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If the work is high and far, You must not only aim aright, But draw the bow with all your might.

If the work is high and far, You must not only aim aright, But draw the bow with all your might.

Henry David Thoreau
Inspirational, Positive, Effort
"The Portable Thoreau".

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

Henry David Thoreau
Inspirational, Life, Time
Henry David Thoreau (1995). “Walden: An Annotated Edition”, p.87, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.

Henry David Thoreau
Inspirational, Life, Success
Walden ch. 1 (1854)

All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.

Henry David Thoreau
Inspirational, Smart, Yoga

Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.

Henry David Thoreau
Inspirational, Life, Insperational
Henry David Thoreau (2014). “The Maine Woods: The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume III (of 20)”, p.71, Trajectory Inc

It is never too late to give up our prejudices.

Henry David Thoreau
Inspirational, Giving Up, Learning
Henry David Thoreau, Nancy L. Rosenblum (1996). “Thoreau: Political Writings”, p.27, Cambridge University Press

I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. . . . In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness.

Henry David Thoreau
Inspirational, Dream, Live Life
Walden ch. 18 (1854)

Measure your health by your sympathy with morning and spring. If there is no response in you to the awakening of nature -if the prospect of an early morning walk does not banish sleep, if the warble of the first bluebird does not thrill you -know that the morning and spring of your life are past. Thus may you feel your pulse.

Henry David Thoreau
Inspirational, Life, Sympathy

One must maintain a little bittle of summer, even in the middle of winter.

Henry David Thoreau
Inspirational, Summer, Nature

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau
Love, Inspirational, Monday
Henry David Thoreau, Nancy L. Rosenblum (1996). “Thoreau: Political Writings”, p.106, Cambridge University Press

Men go back to the mountains, as they go back to sailing ships at sea, because in the mountains and on the sea they must face up.

Henry David Thoreau
Inspirational, Funny, Men

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.

Henry David Thoreau
Inspirational, Cheating, Integrity
Henry David Thoreau, Barry Andrews (2005). “True Harvest: Readings from Henry David Thoreau for Every Day of the Year”, p.83, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.

Henry David Thoreau
Inspirational, Life, Health
Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Thoreau on Nature: Sage Words on Finding Harmony with the Natural World”, p.10, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

In short, I am convinced, both by faith and experience, that to maintain one's self on this earth is not a hardship but a pastime, if we will live simply and wisely; as the pursuits of the simpler nations are still the sports of the more artificial.

Henry David Thoreau
Inspirational, Life, Sports
Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.46, Cosimo, Inc.

Nature is doing her best each moment to make us well. She exists for no other end. Do not resist. With the least inclination to be well, we should not be sick.

Henry David Thoreau
Inspirational, Motivational, Suicide
Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.119, Courier Corporation

Man emulates earth Earth emulates heaven Heaven emulates the Way The way emulates nature.

Henry David Thoreau
Inspirational, Life, Positive

The kindness I have longest remembered has been of this sort, the sort unsaid; so far behind the speaker's lips that almost it already lay in my heart. It did not have far to go to be communicated.

Henry David Thoreau
Inspirational, Children, Kindness
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1644, Delphi Classics

Being is the great explainer.

Henry David Thoreau
Inspirational, Being Sad, Literature
1841 Journal entry, 26 Feb.

Between whom there is hearty truth there is love.

Henry David Thoreau
Love, Inspirational, Philosophy
Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.10, Heron Dance Press

It is no more dusky in ordinary nights than our mind's habitual atmosphere, and the moonlight is as bright as our most illuminatedmoments are.

Henry David Thoreau
Inspirational, Night, Atmosphere
Henry David Thoreau, Horace Elisha Scudder, Harrison Gray Otis Blake, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Franklin Benjamin Sanborn (1803). “The Writings of Henry David Thoreau”, p.408

Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.

Henry David Thoreau
Inspirational, Justice, May
Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.87, Penguin

If the laborer gets no more than the wages which his employer pays him, he is cheated, he cheats himself.

Henry David Thoreau
Inspirational, Wages, Pay
Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.216, Graphic Arts Books

The word which is best said came nearest to not being spoken at all, for it is cousin to a deed which the speaker could have better done. Nay, almost it must have taken the place of a deed by some urgent necessity, even by some misfortune, so that the truest writer will be some captive knight, after all. And perhaps the fates had such a design, when, having stored Raleigh so richly with the substance of life and experience, they made him a fast prisoner, and compelled him to make his words his deeds, and transfer to his expression the emphasis and sincerity of his action.

Henry David Thoreau
Inspirational, Cousin, Taken
Henry David Thoreau (2014). “A Week On The Concord And Merrimack Rivers (Annotated Edition)”, p.87, Jazzybee Verlag

For it matters not how small the beginning may seem to be: what is once well done is done forever.

Henry David Thoreau
Inspirational, Success, Forever
"The Essays of Henry D. Thoreau: Selected and Edited by Lewis Hyde".

I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live, and could not spare any more time for that one.

Henry David Thoreau
Inspirational, Woods, Reason
Henry David Thoreau (2004). “Walden: 150th Anniversary Illustrated Edition of the American Classic”, p.314, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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