Famous Quotes by Henry David Thoreau

“All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.”

Henry David Thoreau

“Any fool can make a ruleAnd any fool will mind it.”

Henry David Thoreau

“It is remarkable how long men will believe in the bottomlessness of a pond without taking the trouble to sound it.”

Henry David Thoreau

“Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.”

Henry David Thoreau

“Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.”

Henry David Thoreau

“Truth strikes us from behind and in the dark, as well as from before and in broad daylight.”

Henry David Thoreau

“As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.”

Henry David Thoreau

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

Henry David Thoreau

It's not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is: what are we busy about?

Henry David Thoreau

Dawn is the dream of what we can become.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Henry David Thoreau

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

Henry David Thoreau

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.

Henry David Thoreau

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.

Henry David Thoreau

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves, and much of our ‘lostness’ begins in childhood.

Henry David Thoreau

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

Henry David Thoreau

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing it is not fish they are after.

Henry David Thoreau

“Things do not change; we change.”

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