Henry David Thoreau

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Biography : American essayist, poet and philosopher.
Born: 1817 - Died: 1862
Period:
19th century
Place of birth: United States

United States

Henry David Thoreau - Quotes

He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate.
Henry David Thoreau

One of the most attractive things about the flowers is their beautiful reserve.
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flower

Be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.
Henry David Thoreau

thought

Glances of true beauty can be seen in the faces of those who live in true meekness.
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beauty

I would have my thoughts, like wild apples, to be food for walkers, and will not warrant them to be palatable, if tasted in the house.
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thought

Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
Henry David Thoreau

Truths and roses have thorns about them.
Henry David Thoreau

All good things are wild and free.
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good

What Nature is to the mind she is also to the body.
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Happy the man who observes the heavenly and the terrestrial law in just proportion.
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The true fruit of nature can only be plucked with a delicate hand not bribed by any earthly reward, and a fluttering heart. No hired man can help us to gather this crop.
Henry David Thoreau - Journal

nature

Waves of a serene life pass over us from time to time, like flakes of sunlight over the fields in cloudy weather.
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I am simply what I am, or I begin to be that. I live in the present. I only remember the past, and anticipate the future. I love to live.
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Let us consider the way in which we spend our lives.
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life

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.
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No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.
Henry David Thoreau

Those whom we can love, we can hate to others we are indifferent.
Henry David Thoreau

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.
Henry David Thoreau

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

Faith never makes a confession.
Henry David Thoreau

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.
Henry David Thoreau

nature

Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.
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writing

As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.
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society

There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
Henry David Thoreau

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
Henry David Thoreau

Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.
Henry David Thoreau

There is always a present and extant life, be it better or worse, which all combine to uphold.
Henry David Thoreau

'Tis healthy to be sick sometimes.
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health

When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.
Henry David Thoreau

The law will never make a man free it is men who have got to make the law free.
Henry David Thoreau

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