Henry David Thoreau

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328 Quotes

Jika telah membangun istana yang menggantung di udara, upaya Anda itu tidak sia-sia, tinggal buat saja fondasi di bawahnya.

There is no just and serene criticism as yet.

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

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.

Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.

The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?

Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.

Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed... Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.

An unclean person is universally a slothful one.

If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.

The perception of beauty is a moral test.

Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution.

No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.

A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.

When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.

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