Inspire Quotes by Henry David Thoreau

11 Inspire quotes by Henry David Thoreau

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Thoreau’s keen eye for the ordinary makes even a brief selection feel like a fresh breeze. These eleven lines distill his habit of spotting wonder in the everyday, giving you a quick reminder to look closer.

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We inspire friendship in men when we have contracted friendship with the gods.

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Every sunset I witness inspires me with the desire to go to West as distant and as fair as that which the…

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What means the fact--which is so common, so universal--that some soul that has lost all hope for itself can inspire in another…

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It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves. There is none such. It is the bog in our…

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The generative energy, which, when we are loose, dissipates and makes us unclean, when we are continent invigorates and inspires us. Chastity…

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When it was proposed to me to go abroad, rub oft some rust, and better my condition in a worldly sense, I…

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What is called eloquence in the forum is commonly found to be rhetoric in the study. The orator yields to the inspiration…

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You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island…

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No man with a genius for legislation has appeared in America. They are rare in the history of the world. There are…

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Every sunset which I witness inspires me with the desire to go to a west as distant and as fair as that…

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Even the death of Friends will inspire us as much as their lives. They will leave consolation to the mourners, as the…

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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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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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