“The stars are God's dreams, thoughts remembered in the silence of his night.” — henry david thoreau Copy Share Image
It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves. There is none such. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
This life we live is a strange dream, and I don't believe at all any account men give of it. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I am awaked almost every night by the panting of the locomotive. It interrupts my dreams. There is no sabbath. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In dreams we see ourselves naked and acting out our real characters, even more clearly than we see others awake. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined... — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I was born upon thy bank, river, My blood flows in thy stream, And thou meanderest forever, At the bottom of my… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The future is too soon the past. So make perseverance your excellence and go confidently in the direction of your dreams. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I do not know how to distinguish between waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the life that we… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I never dreamed of any enormity greater than I have committed. I never knew, and never shall know, a worse man than… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We seem but to linger in manhood to tell the dreams of our childhood, and they vanish out of memory ere we… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost. There is where they should be. Now put… — 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
Beside some philosophers of larger vision, Carlyle stands like an honest, half-despairing boy, grasping at some details only of their world systems. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There have been heroes for whom this world seemed expressly prepared, as if creation had at last succeeded; whose daily life was… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
This world is a place of business. What an infinite bustle! I am awaked almost every night by the panting of the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“It is no dream of mine, To ornament a line; I cannot come nearer to God and Heaven Than I live to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves. There is none such. It is the bog in our… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
What do the botanists know? Our lives should go between the lichen and the bark. The eye may see for the hand,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Each reaching and aspiration is an instinct with which all nature consists and cöoperates, and therefore it is not in vain. But… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Each new year is a surprise to us. We find that we had virtually forgotten the note of each bird, and when… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“In dreams we see ourselves naked and acting out our real characters, even more clearly than we see others awake. But an… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I keep a mountain anchored off eastward a little way, which I ascend in my dreams both awake and asleep. Its broad… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“This world is a place of business. What an infinite bustle! I am awaked almost every night by the panting of the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
My actual life is a fact, in view of which I have no occasion to congratulate myself; but for my faith and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavors to live the life which one has imagined, one will… — 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
I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The poet will write for his peers alone. He will remember only that he saw truth and beauty from his position, 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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
A traveler who looks at things with an impartial eye may see what the oldest inhabitant has not observed. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
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 Image
I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The still youthful energies of the globe have only to be directed in their proper channel. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
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 Image
