Best Henry David Thoreau Proverbs
- Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice. Instant
- Still we live meanly like ants, though the fable tells us we were long ago changed into men. Ago
- When a dog runs at you, whistle for him. Acceptance
- Only nature has a right to grieve perpetually, for she only is innocent. Soon the ice will melt, and the blackbirds sing along the river… Along
- We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character. Adequate
- Wherever a man goes, men will pursue him and paw him with their dirty institutions, and, if they can, constrain him to belong to their… Belong
- The way in which men cling to old institutions after the life has departed out of them, and out of themselves, reminds me of those… Apprehensive
- Morning is when I am awake and there is a dawn in me. Awake
- The purity men love is like the mists which envelope the earth, and not like the azure ether beyond. Azure
- A name pronounced is the recognition of the individual to whom it belongs. He who can pronounce my name aright, he can call me, and… Aright
- The stars are the apexes of what wonderful triangles! What distant and different beings in the various mansions of the universe are contemplating the same… Apexes
- We have not so good a right to hate any as our Friend. Any
- What men call social virtues, good fellowship, is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter, which lie close together to keep each other… Call
- I think that we may safely trust a good deal more than we do. We may waive just so much care of ourselves as we… Bestow
- He who is only a traveler learns things at second-hand and by the halves, and is poor authority. We are most interested when science reports… Account
- A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority; it is not even a minority then; but it is irresistible when it clogs by… Clogs
- Nothing is so much to be feared as fear. Fear
- Be as the sailor who keeps the polestar in his eye. By so doing we may not arrive at our port within a calculable period,… Arrive
- The words which express our faith and piety are not definite; yet they are significant and fragrant like frankincense to superior natures. Definite
- I quietly declare war with the State, after my fashion, though I will still make use and get advantage of her as I can, as… Advantage
- Measure your health by your sympathy with morning and spring. If there is no response in you to the awakening of nature -if the prospect… Awakening
- Politics is the gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel. Full
- All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be. All
- Hope and the future for me are not in lawns and cultivated fields, not in towns and cities, but in the impervious and quaking swamps. Cities
- When my hoe tinkled against the stones, that music echoed to the woods and the sky, and was an accompaniment to my labor which yielded… Accompaniment
More Ways to Read Henry David Thoreau Quotes
- Best Henry David Thoreau Quotes (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
- Best Henry David Thoreau Sayings (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
- Best Henry David Thoreau Quotations (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
- Best Henry David Thoreau Words (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
- Best Henry David Thoreau Lines (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
- Best Henry David Thoreau Thoughts (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
- Best Henry David Thoreau Wisdom (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)