with an impartial eye may see what the oldest inhabitant has not observed.

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I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.

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The still youthful energies of the globe have only to be directed in their proper channel.

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Concord's little arch does not span all our fate, nor is what transpires under it law for the universe.

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