470 Quotations by Henry David Thoreau
- 81. Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are so ...
- 82. Having each some shingles of thought well dried, we sat and whittled them.
- 83. He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate.
- 84. He is blessed over all mortals who loses no moment of the passing life.
- 85. He is the best sailor who can steer within the fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power o ...
- 86. He who distinguishes the true savor of his food can never be a glutton; he who does not cannot be ot ...
- 87. He who is only a traveler learns things at second-hand and by the halves, and is poor authority. We ...
- 88. Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
- 89. Heroes are often the most ordinary of men.
- 90. How can they expect a harvest of thought who have not had the seedtime of character.
- 91. How can we remember our ingnorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all t ...
- 92. How could youths better learn to live than by once trying the experiment of living? Methinks this wo ...
- 93. How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot w ...
- 94. How earthy old people become -- moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no fo ...
- 95. How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book! The book exists for us, p ...
- 96. How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends, that we may go and meet their i ...
- 97. How sweet it would be to treat men and things, for an hour, for just what they are!
- 98. How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
- 99. However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, ...
- 100. However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate pov ...
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