Henry David Thoreau Quotes & Quotations

Henry David Thoreau Quotes

» He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.

» I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

» The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?

» The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.

» The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

» Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.

» How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?

» What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.

» Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.

» I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

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