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Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life We are determined to be starved before we are hungry. Men say that a stitch in time saves nine, and so they take a thousand stitiches today to save nine tomorrow.
By Henry David Thoreau
While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings.
By Henry David Thoreau
Where there is an observatory and a telescope, we expect that any eyes will see new worlds at once.
By Henry David Thoreau
Whether the flower looks better in the nosegay than in the meadow where it grew and we had to wet our feet to get it! Is the scholastic air any advantage?
By Henry David Thoreau
When I read some of the rules for speaking and writing the English language correctly...I think-- Any fool can make a rule And every fool will mind it.
By Henry David Thoreau
When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.
By Henry David Thoreau
When any real progress is made, we unlearn and learn anew what we thought we knew before.
By Henry David Thoreau
Whatever sentence will bear to be read twice, we may be sure was thought twice.
By Henry David Thoreau
What you get by achieving your goals is to as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
By Henry David Thoreau
What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
By Henry David Thoreau
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on
By Henry David Thoreau
What men call good fellowship is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter which lie close together to keep each other warm.
By Henry David Thoreau
What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
By Henry David Thoreau
What the banker sighs for, the meanest clown may have, - leisure and a quiet mind
By Henry David Thoreau
What is peculiar in the life of a man consists not in his obedience, but his opposition, to his instincts. In one direction or another he strives to live a supernatural life.
By Henry David Thoreau
What is a country without rabbits and partridges They are among the most simple and indigenous animal products ancient and venerable familes known to antiquity as to modern times of the very hue and substance of Nature, nearest allied to leaves and to the ground.
By Henry David Thoreau
What does education often do It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
By Henry David Thoreau
What a man thinks of himself that is what determines, or rather indicates his fate.
By Henry David Thoreau
We must have infinite faith in each other. If we have not, we must never let it leak out that we have not.
By Henry David Thoreau
We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.
By Henry David Thoreau
We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.
By Henry David Thoreau
We falsely attribute to men a determined character - putting together all their yesterdays - and averaging them - we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support - it is worse than a large family - he is the silent poor indeed.
By Henry David Thoreau