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There are 182 quotes for the author Henry David Thoreau

Quotations 161 to 180 of 182 Results Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

How earthy old people become - moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets.

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

Visit the Navy-Yard, and behold a marine, such a man as an American government can make, or such as it can make a man with its black arts - a mere shadow and reminiscence of humanity, a man laid out alive and standing, and already, as one may say, buried under arms with funeral accompaniments.

The bluebird carries the sky on his back.

I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.

Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument.

It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all.

The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.

A kitten is so flexible that she is almost double; the hind parts are equivalent to another kitten with which the forepart plays. She does not discover that her tail belongs to her until you tread on it.

Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends... Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls.

To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.

Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.

The Brahmins say that in their books there are many predictions of times in which it will rain. But press those books as strongly as you can, you can not get out of them a drop of water. So you can not get out of all the books that contain the best precepts the smallest good deed.

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