Henry David Thoreau Quotes - Page 36
Truth never turns to rebuke falsehood; her own straightforwardness is the severest correction.
I know a good woman who thinks that her son lost his life because he took to drinking water only.
The poet is he who can write some pure mythology today without the aid of posterity.
The great poem must have the stamp of greatness as well as its essence.
As long as there is satire, the poet is, as it were, particeps criminis.
Much of our poetry has the very best manners, but no character.
If you indulge in long periods, you must be sure to have a snapper at the end.
We shall be reduced to gnaw the very crust of the earth for nutriment.
Most of the stone a nation hammers goes toward its tomb only. It buries itself alive.
The thoughtful man becomes a hermit in the thoroughfares of the marketplace.
Commonly men will only be brave as their fathers were brave, or timid.
We find it difficult to choose our direction because it does not yet exist distinctly in our idea.
Work your vein till it is exhausted, or conducts you to a broader one.
Woe be to the generation that lets any higher faculty in its midst go unemployed.
WE begin to die not in our sense or extremities, but in our divine faculties.
