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

Henry David Thoreau US Transcendentalist author (1817 – 1862)

" I do not propose to write an ode to dejection, but to brag as lustily as chanticleer in the morning, standing on his roost, if only to wake his neighbours up. "

Henry David Thoreau, Walden; Where I Lived, And What I Lived For US Transcendentalist author (1817 – 1862)

" Must be out-of-doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life "

Henry David Thoreau US Transcendentalist author (1817 – 1862)

" I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes. "

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

" The cost of a thing is the amount of what I call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run. "

Henry David Thoreau US Transcendentalist author (1817 – 1862)

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

Henry David Thoreau US Transcendentalist author (1817 – 1862)

" As if there were safety in stupidity alone. "

Henry David Thoreau US Transcendentalist author (1817 – 1862)

" Things do not change; we change. "

Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1970) US Transcendentalist author (1817 – 1862)

" I have lived some thirty years on this planet and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors. "

Henry David Thoreau US Transcendentalist author (1817 – 1862)

" We must have infinite faith in each other. If we have not, we must never let it leak out that we have not. "

Henry David Thoreau US Transcendentalist author (1817 – 1862)

" It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things. "

Henry David Thoreau US Transcendentalist author (1817 – 1862)

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

Henry David Thoreau US Transcendentalist author (1817 – 1862)

" I came into this world, not chiefly to make this a good place to live in, but to live in it, be it good or bad. "

Henry David Thoreau, “Resistance to Civil Government” US Transcendentalist author (1817 – 1862)

" Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around. "

Henry David Thoreau US Transcendentalist author (1817 – 1862)

" Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk. "

Henry David Thoreau US Transcendentalist author (1817 – 1862)

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

Henry David Thoreau US Transcendentalist author (1817 – 1862)

" The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready. "

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

" Many go fishing without knowing it is fish they are after. "

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

" Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without. "

Henry David Thoreau, Wednesday, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers US Transcendentalist author (1817 – 1862)

" How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live. "

Henry David Thoreau US Transcendentalist author (1817 – 1862)

" I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well. "

Henry David Thoreau, Walden, Economy. US Transcendentalist author (1817 – 1862)

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

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

" It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes. "

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

" As if you could kill time without injuring eternity. "

Henry David Thoreau US Transcendentalist author (1817 – 1862)

" Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify. "

Henry David Thoreau US Transcendentalist author (1817 – 1862)

" A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend. "

Henry David Thoreau US Transcendentalist author (1817 – 1862)

" If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. "

Henry David Thoreau US Transcendentalist author (1817 – 1862)

" I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn. "

Henry David Thoreau US Transcendentalist author (1817 – 1862)

" Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed in them. "

Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Economy, 1854 US Transcendentalist author (1817 – 1862)

" I derive no pleasure from talking with a young woman simply because she has regular features. "

Henry David Thoreau US Transcendentalist author (1817 – 1862)

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