470 Quotations by Henry David Thoreau
- 101. Humility like the darkness, reveals the heavenly lights.

- 102. I am resolved that I will not through my humility become the devil's attorney. I will endeavor to sp ...

- 103. I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Seve ...

- 104. I believe that what so saddens the reformer is not his sympathy with his fellows in distress, but, t ...

- 105. I came into this world, not chiefly to make this a good place to live in, but to live in it, be it g ...

- 106. I derive no pleasure from talking with a young woman simply because she has regular features.

- 107. I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the worl ...

- 108. I do not know how to distinguish between our waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the l ...

- 109. I do not propose to write an ode to dejection, but to brag as lustily as chanticleer in the morning, ...

- 110. I fear chiefly lest my expression may not be extravagant enough, may not wander far enough beyond th ...

- 111. I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, ...

- 112. I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beech ...

- 113. I had three chairs in my house: one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.

- 114. I have a deep sympathy with war; it so apes the gait and bearing of the soul.

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

- 116. I have been breaking silence these twenty-three years and have hardly made a rent in it.

- 117. I have found it to be the most serious objection to coarse labors long continued, that they compelle ...

- 118. I have learned this at least by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of ...

- 119. I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to li ...

- 120. I have lived some thirty-odd years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valu ...

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