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Henry David Thoreau Quotes

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Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder ...

- Henry David Thoreau

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Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

- Henry David Thoreau

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It is not enough to be busy; so are the ants. The question is: what are we busy about?

- Henry David Thoreau

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I stand in awe of my body.

- Henry David Thoreau

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Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- Henry David Thoreau

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Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

- Henry David Thoreau

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Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life? We are determined to be starved before we are hungry.

- Henry David Thoreau

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Let go of the past and go for the future. Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you imagined.

- Henry David Thoreau

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That aim in life is highest which requires the highest and finest discipline.

- Henry David Thoreau

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What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?

- Henry David Thoreau

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To be awake is to be alive.

- Henry David Thoreau

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How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends, that we might go and meet their ideal cousins.

- Henry David Thoreau

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We shall see but little way if we require to understand what we see. How few things can a man measure with the tape of his understanding! How many greater things might he be seeing in the meanwhile!

- Henry David Thoreau

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As if you could kill time without injuring eternity!

- Henry David Thoreau

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The only way to tell the truth is to speak with kindness. Only the words of a loving man can be heard.

- Henry David Thoreau

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It takes two to speak truth -- one to speak and another to hear.

- Henry David Thoreau

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I think that we may safely trust a good deal more than we do.

- Henry David Thoreau

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My profession is always to be alert, to find God in nature, to know God's lurking places, to attend to all the oratorios and the operas in nature.

- Henry David Thoreau

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Dreams are the touchstones of our character.

- Henry David Thoreau

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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

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Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.

- Henry David Thoreau

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There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

- Henry David Thoreau

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Love must be as much a light as it is a flame.

- Henry David Thoreau

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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

- Henry David Thoreau

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