14 Popular Quotes by Henry David Thoreau

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Quote from “A Week On The Concord And Merrimack Rivers (1849)”

My life has been the poem
I would have writ,
But I could not both live
and utter it.

Henry David Thoreau

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I stand in awe of my body

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Quote from “Letters To Various Persons (1865)”

I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual. It is surprising how contented one can be with nothing definite - only a sense of existence.

Henry David Thoreau

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Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

Henry David Thoreau

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It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.

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Friends... they cherish one anothers hopes. They are kind to one anothers dreams.

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

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It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

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Things do not change; we change.

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Truths and roses have thorns about them.

Henry David Thoreau

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