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 The frontiers are not east or west, north or south, but wherever a man fronts a fact. Henry David Thoreau east courage men Many an object is not seen, though it falls within the range of our visual ray, because it does not come within the range of our intellectual ray. Henry David Thoreau vision intellectual fall Heaven might be defined as the place which men avoid. Henry David Thoreau spiritual men heaven Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only. Henry David Thoreau inequality superfluous wealth The best thing a man can do for his culture when he is rich is to endeavor to carry out those schemes which he entertained when he was poor Henry David Thoreau rich men culture The culture of the hop ... so analagous to the culture and uses of the grape, may afford a theme for future poets. Henry David Thoreau use beer culture It is not all books that are as dull as their readers. Henry David Thoreau reading self-esteem book How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends, that we might go and meet their ideal cousins. Henry David Thoreau cousin powerful friendship What wealth is it to have such friends that we cannot think of them without elevation! Henry David Thoreau real friendship thinking Friends will not only live in harmony, but in melody. Henry David Thoreau harmony real-friends real How can we expect a harvest of thought who have not had a seedtime of character? Henry David Thoreau harvest character Even the best things are not equal to their fame. Henry David Thoreau best-things equal fame In accumulating property for ourselves or our posterity, in founding a family or a state, or acquiring fame even, we are mortal; but in dealing with truth we are immortal, and need fear no change nor accident. Henry David Thoreau truth fear needs Rivers must have been the guides which conducted the footsteps of the first travelers. They are the constant lure, when they flow by our doors, to distant enterprise and adventure, and, by a natural impulse, the dwellers on their banks will at length accompany their currents to the lowlands of the globe, or explore at their invitation the interior of continents. Henry David Thoreau rivers doors adventure I wish to suggest that a man may be very industrious, and yet not spend his time well. There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living. All great enterprises are self-supporting. The poet, for instance, must sustain his body by his poetry, as a steam planing-mill feeds its boilers with the shavings it makes. You must get your living by loving. Henry David Thoreau hard-work men life It is dry, hazy June weather. We are more of the earth, farther from heaven these days. Henry David Thoreau june spring weather We saw men haying far off in the meadow, their heads waving like the grass which they cut. In the distance the wind seemed to bend all alike. Henry David Thoreau distance cutting humility The eye which can appreciate the naked and absolute beauty of a scientific truth is far more rare than that which is attracted by a moral one. Henry David Thoreau eye appreciation science My friend is one... who take me for what I am. Henry David Thoreau take-me cute friendship As for the pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many men could be found degraded enough to spend their lives constructing a tomb for some ambitious booby, whom it would have been wiser and manlier to have drowned in the Nile, and then given his body to the dogs. Henry David Thoreau dog men life
