I can Quotes by Henry David Thoreau

21 I can quotes by Henry David Thoreau

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Henry David Thoreau’s reflections often celebrate the power of the individual in nature and society. This set of twenty‑one statements highlights his conviction that we can shape our own lives.

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My Friend is that one whom I can associate with my choicest thought.

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Furniture! Thank God, I can sit and I can stand without the aid of a furniture warehouse.

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I feel as if my life had grown more outward when I can express it.

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As far back as I can remember I have unconsciously referred to the experiences of a previous state of existence.

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I do not wish to kill nor to be killed, but I can foresee circumstances in which these things would be by…

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Since you are my readers, and I have not been much of a traveler, I will not talk about people a thousand…

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From my experience with wild apples, I can understand that there may be reason for a savage's preferring many kinds of food…

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I want nothing new, if I can have but a tithe of the old secured to me. I will spurn all wealth…

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I quietly declare war with the State, after my fashion, though I will still make use and get advantage of her as…

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Great God, I ask thee for no meaner pelf Than that I may not disappoint myself, That in my action I may…

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I have not yet learned to live, that I can see, and I fear that I shall not very soon. I find,…

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An island always pleases my imagination, even the smallest, as a small continent and integral portion of the globe. I have a…

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No: until I want the protection of Massachusetts to be extended to me in some distant Southern port, where my liberty is…

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They will tell you tough stories of sharks all over the Cape, which I do not presume to doubt utterly,--how they will…

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You must not count much upon what I can do or learn in New York… Everything there disappoints me but the crowd;…

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It is for no particular item in the tax-bill that I refuse to pay it. I simply wish to refuse allegiance to…

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My vicinity affords many good walks; and though for so many years I have walked almost every day, and sometimes for several…

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There is a certain class of unbelievers who sometimes ask me such questions as, if I think that I can live on…

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In short, all good things are wild and free. There is something in a strain of music, whether produced by an instrument…

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A truly good book attracts very little favor to itself. It is so true that it teaches me better than to read…

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I keep a mountain anchored off eastward a little way, which I ascend in my dreams both awake and asleep. Its broad…

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

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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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