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If one hesitates in his path, let him not proceed. Let him respect his doubts, for doubts, too, may have some divinity in them.

If one hesitates in his path, let him not proceed. Let him respect his doubts, for doubts, too, may have some divinity in them.

Henry David Thoreau
Confidence, Respect, Doubt
Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.359, Penguin

I wish to suggest that a man may be very industrious, and yet not spend his time well. There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living. All great enterprises are self-supporting. The poet, for instance, must sustain his body by his poetry, as a steam planing-mill feeds its boilers with the shavings it makes. You must get your living by loving.

Henry David Thoreau
Life, Hard Work, Men
Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.417, Penguin

We should seek to be fellow students with the pupil, and should learn of, as well as with him, if we would be most helpful to him.

Henry David Thoreau
Educational, Would Be, Students
Henry David Thoreau (1999). “Uncommon Learning: Thoreau on Education”, p.65, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

To inherit property is not to be born - it is to be still-born, rather.

Henry David Thoreau
Educational, Inheritance, Born

Do not despair of life. You have no doubt force enough to overcome your obstacles. Think of the fox prowling through wood and field in a winter night for something to satisfy his hunger. Notwithstanding cold and the hounds and traps, his race survives. I do not believe any of them ever committed suicide.

Henry David Thoreau
Suicide, Believe, Suicidal
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Instead of water we got here a draught of beer, a lumberer's drink, which would acclimate and naturalize a man at once,-which would make him see green, and, if he slept, dream that he heard the wind sough among the pines.

Henry David Thoreau
Dream, Beer, Men
Henry David Thoreau (2014). “The Maine Woods (Annotated Edition)”, p.24, Jazzybee Verlag

We soon get through with nature. She excites an expectation which she cannot satisfy.

Henry David Thoreau
Hope, Expectations
Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.131, Courier Corporation

Say, Not so, and you will out circle the philosophers.

Henry David Thoreau
Philosophy, Circles, Philosopher

It is the man determines what is said, not the words.

Henry David Thoreau
Men, Speech, He Man
Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.16, Courier Corporation

The process of discovery is very simple. An unwearied and systematic application of known laws to nature, causes the unknown to reveal themselves. Almost any mode of observation will be successful at last, for what is most wanted is method.

Henry David Thoreau
Success, Knowledge, Science
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.271, Delphi Classics

We live thick and are in each other's way, and stumble over one another, and I think we thus lose some respect for one another.

Henry David Thoreau
Respect, Thinking, Way
Henry David Thoreau (2008). “Walden, Civil Disobedience, and Other Writings: Authoritative Texts, Journal, Reviews and Posthumous Assessments, Criticism”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated

We must take root; send out some little fibre at least, even every winter day.

Henry David Thoreau
Winter, Roots, Littles
Henry David Thoreau (2011). “The Journal of Henry David Thoreau, 1837-1861”, p.428, New York Review of Books

Absolutely speaking, Do unto others as you would that they should do unto you is by no means a golden rule, but the best of current silver. An honest man would have but little occasion for it. It is golden not to have any rule at all in such a case.

Henry David Thoreau
Honesty, Mean, Men
Henry David Thoreau (2014). “A Week On The Concord And Merrimack Rivers (Annotated Edition)”, p.60, Jazzybee Verlag

It would be better if there were but one inhabitant to a square mile, as where I live.

Henry David Thoreau
Squares, Solitude, Would Be
Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience: Top American Literary”, p.85, 谷月社

I thrive best on solitude. If I have had a companion only one day in a week, unless it were one or two I could name, I find that the value of the week to me has been seriously affected. It dissipates my days, and often it takes me another week to get over it.

Henry David Thoreau
Names, Two, Solitude
Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.298, Yale University Press

Ah! I need solitude. I have come forth to this hill at sunset to see the forms of the mountains in the horizon - to behold and commune with something grander than man. Their mere distance and unprofanedness is an infinite encouragement. it is with infinite yearning and aspiration that I seek solitude, more and more resolved and strong; but with a certain weakness that I seek society ever.

Henry David Thoreau
Encouragement, Strong, Distance
Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.135, Courier Corporation

The Slothful do not have the time to become virtuous or despicable.

Henry David Thoreau
Sloth, Laziness, Virtuous

Do not seek so anxiously to be developed, to subject yourself to many influences to be played on; it is all dissipation. Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights.

Henry David Thoreau
Humility, Light, Darkness
Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.212, Cosimo, Inc.

With all your science can you tell me how it is, and when it is, that light comes into the soul?

Henry David Thoreau
Learning, Light, Soul
Henry David Thoreau, Robert Bly (1992). “The Winged Life: The Poetic Voice of Henry David Thoreau”, Perennial

Even the facts of science may dust the mind by their dryness, unless they are ... rendered fertile by the dews of fresh and living truth. Knowledge does not come to us by details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

Henry David Thoreau
Knowledge, Science, Light
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.419, Simon and Schuster

Fishing has been styled 'a contemplative man's recreation,' ... and science is only a more contemplative man's recreation.

Henry David Thoreau
Science, Men, Fishing

The fact which interests us most is the life of the naturalist. The purest science is still biographical. Nothing will dignify and elevate science while it is sundered so wholly from the moral life of its devotee.

Henry David Thoreau
Science, Biographies, Facts
Henry David Thoreau (2014). “The Illustrated "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers"”, p.362, Princeton University Press

What are the libraries of science but files of newspapers?

Henry David Thoreau
Science, Library, Newspapers
Henry David Thoreau (2000). “Walden and Other Writings: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.669, Modern Library

It is childish to rest in the discovery of mere coincidences, or of partial and extraneous laws.

Henry David Thoreau
Science, Discovery, Law
Henry David Thoreau (2014). “The Illustrated "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers"”, p.362, Princeton University Press

Man cannot afford to be a naturalist, to look at Nature directly, but only with the side of his eye. He must look through and beyond her.

Henry David Thoreau
Nature, Eye, Science
Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.183, Yale University Press

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