Together Quotes by Henry David Thoreau

20 Together quotes by Henry David Thoreau

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Thoreau’s 20 reflections on togetherness draw from his love of nature and belief in purposeful living. His words invite you to consider how simple, intentional connections can enrich both the individual and the collective.

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

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The artist and his work are not to be separated. The most willfully foolish man cannot stand aloof from his folly, but…

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I do not know but thoughts written down thus in a journal might be printed in the same form with greater advantage…

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The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth,…

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At death our friends and relatives either draw nearer to us and are found out, or depart farther from us and are…

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What men call social virtues, good fellowship, is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter, which lie close together to…

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We falsely attribute to men a determined character - putting together all their yesterdays - and averaging them - we presume we…

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I would remind my countrymen, that they are to be men first, and Americans only at a late and convenient hour. No…

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Alas! this is the crying sin of the age, this want of faith in the prevalence of a man. Nothing can be…

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Priests and physicians should never look one another in the face. They have no common ground, nor is there any to mediate…

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My friend is one who takes me for what I am. A stranger takes me for something else than what I am.…

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My vicinity affords many good walks; and though for so many years I have walked almost every day, and sometimes for several…

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We waded so gently and reverently, or we pulled together so smoothly, that the fishes of thought were not scared from the…

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That excitement about Kossuth, consider how characteristic, but superficial, it was!--only another kind of politics or dancing. Men were making speeches to…

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The cheapest way to travel, and the way to travel the farthest in the shortest distance, is to go afoot, carrying a…

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Men should not labor foolishly like brutes, but the brain and the body should always, or as much as possible, work and…

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It would be worthy of the age to print together the collected Scriptures or Sacred Writings of the several nations, the Chinese,…

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The village is the place to which the roads tend, a sort of expansion of the highway, as a lake of a…

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As we lay huddled together under the tent, which leaked considerably about the sides, with our baggage at our feet, we listened…

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I, who cannot stay in my chamber for a single day without acquiring some rust,... confess that I am astonished at the…

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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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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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