All Henry David Thoreau Quotes
There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
Henry David Thoreau
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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
Henry David Thoreau in
Age
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Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
Henry David Thoreau in
Sports
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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
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Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.
Henry David Thoreau
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Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!
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.
Henry David Thoreau
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If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
Henry David Thoreau
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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 in
Nature
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Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars.
Henry David Thoreau
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All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
Henry David Thoreau in
Wisdom
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