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I would give all the wealth of the world, and all the deeds of all the heroes, for one true vision.

I would give all the wealth of the world, and all the deeds of all the heroes, for one true vision.

Henry David Thoreau
Inspirational, Hero, Giving
Henry David Thoreau, Carl Hovde (1980). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.140, Princeton University Press

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.

Henry David Thoreau
Inspirational, Optimistic, Heartache
Henry David Thoreau (1995). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods”, p.59, Courier Corporation

Of what significance the light of day, if it is not the reflection of an inward dawn?--to what purpose is the veil of night withdrawn, if the morning reveals nothing to the soul? It is merely garish and glaring.

Henry David Thoreau
Inspirational, Morning, Reflection
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Selected Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.247, Simon and Schuster

The poet's body even is not fed like other men's, but he sometimes tastes the genuine nectar and ambrosia of the gods, and lives adivine life. By the healthful and invigorating thrills of inspiration his life is preserved to a serene old age.

Henry David Thoreau
Inspirational, Men, Serenity
Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.243, Xist Publishing

Nature is as well adapted to our weakness as to our strength.

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

Our thoughts are epochs in our lives; all else is but as a journal of the winds that blow while we are here.

Henry David Thoreau
Inspirational, Life, Blow

A good book is the plectrum with which our else silent lyres are struck.

Henry David Thoreau
Inspirational, Book, Silent
Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.279, Xist Publishing

The necessity of labor and conversation with many men and things to the scholar is rarely well remembered.

Henry David Thoreau
Inspirational, Men, Experience
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.516, Simon and Schuster

So long as a man is faithful to himself, everything is in his favor, government, society, the very sun, moon, and stars.

Henry David Thoreau
Inspirational, Stars, Moon

Much verse fails of being poetry because it was not written exactly at the right crisis, though it may have been inconceivably near to it. It is only by a miracle that poetry is written at all. It is not recoverable thought, but a hue caught from a vaster receding thought.

Henry David Thoreau
Inspirational, Miracle, Poetry
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.246, Delphi Classics

The poet who walks by moonlight is conscious of a tide in his thought which is to be referred to lunar influence.

Henry David Thoreau
Inspirational, Moon, Poetry
Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Excursions and Poems : The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume V (of 20)”, p.289, HOUGHTON MIFFLIN AND COMPANY

In my cheapest moments I am apt to think that it is n't my business to be "seeking the spirit," but as much its business to be seeking me.

Henry David Thoreau
Inspirational, Life, Thinking
Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.134, Jazzybee Verlag

Seeds, there are seeds enough which need only be stirred in with the soil where they lie, by an inspired voice or pen, to bear fruit of a divine flavor.

Henry David Thoreau
Inspirational, Lying, Voice
Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.8, Yale University Press

The murmurs of many a famous river on the other side of the globe reach even to us here, as to more distant dwellers on its banks;many a poet's stream, floating the helms and shields of heroes on its bosom.

Henry David Thoreau
Inspirational, Hero, Rivers
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.17, Courier Corporation

The poet's, commonly, is not a logger's path, but a woodman's. The logger and pioneer have preceded him, like John the Baptist; eaten the wild honey, it may be, but the locusts also; banished decaying wood and the spongy mosses which feed on it, and built hearths and humanized Nature for him.

Henry David Thoreau
Inspirational, Civilization, Moss
Henry David Thoreau (1873). “The Maine Woods”, p.160

But there are spirits of a yet more liberal culture, to whom no simplicity is barren. There are not only stately pines, but fragile flowers, like the orchises, commonly described as too delicate for cultivation, which derive their nutriment from the crudest mass of peat. These remind us, that, not only for strength, but for beauty, the poet must, from time to time, travel the logger's path and the Indian's trail, to drink at some new and more bracing fountain of the Muses, far in the recesses of the wilderness.

Henry David Thoreau
Inspirational, Flower, Simplicity
Henry David Thoreau (1873). “The Maine Woods”, p.160

Look not to legislatures and churches for your guidance, nor to any soulless incorporated bodies, but to inspirited or inspired ones.

Henry David Thoreau
Inspirational, Church, Looks
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.337, Simon and Schuster

We perceive and are affected by changes too subtle to be described.

Henry David Thoreau
Inspirational, Change, Influence
Henry David Thoreau (2011). “The Journal of Henry David Thoreau, 1837-1861”, p.489, New York Review of Books

If I am to be a thoroughfare, I prefer that it be of the mountain brooks, the Parnassian streams, and not the town sewers. There is inspiration, that gossip which comes to the ear of the attentive mind from the courts of heaven. There is the profane and stale revelation of the barroom and the police court. The same ear is fitted to receive both communications. Only the character of the hearer determines to which it shall be open, and to which closed.

Henry David Thoreau
Inspirational, Communication, Character
Henry David Thoreau, Barry Andrews (2005). “True Harvest: Readings from Henry David Thoreau for Every Day of the Year”, p.137, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.

Henry David Thoreau
Inspirational, Success, Business
Henry David Thoreau (1993). “A Year in Thoreau's Journal: 1851”, p.25, Penguin

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