470 Quotations by Henry David Thoreau
- 41. Between whom there is hearty truth, there is love.

- 42. Beware of all enterprises that require a new set of clothes.

- 43. Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science c ...

- 44. Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations

- 45. Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.

- 46. Books, not which afford us a cowering enjoyment, but in which each thought is of unusual daring; suc ...

- 47. By avarice and selfishness, and a groveling habit (from which none of us is free) of chiefly regardi ...

- 48. City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

- 49. Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?

- 50. Cultivate the habit of early rising. It is unwise to keep the head long on a level with the feet.

- 51. Did you ever hear of a man who had striven all his life faithfully and singly toward an object and i ...

- 52. Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.

- 53. Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.

- 54. Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good ...

- 55. Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

- 56. Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceas ...

- 57. Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else.

- 58. Do what you love. Know you own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

- 59. Don't be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.

- 60. Dreams are the touchstones of our personality.

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