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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
,
Walden
“The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise.”
Henry David Thoreau
,
Walden
“That government is best which governs least”
Henry David Thoreau
,
Civil Disobedience
“Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.”
Henry David Thoreau
,
Walden
“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.”
Henry David Thoreau
,
Walden
“If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.”
Henry David Thoreau
,
Civil Disobedience
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.”
Henry David Thoreau
,
Walden
“Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.”
Henry David Thoreau
,
Walden
“the man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready”
Henry David Thoreau
,
Walden
“I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion.”
Henry David Thoreau
,
Walden
“Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one already.”
Henry David Thoreau
,
Civil Disobedience
“A lake is the landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.”
Henry David Thoreau
,
Walden
“Things do not change; we change.”
Henry David Thoreau
,
Walden
“Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.”
Henry David Thoreau
,
Walden
“Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgress them at once?”
Henry David Thoreau
,
Civil Disobedience
“Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.”
Henry David Thoreau
,
Civil Disobedience
“I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well. Unfortunately, I am confined to this theme by the narrowness of my experience.”
Henry David Thoreau
,
Walden
“I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.”
Henry David Thoreau
,
Civil Disobedience
“As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.”
Henry David Thoreau
,
Walden
“I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.”
Henry David Thoreau
,
Walden
“All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.”
Henry David Thoreau
,
Walden
“It is never too late to give up our prejudices.”
Henry David Thoreau
,
Walden
“beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.”
Henry David Thoreau
,
Walden
“We should be men first, and subjects afterward.”
Henry David Thoreau
,
Civil Disobedience
“To be awake is to be alive.”
Henry David Thoreau
,
Walden
“What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.”
Henry David Thoreau
,
Walden
“A written word is the choicest of relics. It is something at once more intimate with us and more universal than any other work of art.”
Henry David Thoreau
,
Walden
“There are nine hundred and ninety-nine patrons of virtue to one virtuous man.”
Henry David Thoreau
,
Civil Disobedience
“A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority; it is not even a minority then; but it is irresistible when it clogs by its whole weight.”
Henry David Thoreau
,
Civil Disobedience
“The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.”
Henry David Thoreau
,
Civil Disobedience
“Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb nail.”
Henry David Thoreau
,
Walden
“How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book!”
Henry David Thoreau
,
Walden
“The government itself, which is only the mode which the people have chosen to execute their will, is equally liable to be abused and perverted before the people can act through it.”
Henry David Thoreau
,
Civil Disobedience
“Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.”
Henry David Thoreau
,
Walden
“Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.”
Henry David Thoreau
,
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
“Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.”
Henry David Thoreau
,
Civil Disobedience
“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
,
Civil Disobedience
“For it matters not how small the beginning may seem to be: what is once well done is done forever.”
Henry David Thoreau
,
Civil Disobedience
“Our life is frittered away by detail.”
Henry David Thoreau
,
Walden
“I am convinced, that if all men were to live as simply as I then did, thieving and robbery would be unknown. These take place only in communities where some have got more than is sufficient while others have not enough.”
Henry David Thoreau
,
Walden
“True, 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.”
Henry David Thoreau
,
Walden
“Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.”
Henry David Thoreau
,
Walden
“He who distinguishes the true savor of his food can never be a glutton; he who does not cannot be otherwise.”
Henry David Thoreau
,
Walden
“A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener. So our prospects brighten on the influx of better thoughts.”
Henry David Thoreau
,
Walden
“The progress from an absolute to a limited monarchy, from a limited monarchy to a democracy, is a progress toward a true respect for the individual.”
Henry David Thoreau
,
Civil Disobedience
“Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect, and that will be one step toward obtaining it.”
Henry David Thoreau
,
Civil Disobedience
“It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.”
Henry David Thoreau
,
Walden
“This world is but canvas to our imaginations.”
Henry David Thoreau
,
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
“There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root”
Henry David Thoreau
,
Walden
“Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.”
Henry David Thoreau
,
Walden
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