Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau

"Every generation laughs at the old fashions but religiously follows the new."
316 Quotes
"Every generation laughs at the old fashions but religiously follows the new."
Henry David Thoreau
"Nothing is so much to be feared as fear."
Henry David Thoreau
"Friends will not only live in harmony but in melody."
Henry David Thoreau
"We must have infinite faith in each other."
Henry David Thoreau
"Some circumstantial evidence is very strong as when you find a trout in the milk."
Henry David Thoreau
"Experience is in the fingers and the head. The heart is inexperienced."
Henry David Thoreau
"That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest."
Henry David Thoreau
"Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind."
Henry David Thoreau
"Water is the only drink for a wise man."
Henry David Thoreau
"I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than to be crowded on a velvet cushion."
Henry David Thoreau
"Where there is a brave man in the thickest of the fight there is the post of honor."
Henry David Thoreau
"However mean your life is meet it and live it do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are."
Henry David Thoreau
"Compliments and flattery oftenest excite my contempt by the pretension they imply for who is he that assumes to flatter me? To compliment often implies an assumption of superiority in the complimenter. It is in fact a subtle detraction."
Henry David Thoreau
"Things do not change we change."
Henry David Thoreau
"What recommends commerce to me is its enterprise and bravery. It does not clasp its hands and pray to Jupiter."
Henry David Thoreau
"I think that there is nothing not even crime more opposed to poetry to philosophy ay to life itself than this incessant business."
Henry David Thoreau
"When I hear music I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times and to the latest."
Henry David Thoreau
"Simplicity simplicity simplicity. I say let your affairs be as two or three and not a hundred or a thousand instead of a million count half a dozen and keep your accounts on your thumbnail."
Henry David Thoreau
"Whate'er we leave to God God does and blesses us."
Henry David Thoreau
"When a dog runs at you whistle for him."
Henry David Thoreau
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