Henry David Thoreau Quotes

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Henry David Thoreau Quotes

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Henry David Thoreau

Writer, Philosopher

Grateful

“Each new year is a surprise to us. We find that we had virtually forgotten the note of each bird, and when we hear it again, it is remembered like a dream, reminding us of a previous state of existence. How happens it that the associations it awakens are always pleasing, never saddening, reminiscences of our sanest hours. The voice of nature is always encouraging.”

Dream Nature New Year

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Henry David Thoreau

Writer, Philosopher

Philosophical

“Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships, after a style purely his own, nor can he get off by hammering marble instead. We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones. Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.”

Men Blood Style

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Peaceful

“In a world of peace and love, music would be the universal language.”

Love Would Be Marriage

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Lonely

“I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.”

Two Home

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Love

“Give me a Wildness whose glance no civilization can endure.”

Giving Civilization

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Philosophical

“The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.”

Life Running Time

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Philosophical

“Why level downward to our dullest perception always, and praise that as common sense? The commonest sense is the sense of men asleep, which they express by snoring.”

Men Perception Common Sense

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Philosophical

“Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it; but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains.”

Time Fishing Eternity Of Life

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Melancholic

“Decay and disease are often beautiful, like the pearly tear of the shellfish and the hectic glow of consumption.”

Beautiful Tears Disease

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Angry

“Talk about slavery! It is not the peculiar institution of the South. It exists wherever men are bought and sold, wherever a man allows himself to be made a mere thing or a tool, and surrenders his inalienable rights of reason and conscience. Indeed, this slavery is more complete than that which enslaves the body alone.”

Men Rights Judging

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Love

“It often happens that a man develops a deeper love and friendship with his pet cat or dog than he does with most of the other humans in his life.”

Men Dog Cat

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Philosophical

“I should say that the useful results of science had accumulated, but that there had been no accumulation of knowledge, strictly speaking, for posterity; for knowledge is to be acquired only by a corresponding experience. How can we know what we are told merely? Each man can interpret another's experience only by his own.”

Men Science Knowledge

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