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Inspirational Quotes by Henry David Thoreau

Index_card_top “Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.”
 
Henry David Thoreau  (1817-1862);
Naturalist, Author, Philosopher
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Index_card_top “The language of friendship is not words but meanings.”
 
Henry David Thoreau  (1817-1862);
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Index_card_top “The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?”
 
Henry David Thoreau  (1817-1862);
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Index_card_top “The sacredness, if there is any, is all in yourself and not in the place.”
 
Henry David Thoreau  (1817-1862);
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Index_card_top “I am resolved that I will not through humility become the devil's attorney. I will endeavor to speak a good word for the truth.”
 
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Index_card_top “In short, I am convinced, both by faith and experience, that to maintain one's self on this earth is not a hardship but a pastime, if we will live simply and wisely; as the pursuits of the simpler nations are still the sports of the more artificial. ”
 
Henry David Thoreau  (1817-1862);
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Index_card_top “If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost: that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.”
 
Henry David Thoreau  (1817-1862);
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Index_card_top “Go confidently in the direction of our dreams! Live the life you've imagined.”
 
Henry David Thoreau  (1817-1862);
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Index_card_top “We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being.”
 
Henry David Thoreau  (1817-1862);
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Index_card_top “There never is but one opportunity of a kind.”
 
Henry David Thoreau  (1817-1862);
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Index_card_top “If men could combine thus earnestly, and patiently, and harmoniously to some really worthy end, what might they not accomplish?”
 
Henry David Thoreau  (1817-1862);
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Index_card_top “It is never too late to give up our prejudices.”
 
Henry David Thoreau  (1817-1862);
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Index_card_top “It is worth the while to live respectably unto ourselves. We can possibly get along with a neighbor, even with a bedfellow, whom we respect but very little; but as soon as it comes to this, that we do not respect ourselves, then we do not get along at all...”
 
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Index_card_top “My actual life is a fact, in view of which I have no occasion to congratulate myself; but for my faith and aspiration I have respect. It is from these that I speak.”
 
Henry David Thoreau  (1817-1862);
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Index_card_top “The world rests on principles.”
 
Henry David Thoreau  (1817-1862);
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Index_card_top “It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.”
 
Henry David Thoreau  (1817-1862);
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Index_card_top “I think that we may safely trust a good deal more than we do. We may waive just so much care of ourselves as we honestly bestow elsewhere. Nature is as well adapted to our weakness as to our strength.”
 
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Index_card_top “We belong to the community. It is not the tailor alone who is the ninth part of a man; it is as much the preacher, and the merchant, and the farmer. Where is this division of labor to end? and what object does it finally serve? No doubt another may also think for me; but it is not therefore desirable that he should do so to the exclusion of my thinking for myself.”
 
Henry David Thoreau  (1817-1862);
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Index_card_top “Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame. ”
 
Henry David Thoreau  (1817-1862);
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Index_card_top This Quote Was Our Daily Quote On: 08/12/09
“The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.”
 
Henry David Thoreau  (1817-1862);
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Index_card_top This Quote Was Our Daily Quote On: 09/30/09
“The world is but a canvas to the imagination.”
 
Henry David Thoreau  (1817-1862);
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Index_card_top This Quote Was Our Daily Quote On: 09/21/10
“If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
 
Henry David Thoreau  (1817-1862);
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“If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. ”
 
Henry David Thoreau  (1817-1862);
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