Henry David Thoreau Short Quotes

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A man may stand there [Cape Cod] and put all America behind him.

Henry David Thoreau
The world is a strange place for a playhouse to stand within it.

Henry David Thoreau
We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.

Henry David Thoreau
What have I to do with plows? I cut another furrow than you see.

Henry David Thoreau
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

Henry David Thoreau
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.

Henry David Thoreau
You fail in your thoughts, or you prevail in your thoughts only.

Henry David Thoreau
I have lately got back to that glorious society called Solitude.

Henry David Thoreau
There are nowadays professors of philosophy, but not philosophers

Henry David Thoreau
The lover wants no partiality. He says, Be so kind as to be just.

Henry David Thoreau
It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.

Henry David Thoreau
He who cuts down woods beyond a certain limit exterminates birds.

Henry David Thoreau
He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate.

Henry David Thoreau
As for doing good, that is one of the professions which are full.

Henry David Thoreau
It requires a direct dispensation from Heaven to become a walker.

Henry David Thoreau
Our manners have been corrupted by communication with the saints.

Henry David Thoreau
The laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day.

Henry David Thoreau
The whole civilized country is to some extent turned into a city.

Henry David Thoreau
Morning glory is the best name, it always refreshes me to see it.

Henry David Thoreau
Those whom we can love, we can hate; to others we are indifferent.

Henry David Thoreau
.. I was rich, if not in money, in sunny hours and summer days....

Henry David Thoreau
Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

Henry David Thoreau
I feel as if my life had grown more outward when I can express it.

Henry David Thoreau
Scholars are wont to sell their birthright for a mess of learning.

Henry David Thoreau
Many men walk by day; few walk by night. It is a different season.

Henry David Thoreau