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Letter "H" » Henry David Thoreau Quotes
«Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Books,
Generations
| Keywords:
generations, inheritance, inheritances, treasured
«Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Thought
| Keywords:
create, Sculptor, sculptors, thought, want
«Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
abhorring, abhors, carelessness, filled, sufficient, to be filled, vacuum
«I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I have not lived.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Death and dying,
Life
| Keywords:
came, deliberately, discover, essential, facts, facts of life, front, fronted, fronts, have-not, Into the Woods, lived, out front, Teach, The Facts of Life, went, wished, woods
«The perception of beauty is a moral test.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
beauty, moral, perception, test
«If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Music,
Relationships
| Keywords:
away, companions, different, drummer, far, far and away, hears, hears a different drummer, however, keep away, keep pace, keep step, measured, music, pace, paced, paces, pacing, perhaps, step
«It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.»
«The true harvest of my life is intangible - a little star dust caught, a portion of the rainbow I have clutched»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
all star, a little, catch on, catch up with, caught, clutched, clutches, clutching, dust, dusted, dusting, Dust to Dust, harvest, harvested, harvesting, harvests, intangible, intangibles, little, Over the Rainbow, portion, portion out, rainbow, Rainbows, star, starred, starring, The Catch, The Rainbow, the true, True Life, true to life
«Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them all»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Books
| Keywords:
first book, may not
«Even trees do not die without a groan»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
die, even, groan, groaned, trees
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