Thought Quotes by Henry David Thoreau

13 Thought quotes by Henry David Thoreau

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Thoreau’s reflections often begin on a porch and end in the wilderness of the mind. These thirteen lines offer a concise glimpse of his reverence for simple, deliberate thinking.

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Keep up the fires of thought, and all will go well.

Henry David Thoreau

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“You conquer fate by thought.”

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Any sincere thought is irresistible.

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A little thought is sexton to all the world.

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My Friend is that one whom I can associate with my choicest thought.

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“How can we expect a harvest of thought who have not had a seed-time of character?”

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How can we expect a harvest of thought who have not had a seedtime of character?

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I never read a novel, they have so little real life and thought in them.

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As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in…

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It is not easy to make our lives respectable by any course of activity. We must repeatedly withdraw into our shells of…

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The more you have thought and written on a given theme, the more you can still write. Thought breeds thought. It grows…

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

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It is so rare to meet with a man outdoors who cherishes a worthy thought in his mind, which is independent of…

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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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