Morning Quotes by Henry David Thoreau

Morning brings back the heroic ages.

— Henry David Thoreau

In a pleasant spring morning all men's sins are forgiven.

— Henry David Thoreau

The sun is but a morning star.

— Henry David Thoreau

Men are as innocent as the morning to the unsuspicious.

— Henry David Thoreau

An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.

— Henry David Thoreau

Morning is when I am awake and there is a dawn in me.

— Henry David Thoreau

“Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.”

— Henry David Thoreau

The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible and indescribable as the tints of morning or evening.

— Henry David Thoreau

I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls.

— Henry David Thoreau

Morning glory is the best name, it always refreshes me to see it.

— Henry David Thoreau

I have a great deal of company in my house; especially in the morning, when nobody calls.

— Henry David Thoreau

There must be some nerve and heroism in our love, as of a winter morning.

— Henry David Thoreau

Morning work! By the blushes of Aurora and the music of Memnon, what should be man's morning work in this world?

— Henry David Thoreau

In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.

— Henry David Thoreau

But the impressions which the morning makes vanish with its dews, and not even the most "persevering mortal" can preserve the memory…

— Henry David Thoreau

To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning. It matters not what…

— Henry David Thoreau

The birds I heard today, which, fortunately, did not come within the scope of my science, sang as freshly as if it…

— Henry David Thoreau

I love a broad margin to my life. Sometimes, in a summer morning, having taken my accustomed bath, I sat in my…

— Henry David Thoreau

By my intimacy with nature I find myself withdrawn from man. My interest in the sun and the moon, in the morning…

— Henry David Thoreau

“The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible and indescribable as the tints of morning or evening. It is…

— Henry David Thoreau

“They say that characters were engraven on the bathtub of king Tching-thang to this effect: 'renew thyself completely each day; do it…

— Henry David Thoreau

In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagavad-Gita, in comparison with which our modern…

— Henry David Thoreau

The morning, which is the most memorable season of the day, is the awakening hour. Then there is least somnolence in us;…

— Henry David Thoreau

The inhabitants of earth behold commonly but the dark and shadowy under side of heaven's pavement; it is only when seen at…

— Henry David Thoreau

“The Vedas say, "All intelligences awake with the morning." Poetry and art, and the fairest and most memorable of the actions of…

— Henry David Thoreau

To anticipate, not the sunrise and the dawn merely, but, if possible, Nature herself! How many mornings, summer and winter, before yet…

— Henry David Thoreau

I believe that what so saddens the reformer is not his sympathy with his fellows in distress, but, though he be the…

— Henry David Thoreau

A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rare. For the most part we miss the hue and fragrance of the…

— Henry David Thoreau

Who knows what beautiful and winged life, whose egg has been buried for ages under many concretic layers of woodenness in the…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Morning is when I am awake and there is a dawn in me. Moral reform is the effort to throw off sleep.…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Sometimes, in a summer morning, having taken my accustomed bath, I sat in my sunny doorway from sunrise till noon, rapt in…

— Henry David Thoreau

The phenomena of the year take place every day in a pond on a small scale. Every morning, generally speaking, the shallow…

— Henry David Thoreau

But it is rather derogatory that your dwelling-place should be only a neighborhood to a great city,--to live on an inclined plane.I…

— Henry David Thoreau

There were times when I could not afford to sacrifice the bloom of the present moment to any work, whether of head…

— Henry David Thoreau

I am alarmed when it happens that I have walked a mile into the woods bodily, without getting there in spirit. In…

— Henry David Thoreau

On tops of mountains, as everywhere to hopeful souls, it is always morning.

— Henry David Thoreau

Some would find fault with the morning, if they ever got up early enough.. The fault find faults even in Paradise.

— Henry David Thoreau

All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.

— Henry David Thoreau

The morning wind forever blows, the poem of creation is uninterrupted; but few are the ears to hear it.

— Henry David Thoreau

To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning.

— Henry David Thoreau