Henry David Thoreau Quotes

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Henry David Thoreau Quotes

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Henry David Thoreau

Writer, Philosopher

Sad

“Only nature has a right to grieve perpetually, for she only is innocent. Soon the ice will melt, and the blackbirds sing along the river which he frequented, as pleasantly as ever. The same everlasting serenity will appear in this face of God, and we will not be sorrowful, if he is not.”

Love Nature Goodbye

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Henry David Thoreau

Writer, Philosopher

Adventurous

“We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character.”

Home Adventure Travel

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Grateful

“What right have I to grieve, who have not ceased to wonder?”

Grief Grieving

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Philosophical

“There are more consequences to a shipwreck than the underwriters notice.”

Disaster Consequence

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Angry

“Nothing more strikingly betrays the credulity of mankind than medicine. Quackery is a thing universal, and universally successful. In this case it becomes literally true that no imposition is too great for the credulity of men.”

Men Successful Medicine

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Philosophical

“Men talk glibly enough about moonshine, as if they knew its qualities very well, and despised them; as owls might talk of sunshine,--none of your sunshine!--but this word commonly means merely something which they do not understand,--which they are abed and asleep to, however much it may be worth their while to be up and awake to it.”

Mean Moon Sunshine

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Grateful

“I make myself rich by making my wants few.”

Want Rich

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Philosophical

“The meeting of two eternities, the past and future....is precisely the present moment.”

Two Past

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Philosophical

“A man receives only what he is ready to receive, whether physically or intellectually or morally, as animals conceive at certain seasons their kind only. We hear and apprehend only what we already half know.”

Men Animal Half

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Rebellious

“If the tax-gatherer, or any other public officer, asks me, as one has done, "But what shall I do?" my answer is, "If you really wish to do anything, resign your office." When the subject has refused allegiance, and the officer has resigned his office, then the revolution is accomplished.”

Done Wish Office

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Lonely

“A bore is someone who takes away my solitude and doesn't give me companionship in return.”

Giving Return

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Angry

“Politics is the gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel.”

Politics Society

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