Henry David Thoreau Quotes

Henry David Thoreau was one of the great american philosophers. His words have forever changed me, and always urge me to question my intentions and go forward in the direction of my dreams. I hope this collection of Henry David Thoreau quotes will inspire you as the do me! His most famous works were Walden and Civil Disobedience.

"A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars."
Henry David Thoreau

"A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone."
Henry David Thoreau

"A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting."
Henry David Thoreau

"All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning."
Henry David Thoreau

"All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man."
Henry David Thoreau

"As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives."
Henry David Thoreau

"As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution."
Henry David Thoreau

"As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society."
Henry David Thoreau

"As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness."
Henry David Thoreau

"Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something."
Henry David Thoreau

"Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends... Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts."
Henry David Thoreau

"Dreams are the touchstones of our character."
Henry David Thoreau

"Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it alright will rather preserve its life than destroy it."
Henry David Thoreau

"There is always a present and extant life, be it better or worse, which all combine to uphold."
Henry David Thoreau

"It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise."
Henry David Thoreau

"Live the life you've dreamed."
Henry David Thoreau

"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours."
Henry David Thoreau

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