Author Topic: ~ Henry David Thoreau Quotes ~ (Read 9953 times)

MysteRy · « **Reply #75 on:** October 01, 2014, 10:31:41 AM »

I have received no more than one or two letters in my life that were worth the postage.

MysteRy · « **Reply #76 on:** October 01, 2014, 10:32:10 AM »

If we will be quiet and ready enough we shall find compensation in every disappointment.

MysteRy · « **Reply #77 on:** October 01, 2014, 10:32:38 AM »

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

MysteRy · « **Reply #78 on:** October 01, 2014, 10:33:06 AM »

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the roots.

MysteRy · « **Reply #79 on:** October 01, 2014, 10:33:37 AM »

You cannot receive a shock unless you have an electric affinity for that which shocks you.

MysteRy · « **Reply #80 on:** October 01, 2014, 10:34:21 AM »

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

MysteRy · « **Reply #81 on:** October 01, 2014, 10:34:48 AM »

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly the true place for a just man is also a prison.

MysteRy · « **Reply #82 on:** October 01, 2014, 10:35:19 AM »

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal and then leap in the dark to our success.

MysteRy · « **Reply #83 on:** October 01, 2014, 10:35:47 AM »

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

MysteRy · « **Reply #84 on:** October 01, 2014, 10:36:42 AM »

I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than to be crowded on a velvet cushion.

MysteRy · « **Reply #85 on:** October 01, 2014, 10:37:10 AM »

Events circumstances etc. have their origin in ourselves. They spring from seeds which we have sown.

MysteRy · « **Reply #86 on:** October 01, 2014, 10:37:41 AM »

To know that we know what we know and that we do not know what we do not know that is true knowledge.

MysteRy · « **Reply #87 on:** October 01, 2014, 10:38:14 AM »

For many years I was self-appointed inspector of snowstorms and rain-storms and did my duty faithfully.

MysteRy · « **Reply #88 on:** October 01, 2014, 10:38:42 AM »

What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.

MysteRy · « **Reply #89 on:** October 01, 2014, 10:39:10 AM »

What recommends commerce to me is its enterprise and bravery. It does not clasp its hands and pray to Jupiter.

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