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Henry David Thoreau Quotes about Heaven

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Here or nowhere is our heaven.

Here or nowhere is our heaven.

Henry David Thoreau
Truth, Heaven, Existence
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.718, Simon and Schuster

There is only one path to Heaven. On Earth, we call it Love.

Henry David Thoreau
Love, Heaven, Earth

We now no longer camp as for a night, but have settled down on earth and forgotten heaven.

Henry David Thoreau
Night, Heaven, Camping
Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.61

Heaven is not one of your fertile Ohio bottoms, you may depend on it.

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Ohio, Heaven, May
Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.220, Jazzybee Verlag

The gifts of Heaven are never quite gratuitous.

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Heaven, Grace, Never Quit
Henry David Thoreau (1873). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.373

We have need to be earth-born as well as heaven-born, gegeneis, as was said of the Titans of old, or in a better sense than they.

Henry David Thoreau
Heaven, Needs, Earth

There may be an excess of cultivation as well as of anything else, until civilization becomes pathetic. A highly cultivated man,--all whose bones can be bent! whose heaven-born virtues are but good manners!

Henry David Thoreau
Men, Civilization, Heaven
Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.39, Xist Publishing

I always see those of whom I have heard well with a slight disappointment. They are so much better than the great herd, and yet the heavens are not shivered into diamonds over their heads.

Henry David Thoreau
Disappointment, Heaven, Herds
Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.68, Jazzybee Verlag

I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion. I would rather ride on earth in an ox cart, with a free circulation, than go to heaven in the fancy car of an excursion train and breathe a malaria all the way.

Henry David Thoreau
Fancy Cars, Anxiety, Heaven
Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.60

A temple, you know, was anciently "an open place without a roof," whose walls served merely to shut out the world and direct the mind toward heaven; but a modern meeting-house shuts out the heavens, while it crowds the world into still closer quarters.

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Wall, Heaven, House
Henry David Thoreau, Joseph O. Valentine, Thoreau Society (2001). “Thoreau on Land: Nature's Canvas”, p.37, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The Heavens are as deep as our aspirations are high.

Henry David Thoreau
Angel, Heaven, Aspiration
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Quotable Thoreau: An A to Z Glossary of Inspiring Quotations from Henry David Thoreau”, p.17, BookBaby

Who knows what the human body would expand and flow out to under a more genial heaven?

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Heaven, Body, Flow
Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience: Top American Literary”, p.189, 谷月社

Heaven might be defined as the place which men avoid.

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Spiritual, Men, Heaven
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Quotable Thoreau: An A to Z Glossary of Inspiring Quotations from Henry David Thoreau”, p.44, BookBaby

Nature is fair in proportion as the youth is pure. The heavens and the earth are one flower ; the earth is the calyx, the heavens the corolla.

Henry David Thoreau
Nature, Flower, Heaven
Henry David Thoreau, John C. Broderick, Robert Sattelmeyer, Sandra Harbert Petrulionis (1981). “Journal”, p.180, Princeton University Press

It requires a direct dispensation from Heaven to become a walker.

Henry David Thoreau
Heaven, Sauntering, Walkers
Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walking: Top Essays”, p.1, 谷月社

The chimney is to some extent an independent structure, standing on the ground, and rising through the house to the heavens; evenafter the house is burned it still stands sometimes, and its importance and independence are apparent.

Henry David Thoreau
Independent, House, Heaven
Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.156, Cosimo, Inc.

My eye is educated to discover anything on the ground, as chestnuts, etc. It is probably wholesomer to look at the ground much than at the heavens.

Henry David Thoreau
Education, Eye, Heaven
Henry David Thoreau (2011). “The Journal of Henry David Thoreau, 1837-1861”, p.468, New York Review of Books

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