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Henry David Thoreau Quotes
«In the love of narrow souls I make many short voyages but in vain - I find no sea room - but in great souls I sail before the wind without a watch, and never reach the shore.»
«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.»
«Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
contemplation, critical, details, elevated, tasked, worthy
«The boy gathers materials for a temple, and then when he is thirty, concludes to build a woodshed.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
and then, boy, build, concludes, concluding, Gathering The, gathers, gather in, gather up, materials, temple, Temple in, thirties, thirty, This Boy, woodshed
«Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Commitment,
Dreams,
Goals,
Graduation,
Life
| Keywords:
confidently, imagined
«To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
accidental, advantages, assist, assisted, assisting, assists, commonly, counsel, goodwill, harmony, influence, in harmony, in time, living substance, melodies, melody, practical, substance, substances, sufficient, trifled, trifling, utmost
«In the long run, men only hit what they aim at.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
aim, hit, hit man, in the long run, long run, run, The Long, The Long Run
«We can never have enough of nature. We must be refreshed by the sight of inexhaustible vigor, vast and titanic features, the sea-coast with its wrecks, the wilderness with its living and its decaying trees, the thunder-cloud, and the rain.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
cloud, coast, coasting, Coast to Coast, decaying, features, inexhaustible, like thunder, rain cloud, refreshed, refreshes, refreshing, sea-coast, The Sea, the Wilderness, the Wrecks, thunder, thundered, thundering, titanic, vast, vigor, wilderness, wildernesses, wrecking, wrecks