Quotes by Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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~ As if you could kill time without injuring eternity. ~

Henry David Thoreau

~ Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven. ~

Henry David Thoreau

~ We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal and then leap in the dark to our success. ~

Henry David Thoreau

~ Music is perpetual, and only the hearing is intermittent. ~

Henry David Thoreau

~ Wealth is the ability to fully experience life. ~

Henry David Thoreau

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

Henry David Thoreau

~ Associate reverently, as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts. ~

Henry David Thoreau

~ To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning. ~

Henry David Thoreau

~ All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong. ~

Henry David Thoreau

~ Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something. ~

Henry David Thoreau

~ 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

~ Humility, like darkness, reveals the heavenly lights. ~

Henry David Thoreau

~ Poetry implies the whole truth, philosophy expresses only a particle of it. ~

Henry David Thoreau

~ Water is the only drink for a wise man. ~

Henry David Thoreau

~ The boy gathers materials for a temple, and then when he is thirty, concludes to build a woodshed. ~

Henry David Thoreau

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