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Read not the Times, read the Eternities.

Read not the Times, read the Eternities.

Henry David Thoreau
Eternity
Henry David Thoreau (1992). “The Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.86, Rowman & Littlefield

Truth strikes us from behind and in the dark, as well as from before and in broad daylight.

Henry David Thoreau
Dark, Daylight, Broads
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1933, Delphi Classics

My enemies are worms, cool days, and most of all woodchucks.

Henry David Thoreau
Enemy, Worms, Woodchucks
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.94, Simon and Schuster

Let us settle ourselves, and work and wedge our feet downwards through the mud and slush of opinion and tradition, and pride and prejudice, appearance and delusion, through the alluvium which covers the globe, through poetry and philosophy and religion, through church and state, through Paris and London, through New York and Boston and Concord, till we come to a hard bottom that rocks in place which we can call reality and say, "This is and no mistake.

Henry David Thoreau
New York, Philosophy, Mistake

The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.

Henry David Thoreau
Animal, Bees And Honey, Sunbeams

Nature is doing her best each moment to make us well. She exists for no other end. Do not resist. With the least inclination to be well, we should not be sick.

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Inspirational, Motivational, Suicide
Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.119, Courier Corporation

You know about a person who deeply interests you more than you can be told. A look, a gesture, an act, which to everybody else is insignificant tells you more about that one than words can.

Henry David Thoreau
Looks, Gestures, Interest
Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.10, Heron Dance Press

It is strange to talk of miracles, revelations, inspiration, and the like, as things past, while love remains.

Henry David Thoreau
Love, Inspiration, Past
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1143, Delphi Classics

We discover a new world every time we see the earth again after it has been covered for a season with snow.

Henry David Thoreau
Time, Snow, World
Henry David Thoreau, Bob Blaisdell (2011). “Thoreau: A Book of Quotations”, p.44, Courier Corporation

We are ever dying to one world and being born into another.

Henry David Thoreau
Death, Dying, World
Henry David Thoreau (1960). “H. D. Thoreau, a Writer's Journal”, p.20, Courier Corporation

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

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Witty, Travel, Work
Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Walden”, p.52, Xist Publishing

If misery loves company, misery has company enough.

Henry David Thoreau
Love, Sad, Disease
Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.56, Courier Corporation

To be admitted to Nature's hearth costs nothing. None is excluded, but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain.

Henry David Thoreau
Nature, Cost, Curtains
Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.208, Jazzybee Verlag

Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.

Henry David Thoreau
Valentines Day, Night, Literature
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1258, Delphi Classics

f the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government, let it go, let it go; perchance it will wear smooth - certainly the machine will wear out... but if it is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then I say, break the law. Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the machine. What I have to do is to see, at any rate, that I do not lend myself to the wrong which I condemn.

Henry David Thoreau
Government, Law, Let It Go
"Civil Disobedience". Book by Henry David Thoreau, 1849.

This whole earth which we inhabit is but a point in space. How far apart, think you, dwell the most distant inhabitants of yonder star, the breadth of whose disk cannot be appreciated by our instruments?

Henry David Thoreau
Stars, Thinking, Space
Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.226, Penguin

I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.

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Money, Business, Philosophy
Henry David Thoreau, David Gross (2007). “The Price of Freedom: Political Philosophy from Thoreau's Journals”, p.98, David M Gross

If a person lost would conclude that after all he is not lost, he is not beside himself, but standing in his own old shoes on thevery spot where he is, and that for the time being he will live there; but the places that have known him, they are lost,--how much anxiety and danger would vanish.

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Shoes, Optimism, Anxiety
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.148, Courier Corporation

He listens equally to the prayers of the believer and the unbeliever.

Henry David Thoreau
Spiritual, Prayer, Believer
Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.29, Courier Corporation

The hero is commonly the simplest and obscurest of men.

Henry David Thoreau
Hero, Men, Firefighter
Henry David Thoreau, Robert Lawrence France, Thoreau Society (2001). “Thoreau on Water: Reflecting Heaven”, p.16, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Cultivate the habit of early rising. It is unwise to keep the head long on a level with the feet.

Henry David Thoreau
Feet, Goal, Long
Henry David Thoreau, Franklin Benjamin Sanborn, Bradford Torrey (1906). “Journal”

Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg, by the side of which more will be laid.

Henry David Thoreau
Knowledge, Thinking, Eggs
Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.73, Courier Corporation

The fate of the country does not depend on how you vote at the polls - the worst man is as strong as the best at that game; it does not depend on what kind of paper you drop into the ballot-box once a year, but on what kind of man you drop from your chamber into the street every morning.

Henry David Thoreau
Country, Strong, Morning
Henry David Thoreau (2000). “Walden and Other Writings: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.718, Modern Library

The heart is forever inexperienced.

Henry David Thoreau
Heart, Forever, Inexperience
Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.10, Heron Dance Press

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.

Henry David Thoreau
Wise, Reading, Book
Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.69, Graphic Arts Books

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