American naturalist, essayist, poet, and philosopher
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. – Henry David Thoreau
It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see. – Henry David Thoreau
Nature is slow, but sure; she works no faster than need be; she is the tortoise that wins the race by her perseverance. – Henry David Thoreau
Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it. – Henry David Thoreau
A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener. – Henry David Thoreau
Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads. – Henry David Thoreau
Never look back unless you are planning to go that way. – Henry David Thoreau
The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend. – Henry David Thoreau
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. – Henry David Thoreau
What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate. – Henry David Thoreau
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you’ve imagined. – Henry David Thoreau
In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood. – Henry David Thoreau
Our life is frittered away by detail…simplify, simplify, simplify! – Henry David Thoreau
I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that 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
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend. – Henry David Thoreau
We are born as innocents. We are polluted by advice. – Henry David Thoreau
Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it. – Henry David Thoreau
One must maintain a little bit of summer, even in the middle of winter. – Henry David Thoreau
A town is saved, not more by the righteous men in it than by the woods and swamps that surround it. – Henry David Thoreau
Nature is as well adapted to our weakness as to our strength. – Henry David Thoreau
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