The best Quotes by Henry David Thoreau

The best Quotes by Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817 - May 6, 1862) was an American naturalist, essayist, poet, and philosopher. A leading transcendentalist, he is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay "Civil Disobedience", an argument for disobedience to an unjust state.

I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.
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Truths and roses have thorns about them.
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Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
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Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.
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You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
There are two seasons when the leaves are in their glory, their green and perfect youth in June and this their ripe old age in October.
An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
The thinnest yellow light of November is more warming and exhilarating than any wine they tell of. The mite which November contributes becomes equal in value to the bounty of July.
In August, the large masses of berries, which, when in flower, had attracted many wild bees, gradually assumed their bright velvety crimson hue, and by their weight again bent down and broke their tender limbs.

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You're gonna like Massachusetts. It's very patriotic - perfect for a fresh start.
Georgia Miller in Ginny & Georgia - Season 1 Episode 1
I'm lucky to have been raised in the most beautiful place - Amherst, Massachusetts, state of my heart. I'm more patriotic to Massachusetts than to almost any place.
I will work my heart out to earn the trust of the people of Massachusetts.
The man in the White House is not the cause of what is broken, he is just the latest and most extreme symptom of what's gone wrong in America. A product of a rigged system that props up the rich and powerful and kicks dirt on everyone else.
Elizabeth Warren (as Senator of Massachusetts) - February 9, 2019
I went to Massachusetts to make a difference. I didn't go there to begin a political career running time and time again. I made a difference. I put in place the things I wanted to do.
Only a liberal senator from Massachusetts would say that a 49 percent increase in funding for education was not enough.
They say money can't buy happiness, but it can buy a flight to Massachusetts - and that's pretty much the same thing.
Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.
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You mean well, but leave me be
Yes, I'm alone, but I'm alone and free
Elsa in Frozen -
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Lies are comforting. Truth is painful.
Truth never wins, but its enemies cease to exist.
It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.
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A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.
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Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.
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I only make movies to finance my fishing.
The future is easy because it doesn't exist; but the past is painful because it lives forever.
Maybe the past is like an anchor holding us back. Maybe you have to let go of who you were, to become who you will be.
Carrie Bradshaw in Sex And The City - Season 5 Episode 1
Ich gehe langsam, aber ich gehe nie zurück.
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Without progress there will be stagnation and decay. There again, progress for progress's sake must be discouraged, for our tried and tested traditions often require no tinkering. A balance, then, between old and new, between permanence and change, between tradition and innovation.
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Peeta: "I would love to stop this moment, here and now, and live in it forever."
Suzanne Collins - Catching Fire
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Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment, until it becomes a memory.
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Saphira: "Live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesn't exist and never shall. There is only now."
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The future starts today, not tomorrow.
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October is a symphony of permanence and change.
October is crisp days and cold nights, a time to curl up around the dancing flames and sink into a good book.
If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance.
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Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January.
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You can't start over with a new life, but every morning you can start over with a new day.
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No matter how dark the night, morning always comes, and our journey begins anew.
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What the eye doesn't see and the mind doesn't know, doesn't exist.
Just as the eye was made to see colours, and the ear to hear sounds, so the human mind was made to understand.
How sad would be November if we had no knowledge of the spring.
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Fallen leaves lying on the grass in the November sun bring more happiness than the daffodils.
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I realise that it is August: the summer's last stand.
Sara Baume in A Line Made by Walking
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August is the border between summer and autumn; it is the most beautiful month I know.
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After all, you still need time to just sit there and take a look around.
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"Oh yes, time flies and before you know it you're old," said Pippi. "Come autumn I'll be ten, and I suppose I'll be past my prime then."
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It's real, Six. You can't get mad at a real ending. Some of them are ugly. It's the fake happily ever afters that should piss you off.
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