Henry David Thoreau — Spiritual Quotes

157 quotes · Writer, Philosopher

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Henry David Thoreau Quotes

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Henry David Thoreau

Writer, Philosopher

Spiritual

“Do not seek so anxiously to be developed, to subject yourself to many influences to be played on; it is all dissipation. Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights.”

Light Humility Darkness

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Henry David Thoreau

Writer, Philosopher

Spiritual

“There is always a present and extant life, be it better or worse, which all combine to uphold.”

Literature Life Is

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Spiritual

“I did not know that mankind was suffering for want of gold.”

Want Suffering Gold

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“Heaven is not one of your fertile Ohio bottoms, you may depend on it.”

May Heaven

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“God reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to us.”

Views Literature

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“Everything counts for gain when we are cosmically awake. Nothing counts, unless we are awake. No enjoyments last, no successes satisfy, no gains have meaning unless accomplished in a state of wakefulness.”

Powerful Lasts Gains

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“Fishing has been styled 'a contemplative man's recreation,' ... and science is only a more contemplative man's recreation.”

Men Science Fishing

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“It would seem as if the very language of our parlors would lose all its nerve and degenerate into palaver wholly, our lives pass at such remoteness from its symbols, and its metaphors and tropes are necessarily so far fetched.”

Language Nerves Degenerates

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Spiritual

“It is remarkable that there are few men so well employed, so much to their minds, but that a little money or fame would commonly buy them off from their present pursuit.”

Men Money Independence

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Spiritual

“We 've wholly forgotten how to die. But be sure you do die nevertheless. Do your work, and finish it. If you know how to begin, you will know when to end.”

Ends Forgotten Labor

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Spiritual

“The church is a sort of hospital for men's souls and as full of quackery as the hospital for their bodies.”

Men Soul Church

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Spiritual

“I found in myself, and still find, an instinct toward a higher, or, as it is named, spiritual life, as do most men, and another toward a primitive rank and savage one, and I reverence them both. I love the wild not less than the good.”

Men Love Spiritual

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