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Good Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- When were the good and the brave ever in a majority?
- A truly good book is something as natural, and as unexpectedly and unaccountably fair and perfect, as a wild-flower discovered on the prairies of the…
- Good for the body is the work of the body, good for the soul the work of the soul, and good for either the work…
- Only the traveling is good which reveals to me the value of home and enables me to enjoy it better.
- All good things are cheap: all bad are very dear.
- I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do.
- Be not merely good. Be good for something.
- We have not so good a right to hate any as our Friend.
- 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…
- 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…
- Is it not possible that an individual may be right and a government wrong? Are laws to be enforced simply because they were made? Or…
- As for Doing-good, that is one of the professions which are full.
- As we lay huddled together under the tent, which leaked considerably about the sides, with our baggage at our feet, we listened to some of…
- A truly good book is something as wildly natural and primitive, mysterious and marvelous, ambrosial and fertile as a fungus or a lichen.
- The best books are not read even by those who are called good readers. What does our Concord culture amount to? There is in this…
- If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment. [Like they say, 'Every cloud has a silver lining'...so if…
- We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect. [So why not suspect good rather than bad in events, people and life…
- You must love the crust of the earth on which you dwell more than the sweet crust of any bread or cake. You must be…
- Before the end of December, generally, they experience their first thawing. Those which a month ago were sour, crabbed, and quite unpalatable to the civilized…
- Even the utmost good-will and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say,…
- Books, not which afford us a cowering enjoyment, but in which each thought is of unusual daring; such as an idle man cannot read, and…
- Art is not tame, and Nature is not wild, in the ordinary sense. A perfect work of man's art would also be wild or natural…
- By a conscious effort of the mind we can stand aloof from actions and their consequences; and all things, good and bad, go by us…
- Bread may not always nourish us; but it always does us good, it even takes stiffness out of our joints, and makes us supple and…
- I am resolved that I will not through humility become the devil's attorney. I will endeavor to speak a good word for the truth.
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