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| QUOTE COLLECTIONS OF Henry David Thoreau |
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Quotes By author - Starting with H - Henry David Thoreau
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There are 182 quotes for the author Henry David Thoreau
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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.
Subject:
Wisdom
Life
Time
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As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.
Subject:
Mind
Thinking
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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.
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Patriotism
Justice
Laws
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What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.
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War
God
Laws
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Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.
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Success
Business
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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.
Subject:
Nature
Hypocrisy
Human Nature
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Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.
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Good
Morality
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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
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Life
Mankind
Source: Walden", 1854
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Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.
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Life
Death
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Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
Subject:
Life
Respect
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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.
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Laws
Simplicity
Solitude
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Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.
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Life
Morality
Philosophical
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Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
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Life
Goal
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There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.
Subject:
Life
Failure
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I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
Subject:
Choice
Opportunity
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Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
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Failure
Good
Source: Walden
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In what concerns you much, do not think that you have companions
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Wisdom
Friendship
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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.
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Success
Desperation
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I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.
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Criticism
Truth
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[Water is] the only drink for a wise man.
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Wisdom
Drinking
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