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Be not merely good. Be good fo...

Be not merely good. Be good for something.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

Simplify, simplify, simplify....

Simplify, simplify, simplify.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

I saw a muskrat come out of a ...

I saw a muskrat come out of a hole in the ice ... While I am looking at him, I am thinking what he is thinking of me. He is a different sort of man, that's all.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

Every man who has ever been ea...

Every man who has ever been earnest to preserve his higher or poetic faculties in the best condition, has been particularly inclined to abstain from animal food

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

I have just been through the p...

I have just been through the process of killing a cistudo for the sake of science; but I cannot excuse myself for this murder, and see that such actions are inconsistent with the poetic perception, however they may serve science, and will affect the quality of my observations. I pray that I may walk more innocently and serenely through nature. No reasoning whatever reconciles me to this act. It affects my day injuriously. I have lost some self-respect. I have a murderer's experience to a degree.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

Must the citizen ever for a mo...

Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man a conscience, then? I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward. It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right. The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right... Law never made men a whit more just; and, by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents of injustice.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

The first sparrow of spring! T...

The first sparrow of spring! The year beginning with younger hope than ever!... What at such a time are histories, chronologies, traditions, and all written revelations? The brooks sing carols and glees to the spring.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

Maturity is when all of your m...

Maturity is when all of your mirrors turn into windows.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

Let your life be a counter-fri...

Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the machine. What I have to do is to see, at any rate, that I do not lend myself to the wrong which I condemn.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

As the stars looked to me when...

As the stars looked to me when I was a shepherd in Assyria, they look to me now as a New-Englander.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

The scenery, when it is truly ...

The scenery, when it is truly seen, reacts on the life of the seer. How to live. How to get the most of life.... How to extract its honey from the flower of the world.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

Real power is measured by how ...

Real power is measured by how much you can let things be.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

However mean your life is, mee...

However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poor-house.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

We fritter away our energy and...

We fritter away our energy and creativity . . .
we get bogged down in the thick of thin things.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

The aim of the laborer should ...

The aim of the laborer should be, not to get his living, to get 'a good job,' but to perform well a certain work; and, even in a pecuniary sense, it would be economy for a town to pay its laborers so well that they would not feel that they were working for low ends, as for a livelihood merely, but for scientific, or even moral ends. Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

I am struck by the fact that t...

I am struck by the fact that the more slowly trees grow at first, the sounder they are at the core, and I think that the same is true of human beings.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

If you look over a list of med...

If you look over a list of medicinal recipes in vogue in the last century, how foolish and useless they are seen to be! And yet we use equally absurd ones with faith today.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

You must walk sometimes perfec...

You must walk sometimes perfectly free, not prying or inquisitive, not bent on seeing things. Throw away a whole day for a single expansion, a single inspiration of air. You must walk so gently as to hear the finest sounds, the faculties being in repose. Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

If the day and night are such ...

If the day and night are such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, more starry, more immortal - that is your success.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

A gun will give you the body, ...

A gun will give you the body, not the bird

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

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