Results Quotes by Henry David Thoreau

16 Results quotes by Henry David Thoreau

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Thoreau’s 16 musings on results tie achievement to the rhythms of the natural world, urging a measured, thoughtful approach. The page feels like a walk in the woods, where each quote is a stepping stone toward mindful evaluation.

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A man's whole life is taxed for the least thing well done. It is its net result.

Henry David Thoreau

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Every sentence is the result of a long probation.

Henry David Thoreau

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The poet uses the results of science and philosophy, and generalizes their widest deductions.

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If we knew all the laws of Nature, we should need only fact, or the description of one actual phenomenon, to infer…

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But labor of the hands, even when pursued to the verge of drudgery, is perhaps never the worst form of idleness. It…

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When we want culture more than potatoes, and illumination more than sugar-plums, then the great resources of a world are taxed anddrawn…

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Friendship is the unspeakable joy and blessing that result to two or more individuals who from constitution sympathize. Such natures are liable…

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If it is the result of a pure love, there can be nothing sensual in marriage. Chastity is something positive, not negative.…

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A true politeness does not result from any hasty and artificial polishing, it is true, but grows naturally in characters of the…

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Much is said about the progress of science in these centuries. I should say that the useful results of science had accumulated,…

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A common and natural result of an undue respect for law is, that you may see a file of soldiers, colonel, captain,…

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In the wildest nature, there is not only the material of the most cultivated life, and a sort of anticipation of the…

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Whether we live by the seaside, or by the lakes and rivers, or on the prarie, it concerns us to attend to…

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Yet poetry, though the last and finest result, is a natural fruit. As naturally as the oak bears an acorn, and the…

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Friendship takes place between those who have an affinity for one another, and is a perfectly natural and inevitable result. No professions…

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I should say that the useful results of science had accumulated, but that there had been no accumulation of knowledge, strictly speaking,…

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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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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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