Easy Quotes by Henry David Thoreau

13 Easy quotes by Henry David Thoreau

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Thoreau’s musings on ease are spare but resonant, echoing his love of nature and self‑reliance. In these few passages, he nudges us to consider the quiet power of uncomplicated living.

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While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created…

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Certainly, we do not need to be soothed and entertained always like children. He who resorts to the easy novel, because he…

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It is not enough that our life is an easy one. We must live on the stretch, retiring to our rest like…

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There is considerable danger that a man will be crazy between dinner and supper; but it will not directly answer any good…

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So easy is it, though many housekeepers doubt it, to establish new and better customs in the place of the old.

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It is not easy to make our lives respectable by any course of activity. We must repeatedly withdraw into our shells of…

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I grow savager and savager every day, as if fed on raw meat, and my tameness is only the repose of untamableness.…

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In society, in the best institutions of men, it is easy to detect a certain precocity. When we should still be growing…

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It is but too easy to establish another durable and harmonious routine. Immediately all parts of nature consent to it. Only make…

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The boatmen appeared to lead an easy and contented life, and we thought that we should prefer their employment ourselves to many…

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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…

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Any man will go considerably out of his way to pick up a silver dollar; but here are golden words, which the…

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It is best to lay our plans widely in youth, for then land is cheap, and it is but too easy 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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