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If I am not I, who will be?

If I am not I, who will be?

Henry David Thoreau
Self Esteem, Self Respect, Esteem
Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.110, Xist Publishing

A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority.

Henry David Thoreau
Majority, Minorities, Catchy
Henry David Thoreau (1942). “Civil Disobedience”, p.11, Hayes Barton Press

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

Henry David Thoreau
Business, Integrity, Bad Day
Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.133, Graphic Arts Books

The path of least resistance leads to crooked rivers and crooked men.

Henry David Thoreau
Men, Rivers, Path

All things in this world must be seen with youthful, hopeful eyes.

Henry David Thoreau
Hope, Children, Eye
Henry David Thoreau, John C. Broderick, Robert Sattelmeyer (1981). “Journal”, p.93, Princeton University Press

It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.

Henry David Thoreau
Life, Thinking, Clouds
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1768, Delphi Classics

To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.

Henry David Thoreau
Thinking, Hiking, Mind
Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.27, Heron Dance Press

When was it that men agreed to respect the appearance and not the reality?

Henry David Thoreau
Respect, Reality, Men
Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.361, Penguin

When were the good and the brave ever in a majority?

Henry David Thoreau
Volunteer, Community, Brave
"A Plea for Captain John Brown" (1859)

My profession is to always find God in nature.

Henry David Thoreau
Nature, Profession, Nature Beauty

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Henry David Thoreau
Life, Money, Wealth And Happiness

I have, as it were, my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself.

Henry David Thoreau
Life, Stars, Moon
Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.85, Cosimo, Inc.

That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.

Henry David Thoreau
Happiness, Wisdom, Money

He who owns little is little owned.

Henry David Thoreau
Littles

He who hears the rippling of rivers in these degenerate days will not utterly despair.

Henry David Thoreau
Nature, Rivers, Despair
Henry David Thoreau, Carl Hovde (1980). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.334, Princeton University Press

I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals.

Henry David Thoreau
Animal, Destiny, Race
1854 Walden, or Life in the Woods,'Higher Laws'.

Renew thyself completely each day.

Henry David Thoreau
Each Day, Thyself
Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.58, Cosimo, Inc.

In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.

Henry David Thoreau
Education, Running, Dream
Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.167, Penguin

We are constantly invited to be who we are.

Henry David Thoreau
Who We Are, Authenticity, Invited

If the day and night are such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, more starry, more immortal - that is your success.

Henry David Thoreau
Life, Sweet, Congratulations
Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.132, Graphic Arts Books

Remember that the smallest seed of faith is of more worth than the largest fruit of happiness.

Henry David Thoreau
Happiness, Depression, Faith
"Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau".

I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.

Henry David Thoreau
Valentines Day, Wise, Wisdom
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Quotable Thoreau: An A to Z Glossary of Inspiring Quotations from Henry David Thoreau”, p.110, BookBaby

You cannot perceive beauty but with a serene mind.

Henry David Thoreau
Beauty, Peace, Mind
Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.83, Heron Dance Press

Everyone must believe in something. I believe I'll go canoeing.

Henry David Thoreau
Believe, Food, Paddling

The voice of nature is always encouraging.

Henry David Thoreau
Nature, Voice, Saddening
Henry David Thoreau, Ronald A. Bosco (2005). “Nature's Panorama: Thoreau on the Seasons”, p.111, Univ of Massachusetts Press

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