Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau

"The faultfinder will find faults even in paradise."
316 Quotes
"The faultfinder will find faults even in paradise."
Henry David Thoreau
"What a man thinks of himself that is what determines or rather indicates his fate."
Henry David Thoreau
"Colour which is the poet's wealth is so expensive that most take to mere outline sketches and become men of science."
Henry David Thoreau
"Politics is the gizzard of society full of gut and gravel."
Henry David Thoreau
"Do what you love. Know your own bone gnaw at it bury it unearth it and gnaw it still."
Henry David Thoreau
"Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in."
Henry David Thoreau
"Gather ye rose-buds while ye may Old time is still a-flying. And this same flower that smiles today Tomorrow will be dying."
Henry David Thoreau
"As if you could kill time without injuring eternity."
Henry David Thoreau
"Gnaw your own bone gnaw at it bury it unearth it gnaw it still."
Henry David Thoreau
"The eye is the jewel of the body."
Henry David Thoreau
"For many years I was self-appointed inspector of snowstorms and rainstorms and did my duty faithfully though I never received one cent for it."
Henry David Thoreau
"When I would recreate myself I seek the darkest wood the thickest and most interminable and to the citizen most dismal swamp. I enter a swamp as a sacred place - a sanctum sanctorum. There is the strength the marrow of Nature."
Henry David Thoreau
"I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude."
Henry David Thoreau
"I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beech tree or a yellow birch or an old acquaintance among the pines."
Henry David Thoreau
"The bluebird carries the sky on his back."
Henry David Thoreau
"The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time."
Henry David Thoreau
"Only that day dawns to which we are awake."
Henry David Thoreau
"Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul."
Henry David Thoreau
"What is morality but immemorial custom? Conscience is the chief of conservatives."
Henry David Thoreau
"You cannot receive a shock unless you have an electric affinity for that which shocks you."
Henry David Thoreau
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