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Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Henry David Thoreau

Only that day dawns to which we are awake.

Henry David Thoreau

It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Henry David Thoreau

We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New, but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough.

Henry David Thoreau

I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.

Henry David Thoreau

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Henry David Thoreau

Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.

Henry David Thoreau

They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.

Henry David Thoreau

If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.

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The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

Henry David Thoreau

'Tis healthy to be sick sometimes.

Henry David Thoreau

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.

Henry David Thoreau

I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live and could not spare any more time for that one.

Henry David Thoreau

Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

Henry David Thoreau

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

Henry David Thoreau

Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have left an indelible impression, and we are ever and anon reminded of them.

Henry David Thoreau

I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.

Henry David Thoreau

I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls.

Henry David Thoreau

That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Henry David Thoreau

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

Henry David Thoreau

We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

Henry David Thoreau

Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men.

Henry David Thoreau

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.

Henry David Thoreau

Every people have gods to suit their circumstances.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Henry David Thoreau

Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Henry David Thoreau

The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.

Henry David Thoreau

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

Henry David Thoreau

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.

Henry David Thoreau

Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.

Henry David Thoreau

God reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to us.

Henry David Thoreau

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.

Henry David Thoreau