Henry David Thoreau Quotes & Quotations

Henry David Thoreau Quotes

» It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

» 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.

» Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

» If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.

» The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.

» The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

» Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.

» Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.

» The bluebird carries the sky on his back.

» Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.

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