Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUDisobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
-
-
Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU -
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
HENRY DAVID THOREAU -
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU -
Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU -
Any fool can make a rule And any fool will mind it.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU -
How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU -
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU -
There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU -
Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU -
Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU -
We are born as innocents. We are polluted by advice.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU -
I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU -
A lake is a landscape’s most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth’s eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU -
Simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU -
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU