Henry David Thoreau Quotes

Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
American Author
Born: Jul 12, 1817
Died: May 6, 1862
Life Man Men Nature Will You
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We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn. Henry David Thoreau
Expectation Aid Ourselves Must Dawn Learn Infinite Mechanical Awake Keep
Those whom we can love, we can hate; to others we are indifferent. Henry David Thoreau
Love Hate Others Those Indifferent Whom
Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand. Henry David Thoreau
Nature Genius Divinity Hand Escapes Snowflake Full
The perception of beauty is a moral test. Henry David Thoreau
Perception Beauty Moral Test
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high. Henry David Thoreau
Better Men Long Aim Run High Something Only Long Run Had Hit Therefore
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on? Henry David Thoreau
You Space Put House Got Planet Use Tolerable
The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency. Henry David Thoreau
Truth Truth Is Expediency Consistency Lawyer Consistent
Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Henry David Thoreau
Man Desperate Enterprises Haste He Perhaps Drummer Because Does His Hears Different Pace Succeed Should Companions Keep Why
There is one consolation in being sick; and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before. Henry David Thoreau
Health You Better Before Sick State Consolation Possibility Recover Were Than May Being Ever
The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest. Henry David Thoreau
You Earnest Squirrel Dies Jest
After the first blush of sin comes its indifference. Henry David Thoreau
First Indifference Sin After Blush
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
Time Good Me Live Several Seemed More Could Had Perhaps Left Any Woods Spare Reason Lives
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer. Henry David Thoreau
Me Thought Compliment Attended Answer Greatest Asked Paid Ever
Simplify, simplify. Henry David Thoreau
Simplify
'Tis healthy to be sick sometimes. Henry David Thoreau
Health Sometimes Healthy Sick Tis
Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it? Henry David Thoreau
You Man Grief Will Long Every Way Sun See Spirit Shadow Only Casts Imperfectly Never He Him Opposite Noon His Falls Did Short Which Turn Body Eve Every Man
The life which men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others? Henry David Thoreau
Life Men Others Kind Exaggerate Praise Any Expense Regard Which Successful Should Why
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end. Henry David Thoreau
Distract Our Pretty Inventions Attention Toys End Improved Wont Which Means Serious Things
It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes. Henry David Thoreau
Men Clothes Relative Rank Would Retain How How Far Were Question Interesting Far
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. Henry David Thoreau
World Wealth Books Generations Fit Nations Inheritance Treasured
To be awake is to be alive. Henry David Thoreau
Alive Awake
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Henry David Thoreau
Life You Yourself Too Out Moral Cheat May Much
We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success. Henry David Thoreau
Success Dark Walk Our Way Must Only Part Toward Leap Goal Then
Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces. Henry David Thoreau
Other Thor More Powerful Pieces Gentle Hammer His Than Breaks Persuasion Her
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
News Women Gossip Old Tea Philosopher Over Read Edit Old Women Who
All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man. Henry David Thoreau
Wisdom Wise Man Wise Man Worldly Once Some Heresy
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