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Henry David Thoreau Quotes
«Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Heaven
| Keywords:
as well, feet, heads, heaven, under
«If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
Advances, confidently, direction, endeavors, hours, imagined, in common, unexpected
«If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
be quiet, compensation, compensations, disappointment, enough, Get Ready, quiet, quieted, quieter, quietest, quiets, readiest, ready, readying, shall
«Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
desperation, for a song, go, go to, grave, graver, gravest, lead, leading man, lead on, lives, men, O grave, quiet, quieted, quieter, quietest, quiets, Quiet Life, song, Song of the, still, The Grave
«Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
harmony, in harmony, live in, melodies, melody, merely, say
«You must not blame me if I do talk to the clouds.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
blame, clouded, clouding, clouds, Clouds The, cloud over, must not, talk, talk to, The Clouds
«The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
amount, cost, exchanged, immediately, in the long run, long run, required, The Long, The Long Run
«Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
buy, buy at, buy in, buy into, superfluities, superfluity, superfluous, wealth