Henry David Thoreau Short Quotes

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Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.

Henry David Thoreau
A sufficiently great and generous trust could never be abused.

Henry David Thoreau
The tree of Knowledge is a Tree of Knowledge of good and evil.

Henry David Thoreau
The virtue which we appreciate, we to some extent appropriate.

Henry David Thoreau
I have much to learn of the Indian, nothing of the missionary.

Henry David Thoreau
No man loses ever on a lower level by magnanimity on a higher.

Henry David Thoreau
The violence of love is as much to be dreaded as that of hate.

Henry David Thoreau
I am sure that I never read any memorable news in a newspaper.

Henry David Thoreau
There are sure to be two prescriptions diametrically opposite.

Henry David Thoreau
To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

Henry David Thoreau
I never was so rapid in my virtue but my vice kept up with me.

Henry David Thoreau
Speech is for the convenience of those who are hard of hearing.

Henry David Thoreau
Simplicity is the law of nature for men as well as for flowers.

Henry David Thoreau
What would human life be without forests, those natural cities?

Henry David Thoreau
So we defend ourselves and our henroosts, and maintain slavery.

Henry David Thoreau
Much of our poetry has the very best manners, but no character.

Henry David Thoreau
What the first philosopher taught the last will have to repeat.

Henry David Thoreau
May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love!

Henry David Thoreau
Nothing is cheap and course, neither dew-drops nor snow-flakes.

Henry David Thoreau
The Ethiopian cannot change his skin nor the leopard his spots.

Henry David Thoreau
I have found that hollow, which even I had relied on for solid.

Henry David Thoreau
One is wise to cultivate the tree that bears fruit in our soul.

Henry David Thoreau
I see less difference between a city and a swamp than formerly.

Henry David Thoreau
If you would get exercise, go in search of the springs of life.

Henry David Thoreau
You must have a genius for charity as well as for anything else.

Henry David Thoreau