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If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.

Henry David Thoreau
Believe, Men, Doe
Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.357, Penguin

The broadest and most prevalent error requires the most disinterested virtue to sustain it.

Henry David Thoreau
Mistake, Errors, Virtue
Henry David Thoreau (1942). “Civil Disobedience”, p.8, Hayes Barton Press

Our manners have been corrupted by communication with the saints.

Henry David Thoreau
Communication, Atheism, Saint
Henry David Thoreau (2004). “Walden: 150th Anniversary Illustrated Edition of the American Classic”, p.75, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Nature is an admirable schoolmistress.

Henry David Thoreau
Nature, Admirable
Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1865). “Letters to Various Persons”, p.158

Life in us is like the water in a river.

Henry David Thoreau
Rivers, Water
Henry David Thoreau (1995). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods”, p.215, Courier Corporation

One is wise to cultivate the tree that bears fruit in our soul.

Henry David Thoreau
Wise, Silly, Tree
Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.29, Heron Dance Press

They will wait, well disposed, for others to remedy evil, that they may no longer have have it to regret.

Henry David Thoreau
Regret, Evil, Waiting

What the banker sighs for, the meanest clown may have-leisure and a quiet mind.

Henry David Thoreau
Mind, Bankers, May
Henry David Thoreau, David Gross (2007). “The Price of Freedom: Political Philosophy from Thoreau's Journals”, p.26, David M Gross

The three-o'-clock in the morning courage, which Bonaparte thought was the rarest.

Henry David Thoreau
Courage, Morning, Three
'Walden' (1854) 'Sounds'.

I was daily intoxicated, yet no man could call me intemperate.

Henry David Thoreau
Men, Alcohol, Call Me

I now first began to inhabit my house, I may say, when I began to use it for warmth as well as shelter.

Henry David Thoreau
House, Shelter, May
Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Walden”, p.173, Xist Publishing

We have reason to be grateful for celestial phenomena, for they chiefly answer to the ideal in man.

Henry David Thoreau
Stars, Grateful, Men
Henry David Thoreau (1873). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.412

The nonchalance and dolce-far-niente air of nature and society hint at infinite periods in the progress of mankind.

Henry David Thoreau
Nature, Air, Progress
Henry David Thoreau (1873). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.137

I think the fall from the farmer to the operative as great and memorable as that from the man to the farmer.

Henry David Thoreau
Fall, Memorable, Men
Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.187, Penguin

Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.

Henry David Thoreau
Funny, Life, Death
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.69, Delphi Classics

Live the life you've dreamed.

Henry David Thoreau
Single, Short Life, Live Life

The preachers and lecturers deal with men of straw, as they are men of straw themselves. Why, a free-spoken man, of sound lungs, cannot draw a long breath without causing your rotten institutions to come toppling down by the vacuum he makes. Your church is a baby-house made of blocks, and so of the state....The church, the state, the school, the magazine, think they are liberal and free! It is the freedom of a prison-yard.

Henry David Thoreau
Baby, Block, School

What other words, we may almost ask, are memorable and worthy to be repeated than those which love has inspired? It is wonderful that they were ever uttered. They are few and rare indeed, but, like a strain of music, they are incessantly repeated and modulated by the memory. All other words crumble off with the stucco which overlies the heart. We should not dare to repeat these now aloud. We are not competent to hear them at all times.

Henry David Thoreau
Memories, Memorable, Heart
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.637, Simon and Schuster

I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.

Henry David Thoreau
Wisdom, Self Reliance, Should
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

If we respected only what is inevitable and has a right to be, music and poetry would resound along the streets.

Henry David Thoreau
Inevitable, Streets, Ifs
Henry David Thoreau (1995). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods”, p.62, Courier Corporation

Invariably our best nights were those when it rained.

Henry David Thoreau
Rain, Night, Best Night
Henry David Thoreau (2014). “The Maine Woods (Annotated Edition)”, p.193, Jazzybee Verlag

A little thought is sexton to all the world.

Henry David Thoreau
World, Littles
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Quotable Thoreau: An A to Z Glossary of Inspiring Quotations from Henry David Thoreau”, p.96, BookBaby

Going from--toward; it is the history of every one of us.

Henry David Thoreau
History
Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.73, Yale University Press

What a healthy out-of-door appetite it takes to relish the apple of life, the apple of the world, then!

Henry David Thoreau
Doors, Apples, Healthy
Henry David Thoreau (2011). “The Natural History Essays”, p.201, Gibbs Smith

The botanist should make interest with the bees if he would know when the flowers open and when they close.

Henry David Thoreau
Flower, Bees, Should
Henry David Thoreau (2011). “The Journal of Henry David Thoreau, 1837-1861”, p.169, New York Review of Books

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