Love Quotes and Sayings

Some of my favorite Henry david Thoreau Quotes ..

“Friends… they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.”

“If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.”

“There never was and is not likely soon to be a nation of philosophers, nor am I certain it is desirable that there should be.”

“If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?”

“Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have left an indelible impression, and we are ever and anon reminded of them.”

“If a man loses pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music in which he hears, however measured, or far away.”

“Our life is frittered away by detail… simplify, simplify.”

“Justice is sweet and musical; but injustice is harsh and discordant.”

“I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.”

“I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.”

“Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else.”

“The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.”

“Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.”

“Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.”

“Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.”

“There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.”

“As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.”

“Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.”

“As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.”

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

“The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.”

“There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.”

“It is too late to be studying Hebrew; it is more important to understand even the slang of to-day.”

“What’s the use of a fine house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?”

“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.”

“Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!”

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