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Henry David Thoreau Quotes
«A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
apotheosis, asks, cherish, compliment, disgrace, expecting, incessantly, pays, religiously, to each other
«I went to the woods because I wanted to live deliberately, I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, To put to rout all that was not life and not when I had come to die Discover that I had not lived.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
deliberately, marrow, rout, suck, woods
«The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
earnest, in earnest, jest, squirrel, squirrels
«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.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
instincts, obedience, opposition, oppositions, peculiar, strives, supernatural, supernatural being
«Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
allows, by luck, composition, compositions, tricks
«Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships, after a style purely his own, nor can he get off by hammering marble instead. We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
blood, Blood and, body, boned, bones, builder, flesh, fleshed, Flesh and Blood, get off, hammered, hammering, hammers, hammer in, instead, in style, material, material body, My Style, off, our own, painters, purely, sculptors, style, styled, temple, Temple in, The God, worships
«Time is but the stream I go fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It's thin current slides away, but eternity remains.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Time
| Keywords:
bottom, bottom fish, current, detect, detecting, detects, drink, eternity, fishing, I go, remains, sandy, shallow, shallower, shallowest, shallows, slid, slides, sliding, stream, streaming, thin, thinned, thinner, thinnest, thinning, thins
«This life is not for complaint, but for satisfaction»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Life,
Satisfaction
| Keywords:
complaint
«A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Chance,
Wisdom
| Keywords:
masses, prevail, the Action
«The mass never comes up to the standard of its best member, but on the contrary degrades itself to a level with the lowest»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
A level, degrades, on the contrary, The Standard
