Turns Quotes by Henry David Thoreau

18 Turns quotes by Henry David Thoreau

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Thoreau’s musings on “turns” capture the quiet moments when a simple change in direction reshapes our inner landscape, inviting you to pause and consider the subtle power of transition.

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Maturity is when all of your mirrors turn into windows.

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Truth never turns to rebuke falsehood; her own straightforwardness is the severest correction.

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The great art of life is how to turn the surplus life of the soul into life for the body.

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Don't spend your time in drilling soldiers, who may turn out hirelings after all, but give to undrilled peasantry a country to…

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As every season seems best to us in its turn, so the coming in of spring is like the creation of Cosmos…

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Bankruptcy and repudiation are the springboards from which much of our civilization vaults and turns its somersets, but the savagestands on the…

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You only need sit still long enough in some attractive spot in the woods that all its inhabitants may exhibit themselves to…

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No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof. What everybody echoes or in silence passes by as…

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When the leaves fall, the whole earth is a cemetery pleasant to walk in. I love to wander and muse over them…

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Wherever a man separates from the multitude, and goes his own way in this mood, there indeed is a fork in the…

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Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Turn…

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Whose are the truly labored sentences? From the weak and flimsy periods of the politician and literary man, we are glad to…

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The book exists for us perchance which will explain our miracles and and reveal new ones. The at present unutterable things we…

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It is rare that we use our thinking faculty as resolutely as an irishman his spade. To please our friends and relatives…

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Nature confounds her summer distinctions at this season. The heavens seem to be nearer the earth. The elements are less reserved and…

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I have seen some who did not know when to turn aside their eyes in meeting yours. A truly confident and magnanimous…

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When the leaves fall, the whole earth is a cemetery pleasant to walk in. . . . How beautifully they go to…

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If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step…

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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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