Best Henry David Thoreau Wisdom
- The boy gathers materials for a temple, and then when he is thirty, concludes to build a woodshed. Boy
- Why should we be startled by death? Life is a constant putting off of the mortal coil - coat, cuticle, flesh and bones, all old… All
- As far back as I can remember I have unconsciously referred to the experiences of a previous state of existence. Existence
- Truth is always paradoxical. Always Paradoxical
- I lived in Judea eighteen hundred years ago, but I never knew that there was such a one as Christ among my contemporaries. Ago
- But government in which the majority rule in all cases can not be based on justice, even as far as men understand it. All
- My desire for knowledge is intermittent; but my desire to commune with the spirit of the universe, to be intoxicated with the fumes, call it,… Atmosphere
- Trade and commerce, if they were not made of Indian rubber, would never manage to bounce over the obstacles which legislators are continually putting in… Bounce
- Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable but positive hindrances to our progress. Our life… Accounts
- Cultivate the habit of early rising. It is unwise to keep the head long on a level with the feet. Cultivate
- Who could believe in the prophecies ... that the world would end this summer, while one milkweed with faith matured its seeds. Believe
- I love you not as something private and personal, which is my own, but as something universal and worthy of love which I have found. Found
- Removing the weeds, putting fresh soil about the bean stems, and encouraging this weed which I had sown, making the yellow soil express its summer… Bean
- A man has not seen a thing who has not felt it. Felt
- All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong. All
- One cannot too soon forget his errors and misdemeanors for to dwell long upon them is to add to the offense, and repentance and sorrow… Add
- Being is the great explainer. Explainer
- Give me the old familiar world, post-office and all, with this ever new self, with this infinite expectation and faith, which does not know when… All
- Your religion is where your love is. Life
- It is the marriage of the soul with nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination Birth
- We need the tonic of wildness and...nature. Environment
- Whenever I have read any part of the Vedas, I have felt that some unearthly and unknown light illuminated me. In the great teaching of… Age
- A town is saved, not more by the righteous men in it, than by the woods and swamps that surround it. Environment
- The improved means to the unimproved end. End
- Don't be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Cheat
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