Henry David Thoreau Spiritual Quotes — Page 10

Writer, Philosopher

Spiritual

“Most men, even in this comparatively free country, through mere ignorance and mistake, are so occupied with the factitious cares and superfluously coarse labors of life that its finer fruits cannot be plucked by them.”

Country Mistake Ignorance

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Henry David Thoreau

Writer, Philosopher

Spiritual

“A man's real faith is never contained in his creed, nor is his creed an article of his faith. The last is never adopted. This it is that permits him to smile ever, and to live even as bravely as he does. And yet he clings anxiously to his creed, as to a straw, thinking that that does him good service because his sheet anchor does not drag.”

Men Real Faith

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Spiritual

“There are various, nay, incredible faiths; why should we be alarmed at any of them? What man believes, God believes.”

Men Believe Religion

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Spiritual

“I trust that some may be as near and dear to Buddha, or Christ, or Swedenborg, who are without the pale of their churches.”

May Church Christ

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Spiritual

“God is alone,-but the devil, he is far from being alone; he sees a great deal of company; he is legion.”

Devil Deals Legion

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Spiritual

“The order of things should be reversed; the seventh day should be the day of toil...and the other six his Sabbath of the affections and the soul, in which to range this widerspread garden, and drink in the soft influences and sublime revelations of Nature.”

Soul Order Garden

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Spiritual

“I could not help being struck with the foolishness of that institution which treated me as if I were mere flesh and blood and bones, to be locked up.”

Helping Blood Flesh

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Spiritual

“Music is the sound of the universal laws promulgated. It is the only assured tone. There are in it such strains as far surpass anyman's faith in the loftiness of his destiny. Things are to be learned which it will be worth the while to learn.”

Music Destiny Knowledge

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Spiritual

“One should be always on the trail of one's own deepest nature. For it is the fearless living out of your own essential nature that connects you to the Divine.”

Essentials Divine Fearless

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Spiritual

“Was awakened in the night to a strain of music dying away, - passing travellers singing. My being was so expanded and infinitely and divinely related for a brief season that I saw how unexhausted, how almost wholly unimproved, was man's capacity for a divine life. When I remembered what a narrow and finite life I should anon awake to!”

Men Night Music

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Spiritual

“When it was proposed to me to go abroad, rub oft some rust, and better my condition in a worldly sense, I fear lest my life will lose some of its homeliness. If these fields and streams and woods, the phenomena of nature here, and the simple occupations of the inhabitants should cease to interest and inspire me, no culture or wealth would atone for the loss.”

Home Loss Travel

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Spiritual

“You must walk sometimes perfectly free, not prying or inquisitive, not bent on seeing things. Throw away a whole day for a single expansion, a single inspiration of air. You must walk so gently as to hear the finest sounds, the faculties being in repose. Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.”

Eye Inspiration Air

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Henry David Thoreau — Spiritual Quotes

Henry David Thoreau Quotes