Listen to music religiously, as if it were the last strain you might hear. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In a world of peace and love, music would be the universal language. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Music never stops; it is only the listening that is intermittent. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Keep pace with the drummer you hear, however measured or far away.” — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The music of all creatures has to do with their loves, even of toads and frogs. Is it not the same with… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Unpremeditated music is the true gauge which measures the current of our thoughts; the very undertow of our life's stream. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As polishing expresses the vein in marble, and grain in wood, so music brings out what of heroic lurks anywhere. The hero… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Music does bring people together. It allows us to experience the same emotions. People everywhere are the same in heart and spirit. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The silence sings. It is musical. I remember a night when it was audible. I heard the unspeakable. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If you will not try, you will go to your grave with your song still inside you. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There was something refreshingly and wildly musical to my ears in the very name of the white man's canoe, reminding me of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When we are in health, all sounds fife and drum for us; we hear the notes of music in the air, or… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Music is the sound of the universal laws promulgated. It is the only assured tone. There are in it such strains as… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
All sound heard at the greatest possible distance produces one and the same effect, a vibration of the universal lyre, just as… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I live in the angle of a leaden wall, into whose composition was poured a little alloy of bell-metal. Often, in the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Christianity only hopes. It has hung its harp on the willows, and cannot sing a song in a strange land. It has… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“What is there in music that it should so stir our deeps? We are all ordinarily in a state of desperation; such… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In Homer and Chaucer there is more of the innocence and serenity of youth than in the more modern and moral poets.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace… — 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
