" We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character. "

Henry David Thoreau US Transcendentalist author (1817 – 1862)

" It takes two to speak the truth–one to speak and the other to hear. "

Henry David Thoreau US Transcendentalist author (1817 – 1862)

" The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. "

Henry David Thoreau, “Walden”, 1854 US Transcendentalist author (1817 – 1862)

" Cultivate the habit of early rising. It is unwise to keep the head long on a level with the feet. "

Henry David Thoreau US Transcendentalist author (1817 – 1862)

" It is never too late to give up your prejudices. "

Henry David Thoreau US Transcendentalist author (1817 – 1862)

" What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us. "

Henry David Thoreau US Transcendentalist author (1817 – 1862)

" All good things are wild, and free. "

Henry David Thoreau US Transcendentalist author (1817 – 1862)

" In wildness is the preservation of the world. "

Henry David Thoreau, Walking (1862) US Transcendentalist author (1817 – 1862)

" Water is the only drink for a wise man. "

Henry David Thoreau US Transcendentalist author (1817 – 1862)

" I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestioned ability of a man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor. "

Henry David Thoreau US Transcendentalist author (1817 – 1862)

" 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 he hears, how ever measured or far away. "

Henry David Thoreau US Transcendentalist author (1817 – 1862)

" We falsely attribute to men a determined character – putting together all their yesterdays – and averaging them – we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support – it is worse than a large family – he is the silent poor indeed. "

Henry David Thoreau US Transcendentalist author (1817 – 1862)

" I stand in awe of my body. "

Henry David Thoreau US Transcendentalist author (1817 – 1862)

" Thank God men cannot as yet fly and lay waste the sky as well as the earth! "

Henry David Thoreau US Transcendentalist author (1817 – 1862)

" Man is the artificer of his own happiness. "

Henry David Thoreau, Journal, January 21, 1838 US Transcendentalist author (1817 – 1862)

" The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly. "

Henry David Thoreau, Walden, Chapter 1: Economy US Transcendentalist author (1817 – 1862)

" Say what you have to say, not what you ought. any truth is better than make-Believe! "

Henry David Thoreau, Simplify Simplify US Transcendentalist author (1817 – 1862)

" Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it. "

Henry David Thoreau US Transcendentalist author (1817 – 1862)

" I have learned this at least by my experiment: 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. "

Henry David Thoreau US Transcendentalist author (1817 – 1862)

" However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are the richest. "

Henry David Thoreau US Transcendentalist author (1817 – 1862)

" I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestioned ability of a man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor. "

Henry David Thoreau US Transcendentalist author (1817 – 1862)

" All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy. "

Henry David Thoreau US Transcendentalist author (1817 – 1862)

" Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. "

Henry David Thoreau US Transcendentalist author (1817 – 1862)

" Heroes are often the most ordinary of men. "

Henry David Thoreau US Transcendentalist author (1817 – 1862)

" Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else. "

Henry David Thoreau, Vol. 2, p.318 Houghton Mifflin US Transcendentalist author (1817 – 1862)

" Good poetry seems too simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder that all men are not always poets. Poetry is nothing but healthy speech. "

Henry David Thoreau US Transcendentalist author (1817 – 1862)

" Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? 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. "

Henry David Thoreau, “Walden” US Transcendentalist author (1817 – 1862)

" Thank God men cannot as yet fly and lay waste the sky as well as the earth. "

Henry David Thoreau, Jan. 3, 1861 US Transcendentalist author (1817 – 1862)

" Voting for the right is doing nothing for it. "

Henry David Thoreau, “An Essay on Civil Disobedience,” 1849. US Transcendentalist author (1817 – 1862)

" My friend is one… who take me for what I am. "

Henry David Thoreau US Transcendentalist author (1817 – 1862)

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