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Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Henry David Thoreau

I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

Henry David Thoreau

Live the life you've dreamed.

Henry David Thoreau

The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.

Henry David Thoreau

The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.

Henry David Thoreau

The bluebird carries the sky on his back.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Henry David Thoreau

Simplify, simplify.

Henry David Thoreau

As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.

Henry David Thoreau

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

Henry David Thoreau

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.

Henry David Thoreau

There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted.

Henry David Thoreau

I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.

Henry David Thoreau

It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Henry David Thoreau

Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.

Henry David Thoreau

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

Henry David Thoreau

What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.

Henry David Thoreau

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.

Henry David Thoreau

If misery loves company, misery has company enough.

Henry David Thoreau

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

Henry David Thoreau

Be not simply good - be good for something.

Henry David Thoreau

It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious.

Henry David Thoreau

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.

Henry David Thoreau

It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all.

Henry David Thoreau

We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.

Henry David Thoreau

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

Henry David Thoreau

I have been as sincere a worshipper of Aurora as the Greeks.

Henry David Thoreau

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.

Henry David Thoreau

It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.

Henry David Thoreau

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

Henry David Thoreau

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

Henry David Thoreau