Quotes By Henry David Thoreau
All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
Dreams are the touchstones of our character.
Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.
Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.
If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.
It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
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