Henry David Thoreau Quotes

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.
Henry David Thoreau

Lost, Understand, Until

An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
Henry David Thoreau

Morning, Whole, Blessing

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.
Henry David Thoreau

If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
Henry David Thoreau

Find, Enough, Quiet

In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.
Henry David Thoreau

Human, Silence, Words

There is no remedy for love but to love more.
Henry David Thoreau

Dreams are the touchstones of our character.
Henry David Thoreau

Dreams, Character

Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.
Henry David Thoreau

Good, Simply, Aim

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
Henry David Thoreau

Work, Love, Money

Be not simply good - be good for something.
Henry David Thoreau

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
Henry David Thoreau

Alone, Rich, Number

Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.
Henry David Thoreau

Sad, Live, Regret

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
Henry David Thoreau

True, Liberty, Foundation

I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
Henry David Thoreau

Alone, Love, Solitude

I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thoreau

Learning, Life, Success

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.
Henry David Thoreau

Society, Love, Time

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.
Henry David Thoreau

Music, Fear, Times

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

Rather, Sit, Crowded

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?
Henry David Thoreau

Great, Through, Eyes

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
Henry David Thoreau

Religion, Heaven, Feet

It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
Henry David Thoreau

Wisdom, Desperate

That government is best which governs least.
Henry David Thoreau

Government, Best, Governs

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.
Henry David Thoreau

Life, Good, Yourself

Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.
Henry David Thoreau

Love, Bone, Bury

Do not worry if you have built your castles in the air. They are where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
Henry David Thoreau

Put, Worry, Air

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: July 12, 1817

Died: May 6, 1862

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