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Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping.

Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping.

Henry David Thoreau
Life, Haste Makes Waste, Leisure
Henry David Thoreau, Steve Grant (2005). “Daily Observations: Thoreau on the Days of the Year”, p.103, Univ of Massachusetts Press

Thus men will lie on their backs, talking about the fall of man, and never make an effort to get up.

Henry David Thoreau
Life, Lying, Fall
Henry David Thoreau (1992). “The Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.78, Rowman & Littlefield

Dwell as near as possible to the channel in which your life flows.

Henry David Thoreau
Life, Peace, Teaching
Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.182, Yale University Press

No human being, past the thoughtless age of boyhood, will wantonly murder any creature which holds its life by the same tenure that he does.

Henry David Thoreau
Life, Learning, Knowledge
Henry David Thoreau, Linda Corrente (1984). “Henry David Thoreau's Walden”, Barrons Educational Series Incorporated

Don't be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.

Henry David Thoreau
Life, Cheating, Ethics And Morals

Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice.

Henry David Thoreau
Life, Vices, Morality
Henry David Thoreau (2000). “Walden and Other Writings: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.214, Modern Library

Do not suffer your life to be taken by newspapers.

Henry David Thoreau
Life, Taken, Suffering
Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1865). “Letters to Various Persons”, p.56

If I devote myself to other pursuits and contemplations, I must first see, at least, that I do not pursue them sitting upon another man's shoulders. I must get off him first, that he may pursue his contemplations too.

Henry David Thoreau
Life, Wisdom, Men
Henry David Thoreau (1942). “Civil Disobedience”, p.7, Hayes Barton Press

The art of life, of a poet's life, is, not having anything to do, to do something.

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

Life is so short that it is not wise to take roundabout ways, nor can we spend much time in waiting.... We have not got half-way to dawn yet.

Henry David Thoreau
Life, Wise, Waiting
Henry David Thoreau (1974). “The correspondence of Henry David Thoreau”, Greenwood Pub Group

We can never have enough of nature. We must be refreshed by the sight of inexhaustible vigor.

Henry David Thoreau
Life, Nature, Sight
Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.205, Cosimo, Inc.

My life is like a stroll upon the beach.

Henry David Thoreau
Life, Beach, Life Is Like
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Quotable Thoreau: An A to Z Glossary of Inspiring Quotations from Henry David Thoreau”, p.59, BookBaby

If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.

Henry David Thoreau
Funny, Life, Running
Henry David Thoreau (1995). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods”, p.48, Courier Corporation

Must be out-of-doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life.

Henry David Thoreau
Life, Time, Health
Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.100, Courier Corporation

The poet is a man who lives at last by watching his moods. An old poet comes at last to watch his moods as narrowly as a cat does a mouse.

Henry David Thoreau
Life, Cat, Men
Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.55, Courier Corporation

However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is not a part of me, but a spectator, sharing no experience, but taking note of it, and that is no more I than it is you. When the lay, it may be the tragedy, of life is over, the spectator goes his way. It was a kind of fiction, a work of the imagination only, so far as he was concerned.

Henry David Thoreau
Life, Imagination, Criticism

If I should sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I am sure, that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Henry David Thoreau
Life, Society, Would Be
"Life Without Principle". The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, Issue 71, (pp. 484-495), 1863.

Life is grand, and so are its environments of Past and Future. Would the face of nature be so serene and beautiful if man's destiny were not equally so?

Henry David Thoreau
Life, Beautiful, Past
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.2121, Delphi Classics

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book.

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

I have received no more than one or two letters in my life that were worth the postage.

Henry David Thoreau
Life, Two, Letters
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Quotable Thoreau: An A to Z Glossary of Inspiring Quotations from Henry David Thoreau”, p.78, BookBaby

Between whom there is hearty truth, there is love; and in proportion to our truthfulness and confidence in one another, our lives are divine and miraculous, and answer to our ideal. . . . Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

Henry David Thoreau
Life, Truth, Answers

Children, who play life, discern its true law and relations more clearly than men, who fail to live it worthily, but who think that they are wiser by experience, that is, by failure.

Henry David Thoreau
Life, Children, Failure
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.61, Simon and Schuster

Sometimes we are clarified and calmed healthily, as we never were before in our lives, not by an opiate, but by some unconscious obedience to the all-just laws, so that we become like a still lake of purest crystal and without an effort our depths are revealed to ourselves. . . .

Henry David Thoreau
Life, Lakes, Law
Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.44, Courier Corporation

He is blessed over all mortals who loses no moment of the passing life in remembering the past

Henry David Thoreau
Life, Blessed, Past
Henry David Thoreau (1993). “Civil Disobedience, and Other Essays”, p.73, Courier Corporation

What do the botanists know? Our lives should go between the lichen and the bark. The eye may see for the hand, but not for the mind. We are still being born, and have as yet but a dim vision of sea and land, sun, moon, and stars, and shall not see clearly till after nine days at least.

Henry David Thoreau
Life, Stars, Eye
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.286, Delphi Classics

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