Century Quotes by Henry David Thoreau

11 Century quotes by Henry David Thoreau

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Henry David Thoreau’s eleven reflections on the century are thoughtful and succinct. He blends nature, society, and time into short musings that invite quiet contemplation.

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Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years.

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Let us not underrate the value of a fact; it will one day flower in a truth. It is astonishing how few…

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Men seem anxious to accomplish an orderly retreat through the centuries, earnestly rebuilding the works behind them, as they are battered down…

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It enhances our sense of the grand security and serenity of nature to observe the still undisturbed economy and content of the…

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I delight to come to my bearings,... not to live in this restless, nervous, bustling, trivial Nineteenth Century, but stand or sitthoughtfully…

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I fear that he who walks over these fields a century hence will not know the pleasure of knocking off wild apples.…

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If we live in the Nineteenth Century, why should we not enjoy the advantages which the Nineteenth Century offers? Why should our…

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If you look over a list of medicinal recipes in vogue in the last century, how foolish and useless they are seen…

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The era of wild apples will soon be over. I wander through old orchards of great extent, now all gone to decay,…

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Much is said about the progress of science in these centuries. I should say that the useful results of science had accumulated,…

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I should say that the useful results of science had accumulated, but that there had been no accumulation of knowledge, strictly speaking,…

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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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