Henry David Thoreau Quotes


Youth gets together with their materials to build a bridge to the moon or maybe a palace on earth; then in middle age they decide to build a woodshed with them instead. - Henry David Thoreau


You must not blame me if I do talk to the clouds. - Henry David Thoreau


You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land, there is no other life but this. - Henry David Thoreau


You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure. - Henry David Thoreau


You know about a person who deeply interests you more than you can be told. A look, a gesture, an act, which to everybody else is insignificant tells you more about that one than words can. - Henry David Thoreau


You cannot perceive beauty but with a serene mind. - Henry David Thoreau


Yet some can be patriotic who have no self-respect, and sacrifice the greater to the less. They love the soil which makes their graves, but have no sympathy with the spirit which may still animate their clay. Patriotism is a maggot in their heads. - Henry David Thoreau


Writing may be either the record of a deed or a deed. It is nobler when it is a deed. - Henry David Thoreau


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