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However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are the richest.
By Henry David Thoreau
How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.
By Henry David Thoreau
How sweet it would be to treat men and things, for an hour, for just what they are!
By Henry David Thoreau
How earthy old people become --moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets.
By Henry David Thoreau
Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars.
By Henry David Thoreau
Government never furthered any enterprise but the alacrity with which it got out of the way.
By Henry David Thoreau
Good poetry seems too simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder that all men are not always poets. Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.
By Henry David Thoreau
God reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to us.
By Henry David Thoreau
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.
By Henry David Thoreau
Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.
By Henry David Thoreau
Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.
By Henry David Thoreau
Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through, and you could go in the back way.
By Henry David Thoreau
Far travel, very far travel, or travail, comes to almost the worth of staying home.
By Henry David Thoreau
Faint heart never won true friend. O my friend, may it come to pass, once, that when you are my friend I may be yours.
By Henry David Thoreau
Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.
By Henry David Thoreau
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.
By Henry David Thoreau
Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?
By Henry David Thoreau
Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends... Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.
By Henry David Thoreau
Do not worry if you have built your castles in the air. They are where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
By Henry David Thoreau
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good be good for something.
By Henry David Thoreau