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Henry David Thoreau

1. "Who hears the fishes when they cry?"

source: "The Writings of Henry David Thoreau"

categories: Nature and Animals -:- Pain and Tears

2. "What can be expressed in words can be expressed in life."

source: "The Writings of Henry David Thoreau"

categories: Life and Death -:- Oration and Silence

3. "This world is but canvas to our imaginations."

categories: Reality and Imagination

4. "There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages."

source: "The Writings of Henry David Thoreau"

categories: Marriage

5. "The world is a cow that is hard to milk [...]"

source: "The Writings of Henry David Thoreau"

categories: Various

6. "The schools begin with what they call the elements, and where do they end?"

source: "The Writings of Henry David Thoreau"

categories: Education

7. "The poet who walks by moonlight is conscious of a tide in his thought which is to be referred to lunar influence."

source: "The Writings of Henry David Thoreau"

categories: Art and Culture

8. "The poet is a man who lives at last by watching his moods. An old poet comes at last to watch his moods as narrowly as a cat does a mouse."

source: "Journals"

categories: Art and Culture -:- Various

9. "The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency."

source: "The Writings of Henry David Thoreau"

categories: Law and Crime -:- Truth and Falsity

10. "The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free. "

source: "Slavery in Massachusetts"

categories: Freedom and Servitude -:- Human -:- Law and Crime

11. "The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings. It is an intelligence above language."

source: "The Writings of Henry David Thoreau"

categories: Friendship and Hostility

12. "The heavens are as deep as our aspirations are high."

source: "The Writings of Henry David Thoreau"

categories: Dreams and Desires

13. "The heart is blind; but love is not blind. None of the gods is so discriminating."

source: "The Writings of Henry David Thoreau"

categories: Love

14. "The civilized man is a more experienced and wiser savage."

categories: Human -:- Various

15. "The bluebird carries the sky on his back."

categories: Nature and Animals

16. "The best way to correct a mistake is to make it right."

categories: Defeates and Mistakes

17. "That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest."

categories: Richness and Money

18. "Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it."

categories: Success and Fame

19. "None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm."

categories: Youth and Age

20. "Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day."

source: "The Writings of Henry David Thoreau"

categories: Nature and Animals -:- Various

21. "Nature is mythical and mystical always, and works with the license and extravagance of genius. She has her luxurious and florid style as well as art."

categories: Nature and Animals -:- Talent and Genius

22. "Nature is goodness crystallized."

source: "The Writings of Henry David Thoreau"

categories: Nature and Animals -:- Good and Evil

23. "Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them."

categories: Dreams and Desires -:- Life and Death -:- Pain and Tears

24. "Men have become tools of their tools."

categories: Human -:- Science and Technology

25. "Love must be as much a light as a flame."

source: "The Writings of Henry David Thoreau"

categories: Love

26. "Knowledge does not come to us by details, but in flashes of light from heaven."

categories: Knowledge, Ignorance -:- Talent and Genius

27. "Is there any such thing as wisdom not applied to life?"

source: "The Writings of Henry David Thoreau"

categories: Life and Death -:- Wisdom and Stupidity

28. "If words were invented to conceal thought, I think that newspapers are a great improvement on a bad invention."

source: "The Writings of Henry David Thoreau"

categories: Science and Technology -:- Various

29. "If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man."

source: "The Writings of Henry David Thoreau"

categories: Human -:- Life and Death -:- Nature and Animals

30. "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."

categories: Dreams and Desires -:- Reality and Imagination

31. "Fame itself is but an epitaph; as late, as false, as true."

source: "The Writings of Henry David Thoreau"

categories: Success and Fame

32. "Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new."

source: "Walden"

categories: Manners and Ethics

33. "Cowards suffer, heroes enjoy."

categories: Bravery and Fear -:- Joy and Sadness

34. "Be true to your work, your word, and your friend."

categories: Friendship and Hostility -:- Truth and Falsity -:- Work and Laziness

35. "As if we could kill time without injuring eternity!"

categories: Time and Passing

36. "Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one."

categories: Various

37. "Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it."

categories: Wisdom and Stupidity

38. "An early morning walk is a blessing for the whole day."

categories: Various

39. "A goal is a dream taken seriously."

categories: Dreams and Desires -:- Success and Fame


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