Streets Quotes by Henry David Thoreau

14 Streets quotes by Henry David Thoreau

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Thoreau’s fourteen reflections on streets bring his naturalist eye to the built environment. Though brief, the set highlights his ability to find philosophical depth in everyday pathways.

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When I would go a-visiting, I find that I go off the fashionable street,--not being inclined to change my dress,--to where man…

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I have heard of many going astray even in the village streets, when the darkness was so thick you could cut it…

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If we respected only what is inevitable and has a right to be, music and poetry would resound along the streets.

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It is worth the expense of youthful days and costly hours, if you learn only some words of an ancient language, which…

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When we come down into the distant village, visible from the mountain-top, the nobler inhabitants with whom we peopled it have departed,…

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I don't like the city better, the more I see it, but worse. I am ashamed of my eyes that behold it.…

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It is a very true and expressive phrase, "He looked daggers at me," for the first pattern and prototype of all daggers…

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The fate of the country does not depend on how you vote at the polls - the worst man is as strong…

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When I go into a museum and see the mummies wrapped in their linen bandages, I see that the lives of men…

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You must not count much upon what I can do or learn in New York… Everything there disappoints me but the crowd;…

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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…

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Think of admitting the details of a single case of the criminal court into our thoughts, to stalk profanely through their very…

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It is best to lay our plans widely in youth, for then land is cheap, and it is but too easy to…

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To preserve wild animals implies generally the creation of a forest for them to dwell in or resort to. So it is…

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If ever I did a man any goodof course it was something exceptional and insignificant compared with the good or evil which I am…

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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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“All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or back gammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and…

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“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…

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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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The lumberers rarely trouble themselves to put out their fires, such is the dampness of the primitive forest; and this is one cause, no…

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“When he has obtained those things which are necessary to life, there is another alternative than to obtain the superfluities; and that is, to…

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Wealth is measured by the level of experience in all aspects of life

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