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I put a piece of paper under m...

I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

Our life is frittered away by ...

Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

Thank God men cannot fly, and ...

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

To affect the quality of the d...

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

In wildness is the preservatio...

In wildness is the preservation of the world.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

Nature is full of genius, full...

Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

The greatest compliment that w...

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

All men are children, and of o...

All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

Most of the luxuries and many ...

Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

Justice is sweet and musical; ...

Justice is sweet and musical; but injustice is harsh and discordant.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

If a man walks in the woods fo...

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

Through our own recovered inno...

Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

I have never found a companion...

I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

To a philosopher all news, as ...

To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

What is called genius is the a...

What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

How vain it is to sit down to ...

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

It is what a man thinks of him...

It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

It takes two to speak the trut...

It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

Before printing was discovered...

Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

Do not trouble yourself much t...

Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends... Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

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