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A taste for the beautiful is m...

A taste for the beautiful is most cultivated out of doors

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

Be as the sailor who keeps the...

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, but we will maintain a true course.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

The millions are awake enough ...

The millions are awake enough for physical labor; but only one in a million is awake enough for effective intellectual exertion, only one in a hundred million to a poetic or divine life. To be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake. How could I have looked him in the face? We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aids, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn, which does not forsake us in our soundest sleep. I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquest

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

Kindness to children, love for...

Kindness to children, love for children, goodness to children-- these are the only investments that never fail.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

Most men, even in this compara...

Most men, even in this comparatively free country, through mere ignorance and mistake, are so occupied with the factitious cares and superfluously coarse labors of life that its finer fruits cannot be plucked by them.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

A single gentle rain makes the...

A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener. So our prospects brighten on the influx of better thoughts. We should be blessed if we lived in the present always, and took advantage of every accident that befell us.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

The only sin in the world is i...

The only sin in the world is ignorance.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

The mass of men lead lives of ...

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

The words which express our fa...

The words which express our faith and piety are not definite; yet they are significant and fragrant like frankincense to superior natures.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

I quietly declare war with the...

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 is usual in such cases.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

Measure your health by your sy...

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 of an early morning walk does not banish sleep, if the warble of the first bluebird does not thrill you -know that the morning and spring of your life are past. Thus may you feel your pulse.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

Politics is the gizzard of soc...

Politics is the gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

The most attractive sentences ...

The most attractive sentences are not perhaps the wisest, but the surest and soundest.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

When I consider that the noble...

When I consider that the noble animals have been exterminated here - the cougar, panther, lynx, wolverine, wolf, bear, moose, deer, the beaver, the turkey, etc, etc - I cannot but feel as I lived in a tamed, and, as it were, emasculated country.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

Thank God, they cannot cut dow...

Thank God, they cannot cut down the clouds!

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

I found that they knew but lit...

I found that they knew but little of the history of their race, and could be entertained by stories about their ancestors as readily as any way .

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

Trees indeed have hearts....

Trees indeed have hearts.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

It is not that we love to be a...

It is not that we love to be alone, but that we love to soar, and when we do soar, the company grows thinner and thinner until there is none at all. We are not the less to aim at the summits though the multitude does not ascend them.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

Books are the carriers of civi...

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

It is difficult to begin witho...

It is difficult to begin without borrowing, but perhaps it is the most generous course thus to permit your fellowmen to have an interest in your enterprise.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

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