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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

Henry David Thoreau
Inspirational, Life, Birthday
Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Thoreau on Nature: Sage Words on Finding Harmony with the Natural World”, p.40, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

If you see a man approaching you with the obvious intent of doing you good, you should run for your life.

Henry David Thoreau
Running, Men, Doing You

There will never be a really free and enlightened state until the state comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived.

Henry David Thoreau
Independent, Politics, Enlightened
Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.211, Graphic Arts Books

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

Henry David Thoreau
Motivational, Friendship, Nature
Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Thoreau on Nature: Sage Words on Finding Harmony with the Natural World”, p.15, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

When any real progress is made, we unlearned and learn anew what we thought we knew before.

Henry David Thoreau
Real, Progress, Made
Henry David Thoreau (1999). “Uncommon Learning: Thoreau on Education”, p.41, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Talk about slavery! It is not the peculiar institution of the South. It exists wherever men are bought and sold, wherever a man allows himself to be made a mere thing or a tool, and surrenders his inalienable rights of reason and conscience. Indeed, this slavery is more complete than that which enslaves the body alone.

Henry David Thoreau
Men, Rights, Judging
"Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau".

I love Nature partly because she is not man, but a retreat from him. None of his institutions control or pervade her. There a different kind of right prevails. In her midst I can be glad with an entire gladness. If this world were all man, I could not stretch myself, I should lose all hope. He is constraint, she is freedom to me. He makes me wish for another world. She makes me content with this.

Henry David Thoreau
Nature, Men, Wish
Henry David Thoreau, David Gross (2007). “The Price of Freedom: Political Philosophy from Thoreau's Journals”, p.104, David M Gross

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Henry David Thoreau
Success, Witty, Perseverance

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

Henry David Thoreau
Love, Life, Break Up
Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.12, Yale University Press

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Henry David Thoreau
Love, Inspirational, Life
Walden ch. 18 (1854)

I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees.

Henry David Thoreau
Tree, Woods, Walk In The Woods

Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify.

Henry David Thoreau
Life, Business, Simple
Walden ch. 2 (1854)

I make myself rich by making my wants few.

Henry David Thoreau
Want, Rich, Wise Money

The secret of achievement is to hold a picture of a successful outcome in mind.

Henry David Thoreau
Inspirational, Success, Achievement

Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live.

Henry David Thoreau
Inspirational, Motivational, Dream

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

Henry David Thoreau
Inspirational, Life, Inspiring
Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.208, Xist Publishing

All good things are wild and free.

Henry David Thoreau
I Hate You, Independence, Liberty
Henry David Thoreau (2010). “Wild Apples and Other Natural History Essays”, p.82, University of Georgia Press

We can never have enough of nature. We must be refreshed by the sight of inexhaustible vigor, vast and titanic features, the sea-coast with its wrecks, the wilderness with its living and its decaying trees, the thunder-cloud, and the rain.

Henry David Thoreau
Rain, Clouds, Sight
Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.205, Cosimo, Inc.

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this, or the like of this. I wish to live ever as to derive my satisfactions and inspirations from the commonest events, everyday phenomena, so that what my senses hourly perceive, my daily walk, the conversation of my neighbors, may inspire me, and I may dream of no heaven but that which lies about me.

Henry David Thoreau
Dream, Lying, Inspiration

What would human life be without forests, those natural cities?

Henry David Thoreau
Nature, Cities, Climate
Henry David Thoreau (2011). “The Natural History Essays”, p.57, Gibbs Smith

Simplicity is the peak of civilization.

Henry David Thoreau
Civilization, Simplicity

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

Henry David Thoreau
Love, Life, Dream
Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.170, Yale University Press

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

Henry David Thoreau
Inspirational, Uplifting, Sports

When we bring what is within out into the world, miracles happen.

Henry David Thoreau
Miracle, World, Happens

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau
Inspirational, Life, Change
Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.212, Cosimo, Inc.

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