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henry david thoreau
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I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.
henry david thoreau
I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.
henry david thoreau
I cannot read a single word of the Hindoos without being elevated.
henry david thoreau
I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.
henry david thoreau
I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
henry david thoreau
I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls.
henry david thoreau
I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.
henry david thoreau
I have been as sincere a worshipper of Aurora as the Greeks.
henry david thoreau
I have found that hollow, which even I had relied on for solid.
henry david thoreau
I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another.
henry david thoreau
I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while.
henry david thoreau
I have the habit of attention to such excess, that my senses get no rest - but suffer from a constant strain.
henry david thoreau
I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.
henry david thoreau
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
henry david thoreau
I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live and could not spare any more time for that one.
henry david thoreau
I often visited a particular plant four or five miles distant, half a dozen times within a fortnight, that I might know exactly when it opened.
henry david thoreau
I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark.
henry david thoreau
I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
henry david thoreau
I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.
henry david thoreau
I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartanlike as to put to rout all that was not life.
henry david thoreau
