Henry David Thoreau Quotations

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What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
	- Henry David Thoreau	more quotations on [Society]

Every man is the builder of a Temple called his body, nor can he get off by hammering marble instead.
	- Henry David Thoreau	more quotations on [Body]

One cannot too soon forget his errors and misdemeanors; for to dwell upon them is to add to the offense.
	- Henry David Thoreau	more quotations on [Mistakes]

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
	- Henry David Thoreau	more quotations on [Time] [Opportunity]

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.
	- Henry David Thoreau	more quotations on [Time]

Sometimes, in a summer morning, having taken my accustomed bath, I sat in my sunny doorway from sunrise till noon, rapt in reverie.
	- Henry David Thoreau	more quotations on [Daydreaming]

Things do not change; we change.
	- Henry David Thoreau	more quotations on [Change]

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
	- Henry David Thoreau	more quotations on [Work]

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.
	- Henry David Thoreau	more quotations on [Virtue]

We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke strops our vice.
	- Henry David Thoreau	more quotations on [Virtue]

Good for the body is the work of the body, good for the soul the work of the soul, and good for either the work of the other.
	- Henry David Thoreau	more quotations on [Soul] [Body]

Men are born to succeed, not fail.
	- Henry David Thoreau	more quotations on [Failure] [Success]

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestioned ability of a man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
	- Henry David Thoreau	more quotations on [Ability]

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
	- Henry David Thoreau	more quotations on [Fishing]

I have received no more than one or two letters in my life that were worth the postage.
	- Henry David Thoreau	more quotations on [Letters]

It often happens that a man is more humanely related to a cat or dog than to any human being.
	- Henry David Thoreau	more quotations on [Animals]

The sun is but a morning star.
	- Henry David Thoreau	more quotations on [Morning]

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