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Henry David Thoreau Quotes
American
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Author
July 12, 1817 - May 6, 1862
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
Henry David Thoreau
Life
Facts
Die
Live
Because
Came
Could
Deliberately
Discover
Essential
Front
Had
If I Could
Learn
Lived
Only
See
Teach
Wished
Woods
I Came
What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.
Henry David Thoreau
Ahead
Behind
Us
Lies
Matters
Compared
Lives
Tiny
Within
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
Leaf
Will
View
Bear
Closest
Eye
Her
Insect
Inspection
Invites
Lay
Level
Our
Plain
She
Smallest
Take
Us
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.
Henry David Thoreau
Nature
You
Government
Legal
Agent
Another
Break
Injustice
Law
Machine
Requires
Say
Then
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.
Henry David Thoreau
Inspirational
Music
Man
Step
Away
Because
Companions
Different
Does
Drummer
Far
Far Away
He
Hears
Him
His
However
Keep
Measured
Pace
Perhaps
Which
There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.
Henry David Thoreau
Life
Getting
Who
More
Consumes
Fatal
Greater
He
His
Living
Part
Than
It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate.
Henry David Thoreau
Man
Fate
Himself
Really
Determines
His
Thinks
There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.
Henry David Thoreau
Nature
Anxiety
Leisure
Moments
Infinite
Repose
Stated
Toil
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
Henry David Thoreau
You
Space
House
Planet
Got
Put
Tolerable
Use
It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.
Henry David Thoreau
Clouds
You
Better
Think
Atmosphere
Below
Breathe
Clearer
Head
Know
Paradise
Than
Them
Where
Your
The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.
Henry David Thoreau
You
Squirrel
Dies
Earnest
Jest
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
Henry David Thoreau
Work
You
Your
Lost
Air
Built
Castles
Foundations
Need
Now
Put
Should
Them
Where
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Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
Henry David Thoreau
Good
Never
Only
Goodness
Investment
Fails
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
Henry David Thoreau
Alone
Man
Rich
Things
Afford
He
Number
Proportion
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
Henry David Thoreau
You
Live
Down
Sit
How
Stood
Up
Vain
Write
Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
Henry David Thoreau
Fool
Mind
Will
Make
Rule
Any
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.
Henry David Thoreau
Me
Compliment
Answer
Greatest
Asked
Attended
Ever
Paid
Thought
Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.
Henry David Thoreau
Sad
Regret
Never
Your
Cherish
Deeply
Integral
Interest
Live
Make
Most
Regrets
Separate
Smother
Sorrow
Tend
Till
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thoreau
Life
Success
Dreams
Will
Advances
Common
Confidently
Direction
Endeavors
He
His
Hours
Imagined
Live
Meet
Unexpected
Which
Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.
Henry David Thoreau
Inspirational
You
World
Your
Live
Around
Beliefs
Turn
Truths and roses have thorns about them.
Henry David Thoreau
Roses
Thorns
About
Them
Truths
I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.
Henry David Thoreau
I Am
Grateful
Thanksgiving
Perpetual
Am
This world is but a canvas to our imagination.
Henry David Thoreau
Art
World
Imagination
Canvas
Our
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
Henry David Thoreau
New
Generation
Old
Every
Fashions
Follows
Laughs
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
Life
Happiness
You
Yourself
Any
Bring
Choose
Except
Place
Value
It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
Henry David Thoreau
Wisdom
You
Look
See
Matters
The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.
Henry David Thoreau
Happiness
Faith
Fruit
Better
Largest
Seed
Smallest
Than
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
Henry David Thoreau
You
Yourself
Moment
Your
Live
Each
Eternity
Every
Find
Launch
Must
Present
Wave
Be not simply good - be good for something.
Henry David Thoreau
Good
Something
Simply
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.
Henry David Thoreau
Man
Drummer
Succeed
He
Because
Companions
Desperate
Different
Does
Enterprises
Haste
Hears
His
Keep
Pace
Perhaps
Should
Why
There is no remedy for love but to love more.
Henry David Thoreau
Love
More
Remedy
To Love
Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.
Henry David Thoreau
Best
You
Will
Luck
Composition
Goes
Nothing
Tricks
Write
I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
Henry David Thoreau
Clothes
New
Say
Beware
Enterprises
New Clothes
Rather
Require
The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.
Henry David Thoreau
Alone
Today
Man
Wait
Another
Goes
He
Must
Other
Ready
Start
Till
Travels
Who
If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
Henry David Thoreau
Disappointment
Will
Enough
Find
Compensation
Every
Quiet
Ready
Shall
None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
Henry David Thoreau
Age
Who
Old
Enthusiasm
Those
None
Outlived
I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.
Henry David Thoreau
Life
Business
Poetry
Think
Crime
Even
Incessant
Itself
More
Nothing
Opposed
Philosophy
Than
I Think
Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
Henry David Thoreau
Day
Only
Awake
Which
Things do not change; we change.
Henry David Thoreau
Change
Things
It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.
Henry David Thoreau
Men
Clothes
Question
Interesting
Far
How
How Far
Rank
Relative
Retain
Were
Would
Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
Henry David Thoreau
Sky
God
Fly
Environmental
Cannot
Earth
Lay
Men
Thank
Thank God
Waste
Well
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.
Henry David Thoreau
Life
Environmental
Men
Better
Alive
Creature
Dead
Destroy
Every
He
Moose
Pine
Preserve
Rather
Than
Trees
Understands
Who
Will
It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.
Henry David Thoreau
Nature
You
Man
Environmental
Deep
Appears
Both
Cannot
Law
Sympathy
Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.
Henry David Thoreau
Good
Only
Must
Something
Also
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.
Henry David Thoreau
Life
You
Yourself
May
Cheat
Moral
Much
Out
Too
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
Henry David Thoreau
Men
Quiet
Resignation
Lead
Confirmed
Desperation
Lives
Mass
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
Henry David Thoreau
Life
You
Anything
Price
Exchange
Amount
Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.
Henry David Thoreau
Myself
Intelligence
Earth
Shall
Am
Leaves
Mould
Partly
Vegetable
The bluebird carries the sky on his back.
Henry David Thoreau
Nature
Sky
Back
His
Bluebird
Carries
Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
Henry David Thoreau
Fish
Men
Sports
Go
Fishing
After
Knowing
Lives
Many
Without
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