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I was not born to be forced.

I was not born to be forced.

Henry David Thoreau
Born
Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.83, Penguin

We cannot well do without our sins; they are the highway of our virtue.

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War, Sin, Conflict
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Quotable Thoreau: An A to Z Glossary of Inspiring Quotations from Henry David Thoreau”, p.88, BookBaby

Mathematics should be mixed not only with physics but with ethics.

Henry David Thoreau
Ethics, Morality, Physics
Henry David Thoreau (1975). “Early Essays and Miscellanies”, p.362, Princeton University Press

You must not blame me if I do talk to the clouds.

Henry David Thoreau
Clouds, Eccentric, Blame
Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.39, Jazzybee Verlag

It is a great art to saunter !

Henry David Thoreau
Art, Journey, Hiking
Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.27, Yale University Press

Why should I feel lonely? is not our planet in the Milky Way?

Henry David Thoreau
Lonely, Way, Should
Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.208

Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.

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Nature, Travel, Hands
Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.149, Courier Corporation

I learned what it is to live in the open air, and I learned that our lives are domestic in more sense than we think.

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Thinking, Air, Our Lives

Be not merely good. Be good for something.

Henry David Thoreau
Integrity, Good Times, Be Good

It's only by forgetting yourself that you draw near to God.

Henry David Thoreau
God, Forget You, Forget
Henry David Thoreau (1962). “The journal of Henry D. Thoreau”

The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free.

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Freedom, Men, Law

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

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Life, Success, Inspiration
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Quotable Thoreau: An A to Z Glossary of Inspiring Quotations from Henry David Thoreau”, p.93, BookBaby

Some creatures are made to see in the dark.

Henry David Thoreau
Knowledge, Dark, History
Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.110, Xist Publishing

Every man must walk to the beat of his own drummer.

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Men, Drummer, Beats

The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible and indescribable as the tints of morning or evening.

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Happiness, Morning, Evening
Henry David Thoreau, Barry Andrews (2005). “True Harvest: Readings from Henry David Thoreau for Every Day of the Year”, p.129, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

All good things are cheap: all bad are very dear.

Henry David Thoreau
Good Things, Dear
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Quotable Thoreau: An A to Z Glossary of Inspiring Quotations from Henry David Thoreau”, p.24, BookBaby

The pleasures of the intellect are permanent, the pleasures of the heart are transitory.

Henry David Thoreau
Heart, Pleasure, Intellect
Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.126, Yale University Press

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.

Henry David Thoreau
Men, Sky, Earth Day
Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.217, Courier Corporation

And I am sure that I never read any memorable news in a newspaper. If we read of one man robbed, or murdered, or killed by accident, or one house burned, or one vessel wrecked, or one steamboat blown up, or one cow run over on the Western Railroad, or one mad dog killed, or one lot of grasshoppers in the winter, - we need never read of another. One is enough. If you are acquainted with the principle, what do you care for a myriad instances and applications?

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Running, Dog, Memorable
Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Walden”, p.68, Xist Publishing

Heroes are often the most ordinary of men.

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Hero, Men, Ordinary

The bluebird carries the sky on his back.

Henry David Thoreau
Niece, Animal, Sky
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Quotable Thoreau: An A to Z Glossary of Inspiring Quotations from Henry David Thoreau”, p.20, BookBaby

The truth is, there is money buried everywhere, and you have only to go to work to find it.

Henry David Thoreau
Money, Truth Is, Buried
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.582, Simon and Schuster

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
Moving On, Forgiveness, Regret
Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.10, Courier Corporation

Trees indeed have hearts.

Henry David Thoreau
Heart, Tree
Henry David Thoreau (1993). “A Year in Thoreau's Journal: 1851”, p.301, Penguin

All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.

Henry David Thoreau
Wise, Wisdom, Men
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Quotable Thoreau: An A to Z Glossary of Inspiring Quotations from Henry David Thoreau”, p.109, BookBaby

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