Henry David Thoreau Spiritual Quotes — Page 13

Writer, Philosopher

Spiritual

“It seems as if the more youthful and impressible streams can hardly resist the numerous invitations and temptations to leave theirnative beds and run down their neighbors' channels.”

Running Rivers Temptation

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Henry David Thoreau

Writer, Philosopher

Spiritual

“I have heard of many going astray even in the village streets, when the darkness was so thick you could cut it with a knife, as the saying is...”

Cutting Crazy Knives

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Spiritual

“We perceive and are affected by changes too subtle to be described.”

Inspirational Change

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Spiritual

“But perhaps a man is not required to bury himself.”

Men Life

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Spiritual

“How important is a constant intercourse with nature and the contemplation of natural phenomena to the preservation of moral and intellectual health!”

Important Nature Intellectual

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“We saw one school-house in our walk, and listened to the sounds which issued from it; but it appeared like a place where the process, not of enlightening, but of obfuscating the mind was going on, and the pupils received only so much light as could penetrate the shadow of the Catholic church.”

School Light Education

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Spiritual

“To him whom contemplates a trait of natural beauty, no harm nor despair can come. The doctrines of despair, spiritual or political servitude, were never taught by those who shared the serenity of Nature. For each phase of Nature, though not invisible, is yet not too distinct or obtrusive. It is there to be found when we look for it, but not too demanding of our attention.”

Spiritual Nature Serenity

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Spiritual

“Blessed are they who never read a newspaper, for they shall see Nature, and through her, God.”

Blessed Environmental Newspapers

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Spiritual

“I have seen some whose consciences, owing undoubtedly to former indulgence, had grown to be as irritable as spoilt children, and at length gave them no peace. They did not know when to swallow their cud, and their lives of course yielded no milk.”

Children Anger Guilt

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“A man might well pray that he may not taboo or curse any portion of nature by being buried in it.”

Men May Might

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“There are various tough problems yet to solve, and we must shift to live, betwixt spirit and matter, such a human life as we can.”

Matter Spirit Tough

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“I, who cannot stay in my chamber for a single day without acquiring some rust,... confess that I am astonished at the power of endurance, to say nothing of the moral insensibility, of my neighbors who confine themselves to shops and offices the whole day for weeks and months, aye, and years almost together. I know not what manner of stuff they are of,--sitting there now at three o'clock in the afternoon, as if it were three o'clock in the morning.”

Years Morning Work

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Henry David Thoreau — Spiritual Quotes

Henry David Thoreau Quotes