Author Topic: ~ Henry David Thoreau Quotes ~ (Read 9926 times)

MysteRy · « **Reply #90 on:** October 01, 2014, 10:39:37 AM »

How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends that we may go and meet their ideal cousins.

MysteRy · « **Reply #91 on:** October 01, 2014, 10:40:08 AM »

Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.

MysteRy · « **Reply #92 on:** October 01, 2014, 10:40:38 AM »

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.

MysteRy · « **Reply #93 on:** October 01, 2014, 10:41:06 AM »

Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies and not be the biggest pygmy that he can?

MysteRy · « **Reply #94 on:** October 01, 2014, 10:41:48 AM »

If I knew ... that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good I should run for my life.

MysteRy · « **Reply #95 on:** October 01, 2014, 10:42:16 AM »

Colour which is the poet's wealth is so expensive that most take to mere outline sketches and become men of science.

MysteRy · « **Reply #96 on:** October 01, 2014, 10:42:46 AM »

To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts; but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates.

MysteRy · « **Reply #97 on:** October 01, 2014, 10:43:14 AM »

As for style of writing if one has anything to say it drops from him simply and directly as a stone falls to the ground.

MysteRy · « **Reply #98 on:** October 01, 2014, 10:43:41 AM »

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.

MysteRy · « **Reply #99 on:** October 01, 2014, 10:44:13 AM »

Nature even when she is scant and thin outwardly satisfies us still by the assurance of a certain generosity at the roots.

MysteRy · « **Reply #100 on:** October 01, 2014, 10:44:55 AM »

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

MysteRy · « **Reply #101 on:** October 01, 2014, 10:45:25 AM »

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.

MysteRy · « **Reply #102 on:** October 01, 2014, 10:45:52 AM »

I think that there is nothing not even crime more opposed to poetry to philosophy ay to life itself than this incessant business.

MysteRy · « **Reply #103 on:** October 01, 2014, 10:46:57 AM »

In the long run men hit only what they aim at. Therefore though they should fall immediately they had better aim at something high.

MysteRy · « **Reply #104 on:** October 01, 2014, 10:47:28 AM »

Simplicity simplicity simplicity! I say let your affairs be as two or three and not a hundred or a thousand. ... Simplify simplify.

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