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Quotes By Henry David Thoreau

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the door.

Henry David Thoreau

Leadership, Life

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

Henry David Thoreau

Friendship, Integrity, Truth, Work

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The universe is wider than our views of it.

Henry David Thoreau

Awareness, Perception

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Every generation laughs at the old fashions but follows religiously the new.

Henry David Thoreau

Society

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You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.

Henry David Thoreau

Action, Life, Time

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Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing it is not fish they are after.

Henry David Thoreau

Nature, Solitude

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Lake Tahoe

Think for yourself, or others will think for you without thinking of you.

Henry David Thoreau

Self, Self-esteem, Thinking

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The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

Henry David Thoreau

Life

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Redwood National Park

I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees.

Henry David Thoreau

Nature

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If the machine of government is of such a nature that requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.

Henry David Thoreau

Justice

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Red Rock Canyon

In wilderness is the preservation of the world.

Henry David Thoreau

Nature, Solitude

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Hana, Hawaii, Maui

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

Henry David Thoreau

Love, Money, Truth

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If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

Henry David Thoreau

Freedom, Liberty

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Glacier National Park

We need the tonic of wilderness . . . We can never have enough of nature.

Henry David Thoreau

Nature

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Hana, Hawaii, Maui

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

Henry David Thoreau

Attitude, Gratitude

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Glacier National Park

What is called eloquence in the forum is commonly found to be rhetoric in the study.

Henry David Thoreau

Communication

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Yellowstone National Park

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.

Henry David Thoreau

Time

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Zion National Park

To be awake is to be alive.

Henry David Thoreau

Awareness, Life

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Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts, of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.

Henry David Thoreau

Life

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To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live accordingly to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust.

Henry David Thoreau

Trust, Wisdom

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Yellowstone National Park

It is never too late to give up our prejudices.

Henry David Thoreau

Justice

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Glacier National Park

It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

Henry David Thoreau

Wisdom

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Zion National Park

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.

Henry David Thoreau

Fear, Leadership

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Grand Prismatic, Yellowstone National Park

What a man thinks of himself, that is which determines, or rather, indicates, his fate.

Henry David Thoreau

Character, Destiny, Fate, Self-esteem, Thinking

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Hawaii, Maui

Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.

Henry David Thoreau

Character, Dreams

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Hawaii, Maui

I came into this world, not chiefly to make this a good place to live in, but to live in it, be it good or bad.

Henry David Thoreau

Life

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I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward. It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.

Henry David Thoreau

Freedom, Liberty

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Lake Tahoe

What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.

Henry David Thoreau

Genius, Health, Life

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