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Henry David Thoreau Quotes
«I have climbed several higher mountains without guide or path, and have found, as might be expected, that it takes only more time and patience commonly than to travel the smoothest highway»
«Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.»
«It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for law, so much as a respect for right.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Law and lawyers
| Keywords:
cultivate, desirable
«The kindness I have longest remembered has been of this sort, the sort unsaid; so far behind the speaker's lips that almost it already lay in my heart. It did not have far to go to be communicated.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Kindness
| Keywords:
communicated, lay, lay in, lips, longest, remembered, so far, speaker, Speaker of, unsaid, unsay
«We need only travel enough to give our intellects an airing.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Travel
| Keywords:
airing, intellects
«You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; a certain free-margin, and even vagueness - ignorance, credulity - helps your enjoyment of these things.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
birds, certain, credulity, enjoyment, flowering tree, flowers, free, helps, ignorance, margin, margins, must not, precise, scientific, these, too much, trees, vagueness, watercraft
«Men will lie on their backs, talking about the fall of man, and never make an effort to get up»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Lies
| Keywords:
backs, Fall of Man, get up, Of Man, talking, The Fall, The Fall of Man
«For an impenetrable shield, stand inside yourself»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Strength
| Keywords:
impenetrable, inside, shield, shielded, shielding
«One is wise to cultivate the tree that bears fruit in our soul»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
bears, cultivate, cultivates, fruit, fruited, fruit tree, fruit trees, Tree, wise to
«Government never furthered any enterprise but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Government
| Keywords:
alacrity, enterprise, furthered