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...how deep the ruts of tradit...

...how deep the ruts of tradition and conformity!

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

Unjust laws exist: shall we be...

Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them?

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

A very few, as heroes, patriot...

A very few, as heroes, patriots, martyrs, reformers in the
great sense, and men, serve the state with their conscience also,
and so necessarily resist it for the most part, and they are
commonly treated as enemies by it.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

Be resolutely and faithfully w...

Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

He who hears the rippling of r...

He who hears the rippling of rivers in these degenerate days will not utterly despair.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

If one advances confidently in...

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; or the old laws be expanded, and interpreted in his favor in a more liberal sense, and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

I left the woods for as good a...

I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live, and could not spare any more time for that one.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

Amid a world of noisy, shallow...

Amid a world of noisy, shallow actors it is noble to stand aside and say, 'I will simply be.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

Write while the heat is in you...

Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

Do not lose hold of your dream...

Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

You must not blame me if I do ...

You must not blame me if I do talk to the clouds.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

I make myself rich by making m...

I make myself rich by making my wants few.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

O how I laugh when I think of ...

O how I laugh when I think of my vague indefinite riches. No run on my bank can drain it, for my wealth is not possession but enjoyment.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

With a little more deliberatio...

With a little more deliberation in the choice of their pursuits, all men would perhaps become essentially students and observers, for certainly their nature and destiny are interesting to all alike.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

In war, in some sense, lies th...

In war, in some sense, lies the very genius of law. It is law creative and active; it is the first principle of the law. What is human warfare but just this, - an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party. Men make an arbitrary code, and, because it is not right, they try to make it prevail by might. The moral law does not want any champion. Its asserters do not go to war. It was never infringed with impunity. It is inconsistent to decry war and maintain law, for if there were no need of war t

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

In my Pantheon, Pan still reig...

In my Pantheon, Pan still reigns in his pristine glory, with his ruddy face, his flowing beard, and his shaggy body, his pipe and his crook, his nymph Echo, and his chosen daughter Iambe; for the great god Pan is not dead, as was rumored. No god ever dies. Perhaps of all the gods of New England and of ancient Greece, I am most constant at his shrine.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

No man's thoughts are new, but...

No man's thoughts are new, but the style of their expression is the never-failing novelty which cheers and refreshes men. If we were to answer the question, whether the mass of men, as we know them, talk as the standard authors and reviewers write, or rather as this man writes, we should say that he alone begins to write their language at all.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

However much we admire the ora...

However much we admire the orator's occasional bursts of eloquence, the noblest written words are commonly as far behind or abovethe fleeting spoken language as the firmament with its stars is behind the clouds.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

It would seem as if the very l...

It would seem as if the very language of our parlors would lose all its nerve and degenerate into palaver wholly, our lives pass at such remoteness from its symbols, and its metaphors and tropes are necessarily so far fetched.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

The dinner even is only the pa...

The dinner even is only the parable of a dinner, commonly.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

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