Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau

"Things do not change we change."
316 Quotes
"Things do not change we change."
Henry David Thoreau
"If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see."
Henry David Thoreau
"While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings."
Henry David Thoreau
"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation."
Henry David Thoreau
"Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it."
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
"The heart is forever inexperienced."
Henry David Thoreau
"To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts."
Henry David Thoreau
"The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it."
Henry David Thoreau
"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
"All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man."
Henry David Thoreau
"It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things."
Henry David Thoreau
"Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without."
Henry David Thoreau
"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see."
Henry David Thoreau
"To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle."
Henry David Thoreau
"What is called genius is the abundance of life and health."
Henry David Thoreau
"Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh."
Henry David Thoreau
"The language of friendship is not words but meanings."
Henry David Thoreau
"The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend."
Henry David Thoreau
"I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society."
Henry David Thoreau
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