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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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Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.
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Mock
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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.
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Nature
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Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.
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Understand
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How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book! The book exists for us, perchance, that will explain our miracles and reveal new ones. The at present unutterable things we may find somewhere uttered.
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Books
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We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.
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Understand
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It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
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Prejudice
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Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.
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Nature
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I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beech-tree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines.
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Relaxation
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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.
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Music
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I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark.
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Writing
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If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
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Miscellaneous
Source: Walden, Conclusion, 1854
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Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have left an indelible impression, and we are ever and anon reminded of them.
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Inspirational
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Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.
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Good
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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
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Work
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As if we could kill time without injuring eternity!
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Time
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Politics is the gizzard of society, full of grit and gravel, and the two political parties are its opposite halves - sometimes split into quarters - which grind on each other. Not only individuals but states have thus a confirmed dyspepsia.
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Politics
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What people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can.
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Perseverance
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I stand in awe of my body.
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Miscellaneous
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It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.
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Miscellaneous
Source: Walden, 1854
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How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
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Writing
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