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Henry David Thoreau Quotes
Henry David Thoreau Quotes
Henry David Thoreau
American
Author
Born:
Jul 12
,
1817
Died:
May 6
,
1862
Life
Man
Men
Nature
Will
You
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It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
Henry David Thoreau
Wisdom
You
Matters
See
Look
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
Henry David Thoreau
Inspirational
Music
Man
He
Step
Perhaps
Drummer
Him
Because
Does
However
His
Hears
Different
Pace
Which
Far
Far Away
Measured
Companions
Keep
Away
The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
Henry David Thoreau
Friendship
Words
Language
Meanings
What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.
Henry David Thoreau
Motivational
Life
Health
Genius
Abundance
An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
Henry David Thoreau
Day
Morning
Blessing
Walk
Whole
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
Henry David Thoreau
Friendship
Knowledge
Ignorance
True Friendship
Darkness
Depend
True
True Knowledge
Does
Afford
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
Henry David Thoreau
You
Yourself
Live
Every
Wave
Launch
Must
Find
Eternity
Your
Moment
Each
Present
Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.
Henry David Thoreau
You
Back
Unless
Way
Never
Look
Go
Planning
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
Henry David Thoreau
Life
Live
See
Only
Deliberately
Could
Facts
Had
Wished
Learn
Because
Came
Discover
Die
Front
Essential
Woods
If I Could
Teach
Lived
To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.
Henry David Thoreau
Life
Day
Quality
Highest
Affect
Arts
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.
Henry David Thoreau
Life
Success
Dreams
Will
Live
Meet
Direction
He
Advances
Hours
His
Endeavors
Unexpected
Confidently
Common
Which
Imagined
Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
Henry David Thoreau
Environmental
God
Thank God
Sky
Fly
Men
Earth
Lay
Well
Thank
Cannot
Waste
There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
Henry David Thoreau
Evil
Striking
Thousand
Hacking
Branches
Root
Who
Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.
Henry David Thoreau
Time
Stream
Go
It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.
Henry David Thoreau
You
Clouds
Better
Paradise
Think
Atmosphere
Head
Clearer
Know
Than
Where
Them
Breathe
Your
Below
If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.
Henry David Thoreau
Government
Nature
You
Injustice
Legal
Law
Say
Machine
Another
Break
Agent
Then
Requires
Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
Henry David Thoreau
Good
Goodness
Only
Never
Investment
Fails
As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.
Henry David Thoreau
Life
You
Solitude
Will
Poverty
Universe
Weakness
Laws
Simpler
Simplify
Nor
Your
There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.
Henry David Thoreau
Happiness
Life
You
Yourself
Value
Except
Any
Place
Choose
Bring
Truths and roses have thorns about them.
Henry David Thoreau
Thorns
About
Truths
Them
Roses
I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
Henry David Thoreau
Myself
Sit
Pumpkin
Would
Rather
Crowded
Velvet
Than
Cushion
In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.
Henry David Thoreau
Silence
Words
About
Misunderstanding
Understood
Tragedy
Begins
Human
Intercourse
Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
Henry David Thoreau
Life
Dreams
Our
Truest
Awake
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
Love
Environmental
Time
Day
Man
Citizen
Half
Before
Walks
Earth
Danger
Those
Enterprising
He
Days
Industrious
Bald
Making
His
Off
Being
Woods
Regarded
Them
Deemed
Each
Each Day
Her
The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.
Henry David Thoreau
Happiness
Faith
Fruit
Better
Seed
Smallest
Than
Largest
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
Henry David Thoreau
Work
You
Lost
Air
Castles
Put
Built
Where
Them
Should
Your
Now
Foundations
Need
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