Blood Quotes by Henry David Thoreau

10 Blood quotes by Henry David Thoreau

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Thoreau’s reflections on Blood weave together the natural world and inner contemplation. These ten brief observations invite readers to consider life's pulse from a transcendental viewpoint.

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I was born upon thy bank, river, My blood flows in thy stream, And thou meanderest forever, At the bottom of my…

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We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bone.

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I could not help being struck with the foolishness of that institution which treated me as if I were mere flesh and…

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True kindness is a pure divine affinity, Not founded upon human consanguinity. It is a spirit, not a blood relation, Superior to…

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Give me a sentence which no intelligence can understand. There must be a kind of life and palpitation to it, and under…

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Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships, after a style purely his own,…

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We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones. Any nobleness begins at once…

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We love to see any redness in the vegetation of the temperate zone. It is the color of colors. This plant speaks…

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Cast your whole vote, not a strip of paper merely, but your whole influence. A minority is powerless while it conforms to…

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I love to see that Nature is so rife with life that myriads can be afforded to be sacrificed and suffered to…

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If ever I did a man any goodof course it was something exceptional and insignificant compared with the good or evil which I am…

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Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.

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“Men say they know many things; But lo! they have taken wings, — The arts and sciences, And a thousand appliances; The wind that…

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I am not afraid of praise, for I have practiced it on myself.

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“All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or back gammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and…

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“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…

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As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may…

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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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In proportion as our inward life fails, we go more constantly and desperately to the post office. You may depend on it, that the…

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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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The lumberers rarely trouble themselves to put out their fires, such is the dampness of the primitive forest; and this is one cause, no…

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“When he has obtained those things which are necessary to life, there is another alternative than to obtain the superfluities; and that is, to…

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Wealth is measured by the level of experience in all aspects of life

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