All Henry David Thoreau Quotes
I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
Henry David Thoreau
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I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
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Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?
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What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
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What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
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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
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Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
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I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.
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In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.
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Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.
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What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
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There never was and is not likely soon to be a nation of philosophers, nor am I certain it is desirable that there should be.
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Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.
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God reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to us.
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