“When formerly I was looking about to see what I could do for a living... I thought often and seriously of picking… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Children, who play life, discern its true law and relations more clearly than men, who fail to live it worthily, but who… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The opportunities of living are diminished in proportion as what are called the "means" are increased. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The true harvest of my life is intangible - a little star dust caught, a portion of the rainbow I have clutched. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“In what concerns you much, do not think that you have companions: know that you are alone in the world. ” — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In my short experience of human life, the outward obstacles, if there were any such, have not been living men, but the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
How many a poor immortal soul I have met well-nigh crushed and smothered under its load, creeping down the road of life,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The only fruit which even much living yields seems to be often only some trivial success,--the ability to do some slight thing… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Most men, even in this comparatively free country, through mere ignorance and mistake, are so occupied with the factitious cares and superfluously… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Was awakened in the night to a strain of music dying away, - passing travellers singing. My being was so expanded and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
These men, in teaching us how to die, have at the same time taught us how to live. If this man's acts… — 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… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Is not disease the rule of existence? There is not a lily pad floating on the river but has been riddled by… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In short, I am convinced, both by faith and experience, that to maintain one's self on this earth is not a hardship… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
So thoroughly and sincerely are we compelled to live, reverencing our life, and denying the possibility of change. This is the only… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“If the day and the night are such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“We can never have enough of nature. We must be refreshed by the sight of inexhaustible vigor, vast and titanic features, the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“After the first blush of sin comes its indifference; and from immoral it becomes, as it were, unmoral, and not quite unnecessary… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
To be a philosopher... is to solve some of the problems of life, not only theoretically, but practically. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Why should we be startled by death? Life is a constant putting off of the mortal coil - coat, cuticle, flesh and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Our village life would stagnate if it were not for the unexplored forests and meadows which surround it. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There are two classes of men called poets. The one cultivates life, the other art,... one satisfies hunger, the other gratifies the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
To the virtuous man, the universe is the only sanctum sanctorum, and the penetralia of the temple are the broad noon of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call voluntary… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Indeed, the life of cattle, like that of many men, is but a sort of locomotiveness; they move a side at a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We should endeavor practically in our lives to correct all the defects which our imagination detects. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling and spending their lives like servants. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The poet is a man who lives at last by watching his moods. An old poet comes at last to watch his… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As far back as I can remember I have unconsciously referred to the experiences of a previous state of existence. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If we were always, indeed, getting our living, and regulating our lives according to the last and best mode we had learned,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If you see a man approaching you with the obvious intent of doing you good, you should run for your life. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When I think of the gold-diggers and the Mormons, the slaves and the slave-holders and the flibustiers, I naturally dream of a… — 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
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
“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
“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
“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
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
A traveler who looks at things with an impartial eye may see what the oldest inhabitant has not observed. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
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
I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
The still youthful energies of the globe have only to be directed in their proper channel. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
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
The lumberers rarely trouble themselves to put out their fires, such is the dampness of the primitive forest; and this is one cause, no… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
“When he has obtained those things which are necessary to life, there is another alternative than to obtain the superfluities; and that is, to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
Wealth is measured by the level of experience in all aspects of life — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
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