Henry David Thoreau Quotes

• A truly good book is something as wildly natural and primitive, mysterious and marvelous, ambrosial and fertile, as a fungus or a lichen.

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• Men reverence one another, not yet God.

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• We seem but to linger in manhood to tell the dreams of our childhood, and they vanish out of memory ere we learn the language.

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  Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

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

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• Commonly men will only be brave as their fathers were brave, or timid.

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

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• He who hears the rippling of rivers in these degenerate days will not utterly despair.

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  Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.

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• It is hard to forget that which it is worse than useless to remember.

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• It is remarkable how long men will believe in the bottomlessness of a pond without taking the trouble to sound it.

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• Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

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  If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.

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• Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live.

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• When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.

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• Beware of all enterprises that require a new set of clothes.

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• There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.

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

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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.

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

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