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Thinking Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof.
- You think that I am impoverishing myself withdrawing from men, but in my solitude I have woven for myself a silken web or chrysalis, and,…
- Do not despair of life. Think of the fox, prowling in a winter night to satisfy his hunger. His race survives; I do not believe…
- No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof. What everybody echoes or in silence passes by as true to-day may…
- The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.
- We live thick and are in each other's way, and stumble over one another, and I think we thus lose some respect for one another.
- I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do.
- I saw a muskrat come out of a hole in the ice ... While I am looking at him, I am thinking what he is…
- 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…
- This whole earth which we inhabit is but a point in space. How far apart, think you, dwell the most distant inhabitants of yonder star,…
- When I read some of the rules for speaking and writing the English language correctly, I think any fool can make a rule, and every…
- In solitude especialy do we begin to appreciate the advantage of living with someone who can think.
- Men rush to California and Australia as if the true gold were to be found in that direction but that is to go to the…
- Four things to think about. 1. Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes. 2. Let your…
- Children, who play life, discern its true law and relations more clearly than men, who fail to live it worthily, but who think that they…
- So our human life but dies down to its root, and still puts forth its green blade to eternity.
- In my walks, I would fain return to my senses. What business have I in the woods if I am thinking of something out of…
- To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.
- As a man thinks of himself, so he is.
- I am alarmed when it happens that I have walked a mile into the woods bodily, without getting there in spirit. In my afternoon walk…
- I am wont to think that men are not so much the keepers of herds as herds are the keepers of men. The former are…
- No doubt another may also think for me; but it is not therefore desirable that he should do so to the exclusion of my thinking…
- Most men appear never to have considered what a house is, and are actually though needlessly poor all their lives because they think that they…
- Drive a nail home and clinch it so faithfully that you can wake up in the night and think of your work with satisfaction -…
- Of course it is of no use to direct our steps to the woods, if they do not carry us thither. I am alarmed when…
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