Youth Quotes by Henry David Thoreau

22 Youth quotes by Henry David Thoreau

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Thoreau’s contemplative style brings a quiet strength to the topic of youth. In these 22 quotes he links the vigor of young minds with the steady rhythm of the natural world, offering a grounding perspective.

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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

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How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?

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I derive no pleasure from talking with a young woman simply because she has regular features.

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Noone are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

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One generation abandons the enterprises of another like stranded vessels.

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In all perception of the truth there is a divine ecstasy, an inexpressible delirium of joy, as when a youth embraces his…

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The books for young people say a great deal about the selection of Friends; it is because they really have nothing to…

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When I visit again some haunt of my youth, I am glad to find that nature wears so well. The landscape is…

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So near along life's stream are the fountains of innocence and youth making fertile its sandy margin; and the voyageur will do…

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Though the youth at last grows indifferent, the laws of the universe are not indifferent, but are forever on the side of…

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The youth may build or plant or sail, only let him not be hindered from doing that which he tells me he…

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Nature is fair in proportion as the youth is pure. The heavens and the earth are one flower ; the earth is…

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I have lived some thirty years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even…

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I mean that they (students) should not play life, or study it merely, while the community supports them at this expensive game,…

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In Homer and Chaucer there is more of the innocence and serenity of youth than in the more modern and moral poets.…

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As we grow older, we live more coarsely, we relax a little in our disciplines, and, to some extent, cease to obey…

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Late in the afternoon we passed a man on the shore fishing with a long birch pole… The characteristics and pursuits of…

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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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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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Age is no better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it…

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Age is no better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it…

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What youth or maiden conspires with the wild luxuriant beauty of Nature? She flourishes most alone, far from the towns where they…

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

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