Should not every apartment in which man dwells be lofty enough to create some obscurity overhead, where flickering shadows may play at evening about the rafters? Henry David Thoreau More Quotes by Henry David Thoreau More Quotes From Henry David Thoreau As long as I have the friendship of the sesasons life will never be a burden to me. Henry David Thoreau burden long The better part of the man is soon ploughed into the soil for compost. By a seeming fate, commonly called necessity, they are employed, as it says in an old book, laying up treasures which moth and rust will corrupt and thieves break through and steal. It is a fool's life, as they will find when they get to the end of it, if not before. Henry David Thoreau fate men book To be awake is to be completely alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake. Henry David Thoreau mets alive men For it matters not how small the beginning may seem to be: what is once well done is done forever. Henry David Thoreau forever success inspirational Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one already. Henry David Thoreau neighbor majority men Gardening is civil and social, but it wants the vigor and freedom of the forest and the outlaw. Henry David Thoreau environmental vigor garden A gun will give you the body, not the bird Henry David Thoreau gun bird giving I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well. Henry David Thoreau self-reliance wisdom should Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. Books, the oldest and the best, stand naturally and rightfully on the shelves of every cottage. They have no cause of their own to plead, but while they enlighten and sustain the reader his common sense will not refuse them. Their authors are a natural and irresistible aristocracy in every society, and, more than kings or emperors, exert an influence on mankind. Henry David Thoreau common-sense kings book If we respected only what is inevitable and has a right to be, music and poetry would resound along the streets. Henry David Thoreau streets inevitable ifs We should impart our courage and not our despair. Henry David Thoreau impart despair should Perhaps the facts most astounding and most real are never communicated by man to man. The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible and indescribable as the tints of morning or evening. It is a little star-dust caught, a segment of the rainbow which I have clutched. Henry David Thoreau stars real morning We are sometimes made aware of a kindness long passed, and realize that there have been times when our friends' thoughts of us were of so pure and lofty a character that they passed over us like the winds of heaven unnoticed; when they treated us not as what we were, but as what we aspired to be. Henry David Thoreau real-friends kindness character A Friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. Henry David Thoreau appreciate pay compliment I do not know how to distinguish between waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the life that we imagine we are? Henry David Thoreau dream life funny Begin where you are and such as you are, without aiming mainly to become of more worth, and with kindness aforethought, go about doing good. Henry David Thoreau doing-good where-you-are kindness Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written. Henry David Thoreau learning reading book A taste for the beautiful is most cultivated out of doors Henry David Thoreau taste doors beautiful Most men, even in this comparatively free country, through mere ignorance and mistake, are so occupied with the factitious cares and superfluously coarse labors of life that its finer fruits cannot be plucked by them. Henry David Thoreau ignorance mistake country It is not that we love to be alone, but that we love to soar, and when we do soar, the company grows thinner and thinner until there is none at all. …We are not the less to aim at the summits though the multitude does not ascend them. Henry David Thoreau soar aim doe
