100+ Henry David Thoreau Quotes

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU

Dowm Live Sit Vain
Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU

Book Chance Read
I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU

Myself Talk Yourself
The heart is forever inexperienced.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU

Deep Experience Forever Heart One Liner
Any fool can make a rule And any fool will mind it.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU

Fool Humour Law Mind One Liner Rules
I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in it’s gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU

Animal Destiny Doubt Eat Human Improvement Leave Race
I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU

Born Breathe Fashion Force Inspirational Strong
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU

Fame Love Money One Liner Truth
There is no remedy for love but to love more.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU

Love One Liner Remedy Sex
Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU

Cook Love Narrow Path Pursue Reverence Walk
Write while the heat is in you.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU

Heat Inspirational One Liner Writing
The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU

Bee Direction Honey One Liner Sunbeam
Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU

Believe Truth
We are constantly invited to be what we are.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU

Constant Deep Inspirational Invited Reality
It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?
HENRY DAVID THOREAU

Ant Industry Inspirational
Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?
HENRY DAVID THOREAU

Each Other Eyes Instant Miracle Place
An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU

Blessing Exercise Inspirational Life Morning Work Out
I have a room all to myself; it is nature.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU

Myself Nature One Liner Room
Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU

Distance Earth Friendship
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU

Confirm Desperation Lead Live Men Quiet Resignation
Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.
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Cheer Equality Innocence Invitation Morning Nature Simplicity
I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU

Chair Friendship Funny House Humour Society Solitude
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.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU

DAngry Music Passion Peace Time
I have an immense appetite for solitude, like an infant for sleep, and if I don’t get enough for this year, I shall cry all the next.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU

Appetite Cry Immense Sleep Solitude
It is never too late to give up your prejudices.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU

Give Up Inspirational Life One Liner Prejudice
I have, as it were, my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU

Moon Myself Stars Sun World
As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU

Life Minimalism Poverty Simplicity Solitude Universe Weakness

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