Henry David Thoreau Quotes

American - Author | July 12, 1817 - May 6, 1862

I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark.

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The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.

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I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.

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The bluebird carries the sky on his back.

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Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.

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The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.

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The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

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Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.

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It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

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In wildness is the preservation of the world.

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Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

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We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New, but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough.

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