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Henry David Thoreau quotes

American essayist, poet and philosopher,1817-1862


We hate the kindness which we understand.

 

We feel at first as if some opportunities of kindness and sympathy were lost, but learn afterward that any pure grief is ample recompense for all. That is, if we are faithful. For a spent grief is but sympathy with the soul that disposes events, and is as natural as the resin of Arabian trees. Only nature has a right to grieve perpetually, for she only is innocent. Soon the ice will melt, and the blackbirds sing along the river which he frequented, as pleasantly as ever. The same everlasting serenity will appear in this face of God, and we will not be sorrowful, if he is not.

 

We can never have enough of nature. We must be refreshed by the sight of inexhaustible vigor, vast and titanic features, the sea-coast with its wrecks, the wilderness with its living and its decaying trees, the thunder-cloud, and the rain.

 

We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light.

 

Water is the only drink for a wise man.

 

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

 

Truths and roses have thorns about them.

 

We were born to succeed, not to fail.

 

It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?

 

The frontiers are not east or west, north or south, but wherever a man fronts a fact.

 


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